Xvid encoding

[fester77]

I´ve been using AVIrecomp to squeeze 2cdsvideos into one. some videos get a like blocky, but i does not matter that much
because VideoLAN got this postprocessing thingy that smoothes things out (i think).
I´ve found out that by going into the xvid encoder settings -> other options -> postprocessing tab and using both deblockings that the videolan smoothing thing got embedded into the encoding. Well sort of .... not totally but it got better.

Of course there is h264 which of offer better quality when using high compression, but not all standalone player handle that.
But being the newbie i am i having problems finding another program that is a easy as this one. That is for the bigger part: whatever size into whatever i size i point at (usually 700 meg = 1 cd) and having the option to use VBR audio.
Well there are couple other programs that are somewhat straight forward but somehow there always seem to be one thing that has to be compromised, often missing VBR or just too fuzzy (techy to is) to to figure out the output size.

I wonder if anyone here know what Videolan does when it postprocesses the video? And if that can be embedded into the encoding (xvid) so those videos that locks good on the computer looks the same on a standalone player aswell.

[jagabo]

Deblocking is a playback feature, not an encoding feature (although you can deblock your source before encoding if it's already blocky). VideoLan may use slightly better deblocking filter than Xvid's internal deblocker.

I believe Xvid's deblocker was taken from x264's deblocker. x264 has more control over deblocking. So VideoLan may have tuned it a little more.

[Bonie81]

in case of XViD as video bitrate starts dropping, blocky artifact starts increasing.
it's better you merge CD1.avi + Cd2.avi and throw it to Free DVDAuthoring tool like AVStoDVD.

[fester77]

Bonie81, it seems that whould be a good option if u have the time to encode when you want them on cds or dvds .
I usually just burn my avi s as they are with nero as i´ve still not gotten into the workings of DVDs (menus and whatnot).

Im merly interested in "finetuning" these avis, but as jagabo explained its seems that this "polishing" cant be encoded.

Anyway thanks for for the replies.