Vongo WMV quality shakey when scene pans

[Barnabas]

I recently decided to give Vongo a try to see how the quality is. While it's not too bad considering the bitrate, whenever the whole scene has to be redrawn, like when a camera pans from left, the scene looses it's smoothness.

Is this normal for wmv files?

Wondering if the framerate for wmv files is too low?

I don't see this problem when playing DVD's on the computer btw.

Thanks

[Baldrick]

what is the bitrate,resolution and framerate?

good encoded wmvs looks very good.

[Barnabas]

720x480 encoded at 700 kbps. The person I spoke to at Vongo did not know the framerate.

[jagabo]

WMV throws away and duplicates frames to when the action is too high for the bitrate (duplicate frames require almost no bitrate).

[Barnabas]

WMV throws away and duplicates frames to when the action is too high for the bitrate (duplicate frames require almost no bitrate).

Where did you get that information?

[jagabo]

WMV throws away and duplicates frames to when the action is too high for the bitrate (duplicate frames require almost no bitrate).

Where did you get that information?

By looking at WMV encoded files.

[Barnabas]

It's amazing that wmv will drop frames at lower bitrates, but after reading your post, I searched and found this about wmv encoding so you must be correct.

"Bit rate. A higher bit rate achieves a better image quality. If the bit rate setting is too low, the codec will drop frames to produce a higher quality image, although this may not be visible to the viewer. (Note that if you are encoding low-motion video, the actual bit rate may be significantly lower than the expected bit rate.)"