Kdvd, mediastudio and mainconcept?
 

Anyone have any luck setting the user quantization correctly using the MainConcept MPEG Encoder (especially through Mediastudio Pro)?

I was able to set the non-intra-block matrix correctly, but the intra-block matrix looks like this (note the 16's):

8 16 16 22 26 27 29 34
16 16 16 26 27 29 34 37
16 16 18 27 29 34 37 38
22 26 27 31 36 37 38 40
26 27 29 36 39 38 40 48
27 29 34 37 38 40 48 58
29 34 37 38 40 48 58 69
34 37 38 40 48 58 69 79

I can't seem to get this setup right but I'm not sure that it makes that much of a difference. Any thoughts, comments or tips would be great.

Hi rogue203,

Welcome :)
It could be that the encoder is forcing the low frequency components of the matrix to a minimum value of 16. Maybe it doesn't like the "Notch" pattern on the KVCD matrix :lol:


-kwag

Thanks kwag, that's what I thought.

I don't know enough about the quantization settings to know if I'm asking a stupid question but do you think the differences between the kvcd template and the one that the MainConcept MPEG encoder will let me set should be significant?

I like the results through TMPGEnc but I've got a lot of encoding to do and the MainConcept encoder is about twice as fast (sometimes faster).

The difference should be huge, specially on low lit and dark scenes :)

-kwag

Thanks kwag, that's what I thought. Of course I had to try it anyway....