KVCD: Choice of template?
I don't know if this has been addressed before, but I would be very interested in hearing everyone's input on what factors determine which template gives the best result. Here's some of my thoughts:
* Movie length, obviously * Amount of camera motion * Whether the movie is "slow" or "fast" * Sharpness of the source material I've not done enough encodes with kwag's templates yet, but I have a feeling that overall luminosity will also contribute to the decision. And from Resident Evil I took the lesson that metal surfaces are particularly prone to a lack of detail and so require more dithering. This in turn means less compressibility. Can anyone else add to this list, or confirm or deny my impressions regarding luminosity and metal? |
Oh yeah , here's what I have to say: :D
"The Princess Diaries", Full Screen version. That is a VERY hard movie to compress, because of the luma levels used. Even though it's a two hour movie, I was never able to put it in one CD-R with descent quality even at 352x240. I must try that again now, with the new techniques + LegalClip, etc. Still it's a very hard movie for the encoder. Then the other extreme is "The Others". That movie compressed to about 500MB before we had prediction :lol: And it looked great! Now that's a movie that is candidate for full 704x480 on a single CD-R, and will probably look like the original DVD 8) -kwag |
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Hi All,
KVCDx3 is also my favorite. It's smaller resolutions (528x480 vs 704x480) gives it greated compressibility and in high action scenes it exhibits less Gibbs effects. I use LBR for portable laptop and small screen TV (27" or less) and KVCDx3 for larger TV and HDTV (don't have one yet) :) It's sometimes a pain to encode two sets of the same movie, but with the new GOP there may be hope eventually to just create one for everything. :D -black prince |
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Actually, staircasing is worse at 480 than at 528 or 544 :wink: At least that's the reports I've read. The closer the numbers are to the original source ( 720 ), the less the staircase effect. Theoretically 8O -kwag |
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http://www.kvcd.net/forum/viewtopic....9a9ee93fc22aaa remember? :) |
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I encoded "Out cold" using SimpleResize at CQ 70 for 2 CDRs - very good quality, but the staircasing effect was quite strong when I watched it on the 'puter monitor...
I've missed your research results :D in the last months, so I've got one question on the x3 template: While encoding with Mpeg 2 "interlace" is enabled - does that lower the needed bitrate? |
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