Smart Smoother HiQuality (2.11)

[tehpwner2]

Hi all, I am wondering if anyone has done their own tests on the Smart Smoother HiQuality (2.11) filter. In the past year I have found that the extra amount of time the filter adds on to the encoding process is well worth while with great results. However for about 4 months I have been absent from the xvid codec and I am struggling to remember the correct (best looking results) SmartSmoother settings and quant matrix for encodes of about 350mb (45 minutes of video). Could anyone shed some light on the subject?

[foxyshadis]

Considered replacing SSHQ with MipSmooth or TBilateral? They're what I switched to, since both are faster and cleaner (TBilateral has way too many options to configure manually, but it has a gui!). And for many uses, fft3dfilter. (They're better imho, others will say Dust, Deen, or C3D, but these are the ones I like best.)

I could tell you that I used SmoothHiQ(5,22,28,254,0) and varied the luma/chroma threshes a bit, but really, I haven't used it in quite some time now.

Oh, and probably eqm v3 LR for matrix. Possibly ULR or HR depending on video quality and size.

[tehpwner2]

Nice! Thanks, any idea where I could get my hands on a virtualdub version of the filters?

[Teegedeck]

Afraid not. You'll have to learn using AviSynth.

[tehpwner2]

I already know how I just find VirtualDub easier. Thanks again!