don't judge me just yet!

This wasn't ment to an example of kdvd capabilities. I just wanted to have all movies on one disc for convenience.

Total runtime: about 8 hours 40 minutes
Audio: 160kbit Stereo (no chance keeping the original 5.1 track)
Vid bitrate: HCenc @ Q6,36
Resolution: 352x576
Script: MA+shit
Total size: 4,3gb (original over 20 gigs)

Results ain't dvd quality (surprise!) but looks good enough on my shitty 28" tv.

can you post any screenshots for our reference ???

You're right. That's not so bad at all !

looks decent enough, HCenc has really improved in the latest version (0.20) on the quality factor and for low BR.

Version 0.19 was used with those though....

Ops! I assumed

Well it's 1000 Kbps video encoding with 320*416 real resolution -> imply 3100 Kbps for 720*576 real resolution with the same bits/pixel.

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Less than this because 720*576 is the frame resolution, not the image one (the LOTR are in widescreen). Or else you have to compare it with 352x576 and not 320x416.

Nevertheless I don't understand your point : are you saying that it's normal that the reslut is not so bad as 3100 is yet a decent bitrate to do encodes ?

I speak about only real image here.


Yes 3100 Kbps is a good bitrate for 720*576 resolution: with medium compressibility source, quality will be always good if you use a good MPEG2 encoder.

If you want comparison:
- Professional MPEG2 encoding use 4-6 Mbps for 720*576
720*576 for real image: 0.38 - 0.57 bpf
720*416 for real image: 0.53 - 0.80 bpf
- This example use 1 Mbps for 352*576
320*416 for real image: 0.30 bpf

It's 20 GB -> 4 GB converstion for size but ratio for bpf is not 1:5 but only 1:2. In fact for bpf this encoding is simply like backup convertion at 50% and use certainely the same average quantizer ...

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