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NetSoerfer
10th October 2002, 13:28
Hi...

I was just encoding «The Crow», trying to achieve a quality as high as possible (which, I think, everyone does) and had to realize that I cannot do much more than playing around with the resolution and resizing options (bilinear/soft.../normal.../sharp bicubic) as I don't know about advanced options like TemporalSmoother and similar kinds.

So I started looking through the forum and found some hints, but the problem is, as I haven't found a thread like this, one can neither do a search that will lead to halfway satisfying results nor only look in threads that have promising subjects because those advanced options' explanations are almost always hidden in f'ups.

Well, I had the idea of asking the pros among you to post and evaluate your favorite ways to enhance the quality of a rip with external filters, or even better, all the possibilities you know and then evaluating them.

I hope noone considers this as a break of the rules as I HAVE done some searches. I simply think that it would be useful to many less experienced rippers if there was a thread that listed and evaluated all those techniques.

So, hopefully we will soon see a great compendium how to improve your rips' quality apart from the basics doom9 mentioned in his amazing tutorials.

NetSoerfer

theReal
10th October 2002, 16:00
The only filter I have found so far that can really improve movies (not just make a movie more compressible to fit on one CD, but to really improve the looks even when you're using a high bitrate) is convolution3d.

Search for the thread about convolution3d, you'll also find a download link there and some posts where people post a few different settings that have worked well for them.