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VCD: Dancing Blocks in the background and Artifacts around objects?

Hi all...

something is REALLY going wrong here... I don't know what happened, because I didn't change any settings at all... All my encodes right now produce far worse quality than I'm used to... even when I encode with a very high bitrate... I see dancing blocks in the backgrounds, and they are FAR bigger than they used to be... Also there are artifacts around objects. In fact those clips look just like when I first started with KVCD... That was in the very beginning... Could It be something with Dust? How can I check if my resolution is a multiple of 8? Any other ideas? this is really driving me mad! here's the code:

Code:

LoadPlugin("C:\Programme\DVD2SVCD\MPEG2DEC\MPEG2DEC.dll")

LoadPlugin("E:\MPEG-Tools\FitCD\dustv5.dll")

LoadPlugin("E:\MPEG-Tools\FitCD\legalclip.dll")

LoadPlugin("E:\MPEG-Tools\FitCD\sampler.dll")

LoadPlugin("E:\MPEG-Tools\FitCD\gripfit_preview.dll")

LoadPlugin("E:\MPEG-Tools\FitCD\convolution3d.dll")





Mpeg2Source("D:\A Beautiful Mind\beautifulmind.d2v")



LegalClip()



GripCrop( 544, 576, overscan=2 )



GripSize()



FaeryDust()

Convolution3d(preset="movieHQ")



Gripborders()



LegalClip()



Sampler(length=24)

## MPEG size = ((Total frames/MovieTimeInMinutes)/24) * MPEG sample file size ##

I also tried using SpaceDust and TemporalCleaner, but no change... I'm not sure about this, but I think that the filesize of my samples also increased drastically for a given CQ since my last encode... I might be getting paranoid though...
well any help is much appreciated

Now I noticed something that might be of interest... In the preview window of TMPGEnc, I also see those big blocks in the background... and there seem to be weird video-bugs too... I don't know how to describe this, but it seems that in some areas the color has changed to completely black where it shouldn't be black... :cry: this is making me really mad...

Edit: Forget the video-bug I was talking about... that was caused by having DVD2AVI activated in the background... when I closed that the video bug thing was gone... still I see those huge blocks in the preview window... I can't believe that this is on the DVD... there must be something weird going on here...

Ok, I've been trying to fix this all day now... I don't know anything else to try... If somebody could tell me where I can upload a sample, so that you guys can see what my problem is, i would be very thankful...

I'm really frustrated right now, and still it might be that there's an easy solution for this... :cry: :angryfire:

Have you tried changing your MPEG2DEC.dll :idea: :idea:

yes I downloaded the newest version although I didn't change it... :cry:
might be that "A Beautiful Mind" is just a VERY bad authored DVD... but the same thing happened to me when I encoded "Murder By Numbers" just yesterday... I doN't know... I'll probably go and drink a beer about it... any more help is much appreciated... :?