I've been playing around for sometime with the KVCDx3 templates with awesome results from my DVD rips! For these conversions i usually use a temporalsmoother(2,1) just in a hope to increase compression a little.
However, my TV captures (Wintv Go with analogue source using composite in) are proving a little more tricky and I just wanted to ask some questions about how best to apply the filters. I am capturing at 544x576 25fps PAL using huffyuv with AVI_IO and the btwincap drivers. The source seems fairly clean although the usual analgue noise is there. I found that these captures need a far higher bit rate to look good using about 30 mins per Cd. I've been using Fluxsmooth (15,15) and whilst the source now seems nice and clean - occasionaly, usually on peoples faces during motion, a funny strobing artifact is there. My main question therfore, is this due to the filter because i've not de-interlaced my source. Do the filters not work as well with the interlaced tv captures. If so - what deinterlacer should i use - i've tried bob() but it converts my source to 50fps. An example script i would use is:
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AviSource("D:\Captures\capture_2.00.avi")
ConvertToYUY2()
LegalClip()
FluxSmooth(temporal_threshold=15, spatial_threshold=15)
temporalsmoother(2,1)
LegalClip()
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Thanks for some great templates!
Jim