HD Question

gurusan · 25 May 2008 at 22:45

I often watch 720p and 1080p rips and although the quality is of course amazing...things are "grainy" at times.

Is there any remedy for this? Some sort of noise filter should be possible, it's just that I don't think the processors of today are able to do that sort of work.

Using MPC-HC + ffdshow

lord filbuster · 25 May 2008 at 22:55

The grain is part of the film! But, if you want to get rid of it, open ffdshow, go to the avisynth section, and put "undot()" in the white box (no quotes) and put a tick in the avisynth box. This is a very weak noise reduction routine, so it will remove some of the grain, and keep as much of the details as possible. i wouldn't use stronger noise reduction, it would just make the picture look a bit blurry, and, well crap tbh. If the noise is coming from a bad encode, there won't be any way to get rid of it without sacrificing the picture quality, it would probably just end up worse.

gurusan · 25 May 2008 at 23:05

cool beans

thanks for the tip

AbsenceJam · 26 May 2008 at 08:45

Grain is fantastic and the x264 developers and users of the encoder work damn hard to preserve it. It's how films are supposed to look!

Bunko · 26 May 2008 at 13:19

AbsenceJam said:
Grain is fantastic and the x264 developers and users of the encoder work damn hard to preserve it. It's how films are supposed to look!

Agreed, watch how the director intended

dave-lew99 · 26 May 2008 at 14:10

Maybe not intent....

It depends how good the film stock was that they used - on big budget then it's likely to be intent, on lower budget films then it may just be that way because thats all they could get hold of.

Blade Runner looks fantastic in HD, the details is incredible.