[MEncoder-users] Removing strange noise around edges

[Fredrik Eriksson]

Rich Felker wrote:

>Checked, dotcrawl is the only problem I see. The telecine is perfectly
>normal and easily reversed with pullup or any of the other inverse
>telecine filters.
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>Rich
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yes, it's only the dotcrawl (thx for teaching me the correct term) I've 
had problem with.

pp=lb does help a bit, but also removes a lot of details and 
sharpness... It would be good if there was a way to tell mencoder to 
only use these filters on a specific range of frames (similar to the 
zones encoding option), that way all the video wouldn't need to be 
smoothed, only parts with lots of dotcrawl. Well, even if there is a way 
to do that which, from what I've read, there isn't, it would probably 
still require way too much work in this case, so I think I'll just take 
the advice and go find a encoding someone else has done, and pray that 
they havn't oversmoothed the video to remove the dotcrawl.

Fredrik