A method for coding a video signal using hybrid coding, comprising: reducing temporal redundancy by block based motion compensated prediction in order to establish a prediction error signal; performing quantization on samples of the prediction error signal or on coefficients resulting from a transformation of the prediction error signal into the frequency domain to obtain quantized values, representing quantized samples or quantized coefficients respectively, wherein the error signal comprises macroblocks which are subdivided into a plurality of subblocks; and characterized in that the method comprises the following steps performed for each subblock: calculating a quantization efficiency as the efficiency for the quantized values of the subblock; setting all quantized values of the subblock to all zero and calculating a zero efficiency as a second efficiency for a quantization obtained by the setting of the quantized values to all zero; comparing the calculated quantization efficiency to the calculated zero efficiency; and maintaining, for further proceeding, the quantized values of the subblock prior to the setting of the quantized values to all zero if the calculated quantization efficiency is higher than the calculated zero efficiency, otherwise selecting, for further proceeding, the quantized values of the subblock set to all zero. reducing temporal redundancy by block based motion compensated prediction in order to establish a prediction error signal; performing quantization on samples of the prediction error signal or on coefficients resulting from a transformation of the prediction error signal into the frequency domain to obtain quantized values, representing quantized samples or quantized coefficients respectively, wherein the error signal comprises macroblocks which are subdivided into a plurality of subblocks; and characterized in that the method comprises the following steps performed for each subblock: calculating a quantization efficiency as the efficiency for the quantized values of the subblock; setting all quantized values of the subblock to all zero and calculating a zero efficiency as a second efficiency for a quantization obtained by the setting of the quantized values to all zero; comparing the calculated quantization efficiency to the calculated zero efficiency; and maintaining, for further proceeding, the quantized values of the subblock prior to the setting of the quantized values to all zero if the calculated quantization efficiency is higher than the calculated zero efficiency, otherwise selecting, for further proceeding, the quantized values of the subblock set to all zero. calculating a quantization efficiency as the efficiency for the quantized values of the subblock; setting all quantized values of the subblock to all zero and calculating a zero efficiency as a second efficiency for a quantization obtained by the setting of the quantized values to all zero; comparing the calculated quantization efficiency to the calculated zero efficiency; and maintaining, for further proceeding, the quantized values of the subblock prior to the setting of the quantized values to all zero if the calculated quantization efficiency is higher than the calculated zero efficiency, otherwise selecting, for further proceeding, the quantized values of the subblock set to all zero. <EOS>