Filters and such

[Turk]

I'm sure this has been covered before, but I can't seem to find it.
Am I stuck with what I got if I download a particular movie from
the NET. Simply put, I've downloaded some movies from the net,
and the majority of them have been of pretty good quality, but a
few need some work. Is it possbile to take these AVI's and VCD's
and put them into a piece of software and clean them up? Like
maybe brighten them up, put a little noise filter to clear up the
video. I've gotten a few that have sync problems, and I've ripped
out the audio and reset it, but are there things you can do with
the video?

TIA

[Baldrick]

You can't do much to improve the quality if the source is already heavily compressed, like divx,asf,mpg. You could play around with some filters in virtualdub or tmpgenc(under settings->advanced)...

[Turk]

Thanks Baldrick for the info. I ran across a filter guide on
the site, maybe I'll give that a look.

[SatStorm]

you can't do a lot of things with that source.
I suggest to try convert them to interlaced xSVCD with the same resolution/bitrate and also add the filter: Sharpen edge about 74 both.
That might give you a bit sharpness/colour correction on your TV ('couse our TV sets love interlace output)