Help to remove Blocks from CGI video

[SomeoneElse]

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone would help me with suggestions on how to remove the blocks from the following screenshot

Thanks!

http://www.picgoo.com/uploads7/source.png

http://www.picgoo.com/uploads7/source.png

[sh0dan]

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[Leak]

Originally posted by sh0dan
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Not sending a referrer helps; just copy and past the URL to your address bar, or just hit enter in the address bar if you've already got the error... :)

np: Manual - Inn (Until Tomorrow)

[sh0dan]

Thanks!

On the blocks... BlindPP, MipSmooth comes to mind...

[Mug Funky]

what type of source is this? if it's an mpeg-4 avi, then you can use ffdshow and directshowsource to postprocess it for you. this is useful because ffdshow would be aware of useful info from the stream, like quantizers and stuff.

btw, that show got me through my year 12 exams. that and Beavis and Butt-head :)

[SomeoneElse]

Originally posted by Mug Funky
what type of source is this? if it's an mpeg-4 avi, then you can use ffdshow and directshowsource to postprocess it for you. this is useful because ffdshow would be aware of useful info from the stream, like quantizers and stuff.


It`s a Divx Source.
Loading the file up in VirtualDub gives
Low Motion DivX MPEG-4 (Divx 3.11)
I will read up on ffdshow and directshowsource to figure out how to use them since I have never heard of them before.

sh0dan : I will also try what you suggest. Thanks!

[SomeoneElse]

The video is 496 * 368. What size should I resize it so it fits on my tv ?

Thanks!

[Mug Funky]

depends what playback hardware you have.

TV out from PC: it'll look just fine as it is
standalone MPEG-4 player: as above
DVD-Player: if it does SVCD, 480x480/576, if it does VCD, 352x240/288
DVD disc: 720x480/576 mpeg-2, 704x480/576 mpeg-2, 352x480/576 mpeg-2, 352x240/288 mpeg-1 are all acceptable.

[SomeoneElse]

Hi,
How would I go about using ffshow or directshowsource ? VDub seems to be using divx as the decompressor (got this from file information)

Thanks!

[Mug Funky]

to use ffdshow:

go here, get the latest build (the files are dated) and install it.

http://athos.leffe.dnsalias.com/

there are extensive postprocessing options in ffdshow, including avisynth processing on playback if you want it (there's config options that can be accessed either through a decent media player or the start menu under "ffdshow").

that should do it.

to use directshowsource in an avisynth script:

directshowsource("f:\gir\blah.avi")

:)

after that, hopefully avisynth will use ffdshow's postprocessing. as for Virtualdub showing that divx is used to decompress, that is simply because avisynth is returning yv12 colour to virtualdub, and it needs to get it into rgb for displaying. divx can do this (though i don't overly trust it). you can choose different codecs to do the yv12 conversion, but if you use "fast recompress" in virtualdub like you should, it doesn't matter what decompresses it, because it'll just feed your output codec with the yv12 it got from avisynth.

[Leak]

Originally posted by Mug Funky
to use ffdshow:

go here, get the latest build (the files are dated) and install it.

http://athos.leffe.dnsalias.com/


Actually, the newest ffdshow builds by athos can be found at the ffdshow project page on SourceForge:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ffdshow/?sort_by=date

np: Isan - Damil 85 (Clockwork Menagerie)

[SomeoneElse]

Hi,
Thanks for all the help guys. I did my first encode(using ffdshow and Mipsmooth) and it did remove the noticeable blocks on the scenes except the ones with fast motion. Any suggestions you can think of that I can play with ? If you need a sceencap. Let me know.

Thanks!

[Mug Funky]

cheers, leak :)