Any Way to "Clean Up" Blocky Digital Camera Video?

[ulTRAX]

When I don't have a camcorder handy I shoot video with my digital camera. In its "high quality" (sic) mode I believe it's something like 13fps and 640X480... and depending on how much motion there is to capture... the video can have lots of compression artifacts... usually it's macroblocking. The format is Quicktime.... file.mov. Not sure what format the lower quality setting is.

Not that I know how to use ffdshow yet... but I noticed a number of options to deal with blockiness.

How much can this video be fixed? Can I get it to 30fps? Is ffdshow the best tool? If so... given that I can't even find a a way to import a file yet... anyone know of any decent tutorials? If not the best tool... what is?

Thanks!

[anonymez]

avisynth would be your best bet-- you could try either avisynth plugins like deblock QED, or import via directshowsource and use ffdshow's pp

edit: posting a screenshot or two of said macroblocks may help

[ulTRAX]

avisynth would be your best bet-- you could try either avisynth plugins like deblock QED, or import via directshowsource and use ffdshow's pp

edit: posting a screenshot or two of said macroblocks may help

Thanks for responding. But since I can't even manage to integrate ffdshow into the Zoom Player... any thought of using a more difficult script-based program like avisynth is somewhat out of the question at this point.

I'll try to get some sceen shots.

[anonymez]

avisynth's learning curve isn't as steep as you might think ultrax :^)

in the meantime, to use ffdshow with any player, open up configuration, set 'raw video' to 'all supported'

[ulTRAX]

avisynth's learning curve isn't as steep as you might think ultrax :^)

in the meantime, to use ffdshow with any player, open up configuration, set 'raw video' to 'all supported'

I found several tutorials on ffdshow... and I followed all the instructions including the raw video. I can play DVDs in Zoom. I have the audio and video filters checked off to show up in the systray... but only the audio panel does... and even then about 50% of reboots. Maybe I need to reinstall.

As for a learning curve... I've just downloaded about 6 new programs the past few days trying first to convert Google gvi files so I could burn them to disk... and to fix the Quicktime videos. So while programs like ffdshow look fantastic, my brain hurts LOL.

[ulTRAX]

OK... I think I almost had FFDshown properly configuered in the Zoom Player the first time. It's just that it didn't show up viewing a Quicktime movie. As soon as I played a mpeg file... it was active. So is this another settings issue?