RM-MPEG Quality sucks more?

[ShadowRider]

I just used EO video to convert one of my real media movies into MPEG with the following settings

352 x 288 and 25 fps constant bitrate 1150 kbit/s, under Audio select MPEG layer2, Stereo and 224 kbit/s.

The sound is alright, but the picture is horrible just blurry, even worse than the RM one. Is there anyway to get rid the the blur?

[BJ_M]

you are re-compressing a really bad lossy compression with another type of compression @ a low bit rate -- it certainly is not going to look the same ..

[ShadowRider]

How should I compress it for it to look better, or at lease not worse?

[ShadowRider]

What settings should I put it as?

[kitty]

You can try to convert to a higher res MPEG and then downconvert but it probably won't help. Like they said before RM is very lossy so conversion will probably not be very good.

[graemee]

Try filters in TMPGENC

You will find the filters in tmpgenc under the MPEG setting -> ADVANCED
They are a series of check boxes, double click a filter's name to load the settings screen. I use the sharpen fillter in tmpgenc to sharpen the picture & use the colour correction filters if the colours are washed. I use ~40 on both settings for the sharpen filter. The noise reduction filter does the bulk of the work for me in removing artifacts and smoothing, 80,3,80 are the settings. (I use the above settings for animation) Experiment with other sources, 12,1,12 is good for video.


OR

Try encodig to MPEG1 and use the SOFTEN BLOCKS @35 under the QUANTIZE MATRIX tab. This removes most artifacts in MPEG1 @1150 bitrate. This is what I think your problem is.