[MPlayer-users] Getting rid of banding/blocking artifacts in dark areas

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:54:18AM +0100, Ulrich Lukas wrote:
> In addition, I had to notice that this aspect of video quality looks
> much better when using a hardware codec ("full-featured" DVB card / PAL
> RGB output) and watching the same material on a CRT TV  instead of the
> computer's LCD.
> 
> 
> Is this because of the CRTs higher dynamic range or is there really a
> postprocessing method to filter out these artifacts/achieve soft
> transitions in dark areas of the video material?

Uh, not this is mostly due to TVs being really crappy and blurrying
everything very heavily. -vf hqdn3d might be able to simulate something
similar, but in my experience truly bad quality videos only look good on
TVs (and CRT monitors are not really better than LCD monitors).