Can you get rid of ghosting?

[zanos]

I downloaded a divx file with a fairly high bitrate but still displays alot of ghosting in fast motion scenes. Framerate is 23.97. Field order is fine. I was looking to convert this to dvd mpeg but not if it looks like this. Is it possible to reduce or get rid of the ghosting cause I've tried a few methods with no effect.

[GKar]

Are you using an LCD display? If so, the response time on it may be too high and causing your ghosting.

[guns1inger]

if it's in the image after encoding then there is little you can do. It's like trying to remove motion blur - not going to happen.

[manono]

Hi-

Yes, there's a chance it could be your playback software or display causing it. Open it in VDubMod, find a scene with movement, and then advance a frame at a time. If you still see the ghosting, you may as well dump it.

It's strange that a 23.976fps AVI would exhibit ghosting, as that's Film framerate. If it ghosts, my guess is that it also plays jerky, from having been sourced from a 30fps interlaced, or perhaps a blended PAL to NTSC, DVD and Force FILMed in DGIndex, or IVTC'd, with a deinterlacer run over what was left.

Generally, when you have a blended/ghosted AVI, it's already been cropped and resized and nothing can be done to fix it.

[lordsmurf]

if it's in the image after encoding then there is little you can do. It's like trying to remove motion blur - not going to happen.

What he said.

[Soopafresh]

Try the VirtualDub Plugin called Exorcist -

http://republika.pl/voidon/virtualdub/exdocs/exorcist.html

[zanos]

Thanks to all for responding. I figured it as much. Was hoping there would be some chance of a fix.

[lordsmurf]

Try the VirtualDub Plugin called Exorcist -

http://republika.pl/voidon/virtualdub/exdocs/exorcist.html

Old page, zip is dead link.

Try this one:
http://republika.pl/voidon/virtualdub/index.html

Link to filter zip works fine.