A system and method for mitigating motion artifacts in a media streaming network, wherein a scheme for facilitating adaptive post-decode (PD) filtering at a client device is provided. Extraction of still area grid information is effectuated at a source media processing node. Extracted still area grid information is multiplexed with audio/video components for appropriately signaling to downstream devices based on media containerization deployed for distribution. A client device is operative to select a suitable PD filter based on a plurality of selection criteria and apply the selected PD filter to the still area grids of the decoded image frames.