1. A method for reducing blocking artifacts at the boundary between adjacent blocks reconstructed from a frame of compressed video information that includes a prediction stage parameter with respect to at least one of the blocks, the method comprising: reconstructing the at least one block based on the prediction stage parameter; computing a residual error attribute from the reconstructed block; computing a filter strength value based on a baseline filter strength and at least one incremental value, the incremental value selected from a plurality of preset values based at least on one of the prediction stage parameter and residual error attribute associated with the at least one block; and filtering the boundary adjacent to the at least one block using the selected filter strength value.