MeGui and Deblocking Xvid

[Somewhat Damaged]

I recently started ripping and encoding video for my Creative Zen Vision M using Megui. One of the things I noticed and researched on this forum is the blocking that occurs in both Xvid and X264 for dark/low contrast areas. From what I have read my problem appears to be related to the LCD screen the ZVM uses and not my encoding settings (Q2 and VHQ4) as the video plays fine on my computer (ffdshow [rev. 2543]). I didn't see any settings in MeGui that deal with this issue and I am seeking advice from all of you on how to configure AviSynth Creator (?) to fix this. Help!

[Doom9]

You have mpeg2 deblocking in the Filters tab of the avisynth script creator.. that works on the input but with mpeg4 asp that's all you can do. You could lay your own deblocking avisynth filter on top of that by configuring a new filter via the avisynth profiles, but in the end, if the output has blocks and your playback device has no deblocking (with pc playback, deblocking is by default turned on in most playback filters) the only thing you can do to prevent them from showing up is make sure the output has none.. which means smoothing the video enough.. the resize filter and quantizer matrix also play a role.. h.263 is less crisp, and bilinear resizing as well.. all that turns down blocking on the output but also makes the source less crisp.