In previous posts I had discussed that I'd had to force CBR in previous releases but would give VBR a try next time I encoded. I gave it a try and it does indeed work. I used -q 6 with no specification of bitrate (guess that defaults to 7500000 bps) and it used about 3/4 of the CD (140 minute video). Now while it does work, and I will continue using VBR since it does work and it appears I won't have to worry about having to specify a bitrate to fit on a DVD, I really can't tell the difference in quality between VBR and CBR. Now keep in mind I was using reasonably high rates (5000+) for CBR encoding, sometimes as low as 4500. But perhaps someone else could tell the difference or perhaps if I were to see a CBR and VBR side-by-side I could tell, but I think that speaks of the quality of the CBR capability in mpeg2enc :-)
Anyway, next time I'm going to use -q 5 and see how that goes. Any suggestions on a 'q' value? I noticed it defaults to 8. I'm not sure I can tell the difference between 8 and 6, but that's just me :-) BTW, ever since I started playing around with creating DVD's I've started to see defects on DirecTV I would have never noticed before. Scenes with a lot of 'fog' seem to really be problematic. My wife thinks I'm going insane...she couldn't see that it was 'blocky', but I guess I watch things with a different eye than I did before :-) I'd say 1.6.1.90 is a big improvement over 1.6.1. If I'd had it when I first started trying to make DVDs I probably wouldn't have wasted 40 of them before I got a combination that works (multiple that by the cost of DVD+R as well as the frustration I went through and perhaps you understand my resistance to giving something new a try ;-) But things are much improved now, and I'd guess I would have only burned a few coasters if I had to start from scratch today... -- Ray ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
