Soften block noise: Are there tradeoffs?

[jase]

Hey,

Anyone know what the trade-offs of using this would be?

The reason I ask, is that I'm thinking of just turning it on for some DV .avi video I am converting, although I have yet to see it make any difference anyhow.
I tried a few samples, with this turned off and then on (both set at 44) and to tell the truth couldn't notice any difference. I figured well I might as well use it... but any reason why I shouldn't?


Cheers

J

[John Doe]

Try it again with them both set to 100 MPEG1 will look a little fuzzy compaired it's source. Dunno about MPEG2 since i never use it. Could also take a little longer to encode the file, but have never test timed it.