ExBlend deblender - v1.04 - 18 Dec 2018

[kedautinh12]

Thank Stainroid for create a very good plugin and waiting for a new script from flossy_cake

[flossy_cake]

Originally Posted by kedautinh12

Thank Stainroid for create a very good plugin

Stainroid?!

[kedautinh12]

He's like chatGPT for avisynth

[flossy_cake]

Originally Posted by kedautinh12

He's like chatGPT for avisynth

Oh you mean StainDROID as in android. StainROID on the other hand sounds like roid stain which is something else

Originally Posted by flossy_cake

Case study: Mad About You DVD Region 1 by Mill Creek Entertainment
Mill Creek strikes again!
ExBlend to the rescue...

In case anyone benefits from it I've manually inspected all 164 episodes to compile a list of which ones need repairing and here is that list...

Season 1&2
  No defects, can be TIVTC'd as usual with optional decombing
	
Season 3&4	
  Repair with ExBlend:
  ExBlend(mode=0, lockthresh=0.0, ithresh=3.0, show=0).Prefetch(1).Preroll(8)
  TDecimate(mode=1, CycleR=1, Cycle=5, denoise=true).Prefetch(1)
  QTGMC(InputType=1, preset="slow", Rep0=13, Sharpness=0.0).Prefetch(4)
  Spline36Resize(720, 540)
  ChangeFPS(60000,1001)
	
Season 5 E01-E12
  Only needs TDecimate from 30 to 24 with optional decombing 
 
Season 5 E13-E24
  Repair with vinverse + ExBlend:
  vinverse(sstr=0.25).Prefetch(1)
  ExBlend(mode=0, lockthresh=0.0, ithresh=3.0, show=0).Prefetch(1).Preroll(8)
  TDecimate(mode=1, CycleR=1, Cycle=5, denoise=true).Prefetch(1)
  QTGMC(InputType=1, preset="slow", Rep0=13, Sharpness=0.0).Prefetch(4)
  Spline36Resize(720, 540)
  ChangeFPS(60000,1001)

Season 6 E01-E12
  Same as season 3&4
 
Season 6 E13-E26
  Same as season 1&2, except E18 same as S05E13-E24

Season 7 E01-E05, E07, E15
  Same as season 1&2
  
Season 7 E06, E08-E14, E16-E22
  Same as season 3&4

edit: reduced QTGMC sharpness from default 1.0 to 0.0 as this show has
lots of baked-in sharpening which seems to be interacting with QTGMC's
sharpener to make it look more sharp than usual.

What a disgusting mess made by Mill Creek Entertainment, and what an incredible feat of reverse engineering to salvage it. Is Mill Creek enshittification?