macroblocks on nandub

[machineinathens]

Finally I have created a divx that doesn't have macro blocks around (outside) the individuals head or body. The fast motion looks pretty good and clean, however the one problem I am having is that macroblocks are now appearing within faces and large areas of black.

Faces have detail, but it appears that the macroblocks cause alittle face/body distortion.

The black areas are the same?

Any ideas on which settings should be adjusted.

Thx (especially those who have helped me up to this point)

[Enchanter]

Try increasing your bitrate, your minimum allowed bitrate, curve compression, or/and the min. gauge.

[machineinathens]

Thx for the help enchanter. I didn't want to make the movie onto two cds, but I eventually had to break down.

Increasing my bite rate was really the only way to remove them. Thx again.

The copy looks great!!!

Machine

[Enchanter]

No problem.

If the movie is mainly a fast-action type, it's really hard to make do with low bitrate. Anyway, glad to help. ^_^

[techno]

NO no no!

use fast motion 6000 bitrate cause it will fit on one cd (depending on the length of file)

it doesn't use 6000 in every scene/frame. It uses as much as it needs in every scence/frame to a max of 6000.

This should work cause I get near DVD quality on my vids using fast motion (captured source from TV channels)

Techno

[Enchanter]

From my experiences with fast-motion, a lot of detail is lost (as I stated in another post) and the result does not look crisp to me. Could be just me anyway.

I would personally use Low-motion anyway.

[benderman]

Use DivX-Low-motion because it gives moire details. For the blocks in big areas with low contrast (like the large areas of black) you should use a good player like sasami2k (<- the best player I know) or "The Playa". They have options to increase the video-quality. It takes a little of the cpu-power, but if you don't have a real low-end-machine it should work fine.

[techno]

Very true but if the source is VERY high quality then you will not lose detail. I have done it all the time and it works like a charm and also compressing the size at the same time!

ftp.imbetterthanyou.com/pub/incoming/techno/lb-my_way.mpg

MPEG2 = 72.2 then try compressing it with fast motion. See what results you get!

Techno