Mouse Hunt-1997-in H.264 By Winker Better -

Released in 1997 as DreamWorks Pictures' first family feature, Mouse Hunt

On raw DVD MPEG-2, the mouse looked "smooth" and disconnected from the grainy film stock. By using H.264, Winker was able to apply adaptive quantization. Essentially, his encode lowers the compression on the film grain (preserving the gritty reality of the mansion) but slightly raises compression on the CGI mouse to smooth out the jagged edges of the 1997 rendering software. It unifies the visual language of the film better than the studio release did. MOUSE HUNT-1997-IN H.264 BY WINKER

, possibly an H.264 version credited to an encoder or release group named Released in 1997 as DreamWorks Pictures' first family

Without giving too much away, the resolution of the "war" is one of the most creative and wholesome pivots in 90s cinema. Technical Legacy: From VHS to H.264 It unifies the visual language of the film