1. A video compression method for generating a compressed representation of input video, including the steps of: (a) temporally partitioning the input video into pulses, each of the pulses comprising at least two frames of the input video, and for each region of a spatial partition of a frame of each of the pulses, generating at least two different candidate blended pixel sets, at least one of the candidate blended pixel sets including at least one of a temporally blended pixel determined from at least two frames of the input video and a temporally and spatially blended pixel determined from at least two frames of the input video; and (b) for said each region of the spatial partition for each of the pulses, selecting one of the candidate blended pixel sets for inclusion in the compressed representation.