Hi kwag:


Last night I encoded a 72 minutes movie, and this morning, when I checked the file it was over 1.1 G. Then the rosary of errors started to take place:

1.- Thinking that everything was OK, I closed CQmatic, without saving the log.
2.- Then, I said to myself: You have not changed any of the settings at all, therefor you can go back and rerun CQmatic in prediction only mode, and I did. BUT I did not change the output file name, and the new prediction erased my 1.1 Gig file, so now, I do not have the encoded file. Live and learn. But I have the npr files and the new log.
The CQmatic .tpr file is telling me that it encoded the file at a CQ of 80.92
While the log run this morning, is telling me:
Which is saying 81.09.

The second problem that I had, is that the Mpeg file was horizontally stretched. The film that I was backing up had a ratio of 4:3, but when I used such ratio I had the stretched output, this was resolved by setting Tmpenc to 16:9 ratio. (I had experimented with and without gripfit, without grip fit I had script errors, perhaps because I did not know where to place the border line).

Thanks for your help Kwag

P.S>- I have not tried the new version, I will do that after lunch

That's JPEG compression quality setting. Not MPEG On the last run, the CQ to be used will actually be Last CQ = 80.924927 because last is actually the "Current", and the last "Current" never did execute

-kwag

Hi kwag:
Thank you for the explanation regarding current and current CQs
I followed your advise, and downloaded tha latest version, and the results were completely different to the one I received in my previous prediction.

Using v 1.0-RC 5, I had the following:

but now, using the same parameters, as far as avs and tmpgsettings, the log is given me this:

Now, I am afraid to encode because if at CQ8o+, the file was over 1.1Giga, then with a CQ of 90 (Am I reading this log correct?), the file size would be bigger)

Thanks

Totonho03

Hi totonho03,

What is your source
What I can't understand is how it's possible that even at CQ=80, a 72 minute movie can make a file over 1GB in size
This doesn't make sense at all
If I take a 528x480 2 hour movie, and I set CQ to 80, then "maybe" I get a 1GB size. But not even at 704x480 CQ=80 you get a 72 minute movie to that size
There's something wrong in your encoder settings or elsewhere

What is your MIN bitrate and your MAX bitrate set to

-kwag

Hello kwag:

Thank you for your response. Here are the answers to your questions:
The source is a decrypted dvd.
You may very well be correct in this ascertion. I used dvd2avi and the d2v file was used in moviestacker, which is where I found the lenght and the average bit rate of the film.
The encoder settings are as follow:

KVCD-CQ-352x480-_NTSC 120 min .Film_-PLUS
Stream type: Mpeg-1
Size= 352X40; Aspect ratio: 16:9. 525 lines (Output is not stretched with this setting); Frame rate= 29.97 fps
Constant quality= (CQ) - Using Motion estimate search;
Max bit rate= 2000; MIN bit rate 796
Source range is unchecked, and I have start frame at 0 and end at -1
Have saved the .tpr as text, and have not touched any other TMPGenc settings

I will do another test, actually will do 2 more tests, starting all over again from dvd2avi.......... One with Pinochio, and the other with another DVD.

Thanks

Totonho

P.S.- Please let me know if my settings are correct. Thanks again

Hi totonho03,

It might (still!) be a problem dealing with 29.97fps interlaced sources
I'm having problems predicting my "Styx" concert, which is VIDEO 29.97fps Interlaced.
I'm working specifically on this issue.

-kwag

Thanks kwag:

I will wait a bit before ending another one, but I will still try the on prediction mode only.
I will let you know how this turns out.

Regards

Totonho

Hello again:
Last night I started the prediction, using the latest program. The only thing that I did not re-do, is to convert the files from vob to d2v, but went from d2v to QCmatic, via Moviestacker and Tmpgenc.
Here is my log:
Please note that I found one setting that was incorrect, that is I was using interlace in Tmpg, in reality the setting should had been progressive. This was changed prior to running the prediction.

I have noticed something different with this new version, that is, the difference between QCs never goes below 1.11xxx, and the QC jumped from 72.90 to 90.

Regards

Totonho03

This happens because the last sample file size difference to the current sample was just so low, that I force a CQ change out of scale, so we don't stay in a long cycle trying to increase CQ in very small steps. This is a problem with TMPEG's internal CQ scale. It's not linear, and has some "null" segments where you can make a small change in the CQ value, but there's no file size difference. And of course, your movie is 352x240 and 72 minutes, so even at CQ=90, CQMatic couldn't get to the wanted file size, so it sets CQ=90 as the maximum limit. That was the problem right there
Encode your movie at CQ=90, and your file will fit on a CD, because it will never reach the wanted file size. Your final file size will be ~ ( Your Wanted / 1.084033 ) as seen from the last File size difference = 1.084033

-kwag

Thanks kwag:
So now all I need to do is to go to TMPgenc, and start the encoding with a CQ of 90. There is no need to go back to CQmatic and begin the encoding proces to encode Correct? Thanks again. Will do that later on today.

Totonho03

That's right
Just encode at CQ=90.

-kwag

Hello Kwag:

Last night I encoded the dvd at CQ 90, and ended up with a file of 1.255,032 Giga. I was using version 1.3. Will try it w/ version 1.4

Regards

Totonho

Edit.- I am not so sure of this, but I think that I found the problem:
On TMPGenc, under the Advanced tab, I was setting the video source type as progressive (Non interlaced); however, I was not checking the settings under the Video tab, which are grayed, and when I was redoing everything, I noticed that the encode mode, under the Video tab, was still still showing interlace mode. I changed it and is now reading non-interlaced. I will let you know the results of this test in an hour or so........

Hello Kwag:

I believe that I can finally say that CQmatic is working in my machine, I have not encoded it yet, but the prediction run with no problems, (well a small one, I was viewing Tmpgenc setting while it was encoding, and it did not like that at all, after I closed the settings window the prediction run smoothly).
After 6 iterations, the final CQ reads as follow:
And just to confirm it, I should encode the film at the last CQ number, which in this case is CQ 72.85, correct?
One last question here, I remember reading that if I were to use 23.xx, instead of the the 29.xx fps, I would not have a problem, Is this also correct?

Thank you for your help kwag, you have Job's patience...............

Totonho03