Superb Xvid Encoding!

[jagarus]

I download an episode of Gundam Seed, and I was blown away by the quality of encoding in the episode!

The episode length was 23:52, and the resolution was 640x480. The sound is mp3.

Here is a small clip from the episode. - http://www.animepioneer.com/SeedTest.avi (right click, save).

How do I achieve the quality that is in this episode? I tried encoding in xvid, but the video comes in green blocks, and keeps fading between blocks and video.

What tools can I use? Is there a guide for these tools?


Any help will be greatly appreciated!

[SKD_Tech]

Movies/Episodes downloaded should be posted in the P2P forum:D

It's all about settings Bitrate and Resolution. There is no guide or settings that will give you perfect quality because all movies are different

[jagarus]

What about the blocky video I get?

[Batman]

What was the file size of the episode? Using a high bitrate and high resolution, and consequently, creating a huge file is no problem.

To avoid the green blocks you describe during playback, use FFDSHOW instead of the XVID codec to decode xvid content.

GKNOT/DVX can be used to encode to xvid. Guides at doom9.org will be helpful in this regard.

[jagarus]

The file size was 204 mb.

Where do I enable ffdshow?


btw, can I make an .mpg file into a dvd2avi project, so that I can encode in gknot?

[Batman]

Yes I think so. However, the doom9 guides or searching the forum there may give you a more definite answer. Virtualdubmod can also directly load mpeg-2/mpeg-1 files (though it may not be perfect and you may have to change the extension of an *.mpg mpeg-2 file to *.vob)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/

[jagarus]

ffdshow is not able to write to system32.:(

[Enchanter]

Originally posted by jagarus
How do I achieve the quality that is in this episode?
Using XviD with B-frames enabled (and no GMC, QPel or any other fancy tools), you should be able to achieve the same quality. You can improve sharpness by using an MPEG-custom matrix specially meant for CG/animation as well.

For decoding purposes, I find both Koepi's plain vanilla decoder and FFDShow to be excellent. The latter is highly recommended if the resulting clip suffers from some to heavy compression artifacts.

Where do I enable ffdshow?
Download and install FFDShow. Configure it to play XviD (and DivX, if you wish) contents. Don't forget to enable Post-processing as well.

btw, can I make an .mpg file into a dvd2avi project, so that I can encode in gknot?
Why bother?

For MPEG-1 files, simply load them into VirtualdubMod.
For MPEG-2 files, rename extension to VOB and load into VirtualdubMod.