How to alter CCE settings so quality will be as good as TMPG

[digicube]

I would like to fit 5-6 hours on a DVD-R, KVCD has a template for TMPGEnc that can do it and quality is maintained pretty well with little pixelation. Does anyone how I can achieve this in CCE? What are the settings required to fit such long hours of video yet minimize pixelation?

[adam]

Well first step is to utilize alot of noise reduction, this removes detail from the picture and makes it much more compressible. CCE has a built in noise reduction filter but most people find it lacking. A better option would be to use something through Avisynth. Just plain old temporal smoother can help alot.

Secondly, you may want to make use a quantize matrix which is customized for lower bitrates. If you are using a later version of CCE than you can do this manually, and if you are using something like 2.5 or maybe 2.64 then you will have to patch the matrix in using CCE patcher and then multiplex the matrix in using something like BBmpeg. CCE Patcher comes with some great sample matricies used by some release studios and if you have had success with Kwag's matrix then just use that one.

Finally, play with the image quality priority setting (named differently in later versions.) This is by far the most important setting in CCE. For such a low bitrate you'd want to use a very low setting here, probably around 5. This will minimize the mosquito noise effect. This will increase contour noise during flat scenes, but that's what the heavy noise reduction is for.

Honestly, you may have better luck asking this on the kvcd forums.

[digicube]

he he sorry..kvcd not as well known as vcdhelp but I'm going there now.