Encoding problem...

[pantherman85]

After a couple stressful weeks of going through numerous brands of blank DVD's and DVD burners it turns out the blocky playback errors that I have been receiving have been because of the encoding process. I have a 1.10GHZ AMD Athlon Processor, I get problems when encoding with shrink and DVD rebuilder. I have looked at the footage after encoding process and it contains the same exact errors that have been showing up on my DVD playback. I have no idea what to do, do I need a faster processor chip? Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks

[mats.hogberg]

Nope. Encoding/transcoding quality is not related to processor speed. What kind of errors do you experience? "Blocky playback" doesn't say that much - could be too highly compressed (=too low bit rate).

/Mats

[nelson133]

I would agree with Mats, what you describe is common when over compressing with the transcoding engine in DVDShrink. What is the compression percentage in DVDShrink? Are you starting with compressed video to begin with? A little more info would help. Nyah Levi

[pantherman85]

Thanks for the help guys and ill try to be a little more specific. When using DVD rebuiler I have it set to 10 passes. The only time I use DVD Shrink is when I have a movie that I can backup without encoding, meaning it will allready fit on a single side blank DVD. The errors I get are sometimes green blocky digital squares but can also be all kinds of other colors. Sometimes there is also skipping forward very slightly in the video. When using my friends high performance machine computer I do not get these errors but on mine I do. Thanks

[johns0]

If you only see those color blocks and skips while watching the dvd then its cause of crappy media,do you see the errors watching the encoded files on your hdd?You say you see after the encoding process but its kinda hard to know if its being watched by dvd burner or files.

[pantherman85]

If you only see those color blocks and skips while watching the dvd then its cause of crappy media,do you see the errors watching the encoded files on your hdd?You say you see after the encoding process but its kinda hard to know if its being watched by dvd burner or files.

Sorry for not being more clear, yes i see the color blocks while watching encoded files on the hdd.

[jtoolman2000]

If you see these even when you do not conporess in DVDshrink then it would be characterized as a media problem. However, you also state that when you use your friend's high powered machine you do not see these problems then that would point the finger at something happening with your machine. Assuming of course you are still using the same media. Remember to only change one variable when trying to trace down a problem. I never see this onmy backups. The sort of artifacts you are describing point to low bitrate encoding, normally speaking. This may be a media issue. Your 1 gig processor will simply take longer to encode or transcode than your friend's nothing else should be causing what you are experiencing.

[mats.hogberg]

I'd say green or randomly colored squares in the newly encoded mpg's indicate something very odd indeed, and not too low bitrate. More like a codec problem. Is your source commercial DVD or what?

/Mats

[pantherman85]

If you see these even when you do not conporess in DVDshrink then it would be characterized as a media problem. However, you also state that when you use your friend's high powered machine you do not see these problems then that would point the finger at something happening with your machine. Assuming of course you are still using the same media. Remember to only change one variable when trying to trace down a problem. I never see this onmy backups. The sort of artifacts you are describing point to low bitrate encoding, normally speaking. This may be a media issue. Your 1 gig processor will simply take longer to encode or transcode than your friend's nothing else should be causing what you are experiencing.

The thing is though I see these problems on the actual encoded files that are on my computer before i put them on a blank DVD.

[pantherman85]

I'd say green or randomly colored squares in the newly encoded mpg's indicate something very odd indeed, and not too low bitrate. More like a codec problem. Is your source commercial DVD or what?

/Mats

Yes i am just burning backups of movie DVD's such as "Aliens" or something. I have checked though and the Video is fine after the DVDdecoder process, the problems arise after DVD rebuilder (with CCE basic) or Shrink. Should I reload all of my programs again?