[MPlayer-users] Why do rental/bought DVDs look so bad?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 03 March 2007 at 00:15, James Rowlett wrote:
> Hi,
> I hope you guys don't mind that this is not really a mplayer question,
> but I don't know where else to ask.
> There is no point in transcoding using mencoder if source is no good.
> I live in the UK.
> All DVD's I have rented recently, the discs look fine (no scratches), 
> when I play them I can clearly see snow (not white, but scatrerd pixels
> of an off color). It is very visible to my eye.
> If I pause the picture, the picture is steady, with a scattering of 
> 'snow' pixels.

Try -vf hqdn3d with various parameters to get rid of the noise.

Regards,
R.

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