[MEncoder-users] Removing strange noise around edges

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 03:43:06PM +0300, Phil Oleynik wrote:
> Fredrik Eriksson wrote:
> 
> >Rich Felker wrote:
> >
> >>The problem you're seeing is dotcrawl, and there is currently no
> >>filter in mplayer/mencoder to correct for it aside from blurring and
> >>heavy denoising. With telecined content it generally is possible to
> >>correct for this due to some degree of redundancy, but no one has
> >>written a filter for it yet. I'm considering doing so at some point in
> >>the future (since I need it for one of my own projects) but don't hold
> >>your breath..
> >>
> >>Rich
> >> 
> >>
> >OK. thx. that was what I wanted to know, I'm looking forward to see 
> >that filter, until then I guess that Inuyasha will have to stay on the 
> >dvds...
> >
> >Fredrik
> 
> Well, I have looked at mpg. The thing that stumbles me is awful 
> interlacing effects, when many
> birds fly, three phases are on the same frame. Birds are smashed 
> completely, it is seen even
> when video is running, not paused. Next time, when Inuyasha walks, three 
> phases are mixed
> together also. I do not know how to handle this. If there were two 
> phases mixed, pullup filter
> should work. But unfortunately I do not know how to handle three-field 
> composition.
> I have read a post by Rich Felker, so I hope such filter will appear 
> sometime.

I'll review the mpg file you posted too since it sounds like there
might be more problems here and maybe the one I addressed isn't the
one you care about most..

Rich