Nero Recode2 video quality

[bill1029]

Well in the interest of getting my DVD collection onto a HD, I purchased Nero 7 Ultra for the recode application (of course I had to uninstall nero scout due to the constant crashes.. thanks nero !!!).

Definetely VERY easy to use and very fast... but this is obviously at the cost of quality. The video files look quite grainy to me, even at the highest quality setting available. Unfortunate since the application truly seamed promising, especially given the price.

Now I am playing with Dr. Divx to get all of my movies a t 4GB size, and so far am excited about the results. The video quality is MUCH better than nero recode, though MUCH slower.

I am looking forward to trying autoGK to test out the Xvid and compare it to the HD Divx files...


If you are thinking about getting Nero recode... I HIGHLY recommend that you use the trial first !!!

[smitbret]

Try changing your AEC settings. You have to run some registry tweaks since there are no settings for it in the program itself. I use max smooth with all of my Nero Recode compressions and I like the results a lot, but only down to about 75% compression. If the video has to be compressed any more than that, encoding is far superior to any transcoder. It takes longer, but it is worth it.
-Brett

[kgetting]

I have the latest Nero Recode. How do you adjust the compression for maximum smooth? I have noticed that the video quality is a little grainy.

[jman98]

For what it's worth, I'm also using Dr Divx and I'm really pleased with the results. I'm not a big Divx vs. Xvid zealot. If someone is in love with Xvid, that's fine with me. In my opinion, Xvid is marginally, if any, better than the current release of the Divx codec and much of the anti-Divx sentiment is either based on hating it because you have to pay for it (fair enough I guess, but that has nothing to do with whether or not Divx is a good program) or people who compared older versions of the commercial Divx codec with Xvid and have never tried it again. Xvid was a lot better than some of the older Divx releases, but the quality of Divx has reached the point where I think they're pretty much indistinguishable.

Dr. Divx now allows you to encode to 1080i/p and that's something I was never able to get autoGK to do. Well, I think once it started and then it crashed. Dr. Divx's method of encoding to 1080i or 1080p definitely works. I've used it to encode an HD TV program I recorded from NBC at 1080i.