hi jackl,
I think what
Kwag was saying was.. that if you could have a closer
look in something like vdub and magnify a few frames while scanning
through them to see what the quality looks like ie, you may see some
blocks, or grainyness ect.
Ok, if we're talking about a DVD rip, then after you have created your
d2v file, open this same file in the new vdub 1.4.13 (build 1432

(this opens MPEG-2 files now) and then you can scan through your d2v
clips.
In the movie,
The One, I had SOO MANY PROBLEMS encoding the
scenes where they finally fight, and the scene where they fight in the
factory, and
The One pushes
The One into a pipe, and then
the sparks begin to fly..
Also, the scene where
The One walks through the sparks, you see
LOTS of macroblocks in that scene. Magnified, and scanned through both
those scenes revealed macroblocks all over the place - - on the DVD itself.
Would be nice, once scene is known, that one could set the bitrate a little
higher (or lower) and continue on..
-vhelp