Frame Merger filter for virtualdub - Copyright 2002 Valentim Batista
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The author can be contacted at:
Valentim Batista
[email protected]
http://www.geocities.com/gc_timsara/
This filter was built to smooth temporally the picture (blending each frame with the previous one) in order to reduce noise,
artefacts and the bitrate needed to encode the stream.
Propagation sets that each frame is to be blended with either the previous filter input frame (propagation off) or
with the previous filter output frame (propagation on). The first frame is not blended.
Strengths equate to blending proportions: 1 - 12,5% / 87,5 %; 2 - 25% / 75%; 3 - 37,5% / 62,5%; 4 - 50% / 50%.
Propagation effect is visible in the following table showing input frame contributions values to the current
output frame with propagation off and propagation on respectively:
Valentim Batista 2002/04/03 - timsara at softhome dot net