Re: [Mjpeg-users] gleam around letters and sharp edges

2003-03-11 Thread Richard Ellis
You are correct. MPEG at it's core is more or less a variant of still image jpeg, and the quantization stage of jpeg can produce a ringing effect due to what the real meaning of the quantization pass in the frequency domain. But in any case, the --keep-hf flag to mpeg2enc in my experience reduces

Re: [Mjpeg-users] gleam around letters and sharp edges

2003-03-11 Thread Steven Boswell II
It's my understanding that sharp transitions between light & dark areas are one of the hardest things for MPEG to encode accurately.  MPEG is designed for "natural" images (i.e. stuff recorded from real-world sources). Sounds like you had some success getting rid of it with yuvmedianfilter.  Keep u

Re: [Mjpeg-users] gleam around letters and sharp edges

2003-03-11 Thread Al Bogner
On Dienstag, 11. März 2003 19:42 Bernhard Praschinger wrote: > > I convert old VHS-C-PAL movies to XSVCD. A blue PC-created > > titel with a light background shows a blue gleam around the > > letters. Also I see at the edges of clothing a gleam. This > > gleam at sharp edges is on the original mo

Re: [Mjpeg-users] gleam around letters and sharp edges

2003-03-11 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo > I convert old VHS-C-PAL movies to XSVCD. A blue PC-created titel > with a light background shows a blue gleam around the letters. Also > I see at the edges of clothing a gleam. This gleam at sharp edges > is on the original movie too, but you can see no gleam around the > title with the a

[Mjpeg-users] gleam around letters and sharp edges

2003-03-11 Thread Al Bogner
I convert old VHS-C-PAL movies to XSVCD. A blue PC-created titel with a light background shows a blue gleam around the letters. Also I see at the edges of clothing a gleam. This gleam at sharp edges is on the original movie too, but you can see no gleam around the title with the avi-file. Afte