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Old 27th January 2010, 21:59   #24  |  Link
Caroliano
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Originally Posted by Digital Corpus View Post
@Asmodian: I have deblocking turned up dues to the nature of MPEG-2 video from my local networks. What is broadcast in my area always has some minor blocking issues and depending on which network I'm recording from, it can actually be pretty bad. That seems to be my optimal range from the tests I've done and it doesn't affect quality more than the visible macroblocks already present.
That is not the correct use for the in-loop deblocking filter of H.264. This deblocking filter is applied after the frame is encoded, and before the frame is used as reference, and is intended to fight only the new blocking created by the encoder.

The best you can do is to use and deblocking/denoising filter before the encoding, in order to feed a cleaner video to x264. And then lower a little your deblock, depending on your taste for bluriness vs noise.
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