OK. :) Faerydust works fine for me, so I'll stick with it. :D

That's right, and with very low values. Too high values makes "ghosting" in the image ( Trailing images ).

-kwag

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For a clean DVD-Rip DivX, what noise filter should I use (Space, Faery, Pixie, or Gold Dust)?

Also, on the optimal script it has a mergechorma and a mergeluma. What exactly do those do?

For DivX(XviD), I wouldn't go over FaeryDust.http://www.avisynth.org/index.php?page=Merge

-kwag

i´ve tried the newest script with several "types" of movies, action movies, dark movies, etc and compared it with the same script without STMedianFilter

In every try the movie without STMedianFilter had a better quality, than the on with STMedianFilter, although the cq value could be increased with STMedianFilter about 2-5

so my decision is to leave it out,
would like to hear about your results

Hi Kane,

Probably even lowering the values in the filter might still keep the file size down!, while maintaining better picture quality than with the current settings :idea:
Just keep the third and fourth parameters ( temporal section ) set to 0.
Only adjust the Spatial parameters.

-kwag

i´ll play a bit with this filter later, but i think i don´t like him and he doesn´t like me :wink:
picture with STM was always worse than without it

Gotta concur with Kane.

I use STmedian if I have to, but if I can complete an encode without it, I will. Detail does drop, although the 'compression gain vs. impact on quality' ratio is better than previous filters I've tried.

Got any new revelations for us, Kwag?

No, but if you two agree, then there's something wrong :) I'll do some tests by changing the spatial parameters, and see how they impact quality and file size :!:

-kwag

Hey, has anybody tried Addnoise/Blockbuster with the current script? I'll give it a shot.

What settings do you recommend, Kwag?

I'm currently using-

Blockbuster(method="noise", detail_min=1, detail_max=7, variance=0.3, seed=1)

i used blockbuster with current script (for vhs) with default settings, as they are set in moviestacker.
i had a piece of movie which was more noise and artifacts than movie.

did a great job

Coolness! Thx Kane!!