Chroma smoothing - help!

[Lyris]

It's in a strange YVU9 format which compresses the colours to a huge extent.

Played back in Windows Media Player, it looks like this:



But, when I load it into VirtualDub, it looks like this:



Now the important part - turning on chroma smoothing in VirtualDub doesn't get the video looking as good as it does in Media Player. It seems to smudge the colours a bit, but it doesn't correct the ugly blocking pattern that's present on the whites.

I need to know how I can get this using as good a chroma smoothing routine as my video card's hardware overlay does. Does anyone have any ideas?[/img]

[mikiem]

Just in general, how wmplayer displays your vid versus V/Dub might give you a place to start. Check properties in wmplayer to see what decoder it's using, or use Gspot to check possiblities on your system. Wmplayer is also probably de-interlacing, as your card's software display probably does.

'Nother possibility might be the way you're getting your avi into V/Dub (open direct, use DGIndex etc.?), or any processing (colorspace etc) to get it to V/Dub's filtering. Wouldn't hurt to give some data on the files you're working with.

[Lyris]

Thanks for the reply mikiem.

But, I've solved the problem. GSpot told me that there was no specific codec needed to decompress the file. So, I assumed that VirtualDub was using a routine of its own. Upgrading to the latest version of VirtualDub (I was using an older VirtualDubMod) gave results on-par with Media Player and removed the blockiness.

Problem solved!