KVCD: Superbit success!
I've experimented with encoding the Superbit version of Bram Stoker's Dracula, and the results are simply awesome! It's the NTSC version of the movie (don't know if they do Superbit for PAL...?) and with CQMatic and a slightly modified MA script I got a CQ of 63,21. The audio is calculated as 128 kbps dual channel (of course! 8) ). That's not bad at all since the movie is 127 minutes long. The script I'm using is this:
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1) Removed the MergeChroma/Luma lines. 2) Changed the last parameter for TemporalSoften to 2 (instead of 1). I will try to post a sample of the movie (if I can find any webspace to upload to :roll: ) so you can see and judge for yourselves. Don't know if this is of any interest to anyone, but hey... @kwag About my TempSoft parameter change... I don't kow if I remember correctly but I think I saw a post were you said it was a good idea to do this change? Any other changes perhaps...? |
Re: Superbit success!!!
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I would leave the MergeChroma(blur(1.5)) line, and drop the MergeLuma(blur(0.1)) I have to update the script to reflect those changes. -kwag |
Yeah, I usually use the MergeChroma line but this movie have a quite large amount of red in many scenes, and the movie looked better without the line. That's the only reason I removed it. :wink:
EDIT: Sorry... I made a new comparison with and without MergeChroma(blur(1.5)) and I can't see any difference between the two. :roll: Perhaps my lack of sleep have something to do with my previous statement... So I'm restarting my encode to gain those precious CQ units! :D |
Huh?! 8O :o
This is strange - with MergeChroma(blur(1.5)) I only gain 0.19 in CQ :!: So the question is: How much compression is gained with MergeChroma and has it become obsolete (like MergeLuma)? Since the CQ is almost identical I think I'll skip MergeChroma. It should be faster to encode without it too, I guess... As they say - less is more. It would be nice to get feedback from you all on this MergeChroma discovery. I don't know, but it seems to me it's no longer needed? |
Hi audioslave,
I think that with the last changes I made to STMedian ( STMedianFilter(3, 3, 1, 1 ) ), the "Merge" lines are not really needed. Also, with the current MA script which is now "true linear", it makes quite a big difference on final file size :) -kwag |
Okay, kwag. Then it's goodbye and good riddance to MergeWhatever. At least for now. We never know what the future brings, eh? :wink: Thanks for clearing out my questions - once again! :D
Good night... ZzZzZz |
I got the wierdest idea this morning. To try to encode this movie - Bram Stoker's Dracula (Superbit) - with a static script. So after some experimenting I came up with a script that not only produced better output than the current MA script, but also gave me higher CQ :!:
With the current MA script I got CQ63,21 and with my static script I got CQ64,43. Strange but true. I used 300 for min. bitrate and 2500 for max, and Motion search precision set to High quality. The audio was 128 kbps, dual channel (downmixed to 44.1 kHz), and I used a final resolution of 480x480 (SVCD). I used ToK to predict. The script I came up with is this: Quote:
EDIT: Damn, now I see I only used 0.5 for MergeChroma. Was supposed to be 1.5. Well, I totally missed that. Guess I'm gonna have to re-encode the movie - AGAIN! :evil: :D My, oh, my... EDIT #2: I made a new prediction with the intended MergeChroma(blur(1.5)) and got CQ65,13. Another thing, when I encoded with the MA script I posted above the video got too large so I had to use 112 kbps audio. That means the CQ difference between the scripts are even higher than I first thought. Even more CQ with my latest script compared to the latest MA. I don't know if the script differences are the same with other movies since I've only encoded this one with my script - so far... :wink: |
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I have to test the last version of the MA script on my next DVD as I dropped the former one because I didn't like the blur effect on the action scenes. The new script is perhaps better on that point. |
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