encoding .m2ts with Megui. What's the best options?

[badreligionhead]

Hi,

I've been converting my m2ts files to xvid/avi using megui. I works great, but I'm trying to get the best quality as possible. I'm using the 'XviD: 2pass Q (Home Theater)' preset which I've bumped up to 4000Kbps. It does a really good job with compression. Approximate 2 hour movies are encoding down to a 1.5-2.5 GB files. But, in certain scenes in the movie it screws up on the compression and I'll get what looks like 20 huge pixels. It happens when colors are mostly the same- like scenes at night.

SO.. I'm looking for some settings which are a little less aggressive on compression. Ideally I'd like to see files sizes at 3-4GB. Anyone have some killer settings for Megui?

Thanks.

[guns1inger]

Unfortunately, that is an issue with mpeg4-part 2 compression. Both Xvid and Divx home theatre profile exhibit this behaviour, seemingly regardless of the bitrate provided.

[creamyhorror]

H.264 has better deblocking, so you could try that.

[badreligionhead]

I'll try H.264 again. I used it in another program, but the files it made was so CPU intensive I couldn't use it on my media PC which is a 2.8ghz Pentium D. I could only play them on my Core2duo.

I may try a different program, but so this megui is the only one I could get working.

[creamyhorror]

Well, in that case you may not want to bother. Your Pentium D can probably play mostly any 720p smoothly, but possibly not 1080p. If you want, you can look into whether it's using a multithreaded decoder, which is faster than single-threaded. Or check if your media PC's graphics card supports partial or full H.264 acceleration.