Is there software that can increase the quality of a video

[peggypwr1]

Hello, I recorded a mucis video to my harddrive using WM recoirder. The stream is at 300K the highest available. The quality of the video is very bloacky. Is there any software that can increase the quality of the video or clean it up in any way? Thanks.

[Wile_E]

You can try using filters to smooth out blocks. But you will never get an increase in quality. The data is just not there. Tmpgenc has a filter to smooth blocks. You can also do this in Avisynth or VirtualDub.

[celtic_druid]

300K is not very high. Are you sure that you can't capture to something better?

[peggypwr1]

Unfortunately 300K is the highest availiable. The music video is from Yahoo Launch. Its Porno for Pyros "Pets". MTV online has a much higher quality, but the problem is I am not allowed to covert it to SVCD format b/c the Digital Rights Management won't let me, unless you folks know your way around it.

[lordsmurf]

You could just capture large blocks of time from MTV or MTV2 or VH-1 or MUCH and then look for it in an editor. I did that a while back to get a country music video I wanted, recorded about 3 discs each of about 4 hours long from CMT and about 9 videos into the first disc, there it was.

Pretty much anything you get online is going to look like trash. Filesize is more important than quality online.

[guns1inger]

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[raffie]

You could just capture large blocks of time from MTV or MTV2 or VH-1 or MUCH and then look for it in an editor. I did that a while back to get a country music video I wanted, recorded about 3 discs each of about 4 hours long from CMT and about 9 videos into the first disc, there it was.

Pretty much anything you get online is going to look like trash. Filesize is more important than quality online.

You're obviously not aware of the online music video scene that produces very high quality caps.

It's not because you haven't found it that it doesnt exist. The net is bigger than what you visit you know.

[lordsmurf]

What I see is XVID and other stuff that simply does not impress me. Nothing can beat a nice clean MPEG-2 recording off of cable or satellite. Well, except for studio produced work, and that clearly omits the Internet as well in most cases.

[raffie]

Music videos you find on the net are rarely MPEG-4 encoded (be it on websites, P2P, mIRC, ...), they used to be VCD quality but the last few years you wouldn't find much else then SVCD and VOB files, capped mostly from a digital source.

To the OP: I'd suggest you look for the video you have on either sources i mentioned, if you tell me the genre or the song perhaps I can give you a link or 2 you can check out. Trying to clean up a 300k WMV file frankly isn't worth the bother.

[peggypwr1]

The song is called "pets". The band is Porno for Pyros. Yahoo launch and MTV ae the only places I know of to get music vids, Im a noob.