Mpeg 4 oddities with aura around actors

Zorrander · 10th June 2006, 02:52

When I encode a movie into h.264 using any encoder I get a lot of instances where actors or other objects seem to have an aura of slightly offcolor pixels around them. This is really noticable in snow (naria) when the characters are moving. I normally use staxrip on the HD-Slow setting and accept all defaults beyond that... but I used to use mencoder and still got the same odd aura. Any ideas?

foxyshadis · 10th June 2006, 04:26

Screenshot or sample video of the effect, please, and the avisynth script that was generated by staxrip if possible. That will help determine exactly what you mean by halos (which can be a number of different things).

check · 10th June 2006, 06:43

Chances are the bitrate is too low, a screenshot will confirm this though.

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Zorrander Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 26	Mpeg 4 oddities with aura around actors When I encode a movie into h.264 using any encoder I get a lot of instances where actors or other objects seem to have an aura of slightly offcolor pixels around them. This is really noticable in snow (naria) when the characters are moving. I normally use staxrip on the HD-Slow setting and accept all defaults beyond that... but I used to use mencoder and still got the same odd aura. Any ideas?

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check phjbdpcrjlj2sb3h Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Western Australia Posts: 1,691	Chances are the bitrate is too low, a screenshot will confirm this though. __________________ CCCP \| MeWiki \| techouse's x264 builds \| Kovensky's mplayer builds

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foxyshadis Angel of Night Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Tangled in the silks Posts: 9,549	Screenshot or sample video of the effect, please, and the avisynth script that was generated by staxrip if possible. That will help determine exactly what you mean by halos (which can be a number of different things).