[MPlayer-users] encoding SVCD from divx avi

[Linards Ticmanis]

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Greg Trounson wrote:

> I keep seeing people recommending mpeg2enc for SVCD encoding.
>
> I've found mpeg2enc to be great for regular VCD encoding, but pretty
> much useless for SVCD.
> For a VBR format such as SVCD, mpeg2enc is severely limited, as it can
> only perform single-pass encoding.  If you want 2-pass, you're right out
> of luck.
>
> From experience, this gives either two options:
> - Waste a huge amount of potential bandwidth is relatively low motion
> scenes, cutting short the discs running time, or
> - Reduce the encoding quality to the point that the high motion scenes
> look like a blurry mess.

Well in my experience 2500 kbps is hardly ever too much, so if I make
standard SVCDs I never use VBR format. Especially "soft", low contrast
scenes (e.g. fog, night scenes, underwater) look pretty bad in VBR
encoding as the VBR "engines" always seem to think those scenes need
less bits than they do need. I've played around a bit with the
experimental h.264 (MPEG4 part 10) encoder and it's still got the same
problem... grrrr.

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Linards Ticmanis

 The Master said, "The business of laying on the colors follows the
preparation of the plain ground."




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