greatest quality?

[Thrawn]

hi
i was just wondering about a divx Video i downloaded in Morpheus: it s angel sanctuary 2/3, it has just 120 mb / 30 minutes and it is DVD quality (never seen such good work before)

how did he do that u think?
i have heard some guys make mpeg2 of it and do that several times. i tried it and TMpeg cant input the mpeg2 i made of it before (no codec limitations and vfapi plugin), perhaps i made wrong mpeg2 format (which one should i choose to get this working?)

[setarip]

"TMpeg cant input the mpeg2 i made of it before"

Did you make it in MPEG2 format (which TMPGEnc will accept) or MPEG2-SuperVideoCD format (which TMPGEnc will NOT accept)?

[benderman]

120MB per 30 minutes is really low if it ist really DVD-quality. It depends very much on the input-material. If it is very dark or very smooth it could be compressed much better.
Maybe the movie has also a lower framerate. If you reduce the framerate to the half this gives the double bitrate to every frame. Than use a high-quality-encoder like nandub with two-pass-mode and maybe you get the same quality and size.

PS: Half the framerate may look not so good with action movies, but a lot of cartoons are painted with only half the framerate and so the halfed framerate looks same as the full framerate.

[techno]

If TMPGENC can't open any MPEG2 files (without the VFAPI plug in) then download VOB filters, it will open MPEG2 files with audio!

re-encode the move in TMPGENC using the highest quality and CQ 95 with max bitrate of 9000 and brighten the picture up a bit. Then re-encode about 2-3 times then to DIVX 3.11alpha fast motion (or low motion)

works like I charm for me!

Techno