2 pass encoding serious problems!

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  • Baldur
    Junior Member
    Junior Member
    • Dec 2001
    • 12

    2 pass encoding serious problems!

    Hi everybody.
    I'm experiencing serious problems in encoding with divx 4.11 two passes method!
    I've got to compress a 112 minutes long movie, to put it on a single 700MB cd. I'm using wma V2 64Kbit/sec for the audio.
    That means that the final audio file will be exactly:
    8KB x (112x60)secs/1024 = 52.5 MByte
    so I have exactly 700-52.5=647.5 MByte of free space for my video file. Right?

    That means:
    647.5x1024x8=5304320 Kbits
    and then
    5304320/(112x60)=789,33 Kbit/sec

    Well, i used this settings, but the result was a 1,89Gbyte large file, without audio!
    Can someone help me? Thanx
  • SithUK
    Junior Member
    Junior Member
    • Dec 2001
    • 18

    #2
    Have you tried using a BitRate calculator? I don't believe you can use as simple formula as you have outlined to calculate a final Avi file size.

    Sith

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    • Baldur
      Junior Member
      Junior Member
      • Dec 2001
      • 12

      #3
      Though I don't believe that much in bitrate calculators, (due to the fact that DivX doesn't maintain a constant bitrate throughout the whole file), i used divx4 bitrate calculator v2.0, and it gave me a value of 809,77 Kbit sec, that's bigger than the one i used.
      So I don't think that was an error of bad formulas!!!
      A bit is just a bit! So if u use a simple formula, like I do, u'll have a value using which u should be able to obtain a file smaller than the size u want (divx is a VBR codec). So u can increase the value u obtain, by 10 or 20 bit/sec, and be sure it'll work right with one pass encoding!
      I think that mine is a problem of two pass settings!

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      • khp
        The Other
        • Nov 2001
        • 2161

        #4
        What tool did you use ?

        What settings did you use ? mQ, MQ, keyframe interval,,,
        Donate your idle CPU time for something usefull.
        http://folding.stanford.edu/

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        • Baldur
          Junior Member
          Junior Member
          • Dec 2001
          • 12

          #5
          800 Kbit/sec
          Maximum Keyframe interval 100 frame
          Maximum quantizer 12
          Minimum Quantizer 2

          Well, I went on tryin' and finally had a result near to what I needed.
          I have to say that probably the error was due to bad Xmpeg settings. So I did once more the second pass, and obtained a file 724 MB large, with audio. But that's still too much for a cd. And I obtained it using the same settings that gave me a 694MB large file with one pass encoding. So now my question is:
          when I do the 2 passes encoding, is it true that I shall use a value lower than the one I could use (for the same movie) doin' the single pass?
          Thanx everybody
          Last edited by Baldur; 9 Dec 2001, 08:07 PM.

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