Best settings for getting rid of blockiness in movies!!!

[Cr@zy8pe]

I am just wondering what is the best setting for getting rid block from a avi files. I'm using TMPGEnc to encode my movies so I'd appreciate settings based on the program, but all program setting are fine. My system specs, if needed, are as follows: Intel Pentium 4 1.4GHz, NVIDIA GeForce3 64MB AGP, Sound Blaster Live!, and a lot more :P

[BKL]

Don't know if you want to make VCD, SVCD, DVD or what, but if you haven't checked it out, go to www.hvcd.net for lots of good templates for TMPGenc.

[snowmoon]

I don't know what that site is I think he is refering to www.kvcd.net

My personal opinion is those template are not worth it if you are shooting to play it back on a DVD player as any veriance from the standards makes your .mpg less likley to be usable in any DVD player.

First calibrate your TV, many mpeg artifacts are blown out of perportion due to the artifical sharpness that most TV are set to. Blocks in shadow areas are probably from having the brightness too high.

If the problem is really with the .mpg you should reayy try and improve the source input to the encoder ( NR, higher resolution capture, ... ).

And no, there is no way of improving already encoded VCD or mpeg-4 without distroying the quality even further.

[LeeBear]

If the blocks are in the AVI file itself then it was probably encoded with too low of a bitrate and there really isn't anything you can do about that. If the blocks are only in your encoded MPEG the best thing to do is increase the bitrate if you can.

-LeeBear

[DanW]

You can look into making Xsvds (non compliant) The best way to do this is to see what bitrates your player can support, either by trial and error or by looking into the DVD player section over there on the left. Then do a multipass VBR encode using those values (either frameserve to CCE or use TMPGenc) I've gotten some much improved picture quality by just using a 5000 max 1000 avg 500 minimum bitrate encode. (this is the max and minimum my player seems to support)

[BKL]

Sorry, Snowmoon had the right URL - I can't seem to type or proofread either. The usefulness of the KVCD templates depends on your DVD player. Some players like them and some don't. If they work for you, then they are quite useful. Many forum members have used them. I like the KDVD template as it gives me good quality while producing a smaller filesize than I get with other encoding software I have tried.

[Cr@zy8pe]

First and formost I'd like to thank everyone who replied to my inquery, I really appreciate all the tips and advice that you have given me. Secondly I'd like to say sorry for not putting in my post to what format I would be converting to, so I say it now. I am wanting to convert AVI's to XVCD's, I can't do SVCD's 'cause my player doesn't support them, but it does support XVCD, and since XVCD allows a bigger bitrate I'd like to encode into that format. Thanks again for all your help, and keep those posts coming.