Everything looks c-h-o-p-p-y

[theplayer]

I am trying to go from DivX - XVCD with TMPEG12h, and i had the bitrate on 760 to fit on one CD and it looked choppy (its NTSCFilm at 720 by 480) and then i said ok we can do 2 CDs, So the calc said 1763 bitrate, i did that, and it still looks choppy, whether in High quality (slow) motion or Normal and now i do 2500 bitrate, and even that looks choppy now, So is ther any way i can have a good looking XVCD...that is worth burning?

[theplayer]

heh, nobody?!

[ktnwin]

The main question is:
1) what bit rate the Divx file was encoded at? did it look good to start with? If not, there is nothing you can do.
2) What is the resolution chosen for your XVCD ? is it 352x240 or still at 720x480 ? If it is the later then even at 2500 kpbs, it still will not look good.
To achieve good quality, one should start from Divx file encoded with high bitrate (>= 5000 I guess) before re-encoding to XVCD.

[suspect]

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: suspect on 2001-07-25 10:16:19 ]</font>

[theplayer]

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On 2001-07-25 10:02:56, ktnwin wrote:
The main question is:
1) what bit rate the Divx file was encoded at? did it look good to start with? If not, there is nothing you can do.
2) What is the resolution chosen for your XVCD ? is it 352x240 or still at 720x480 ? If it is the later then even at 2500 kpbs, it still will not look good.
To achieve good quality, one should start from Divx file encoded with high bitrate (>= 5000 I guess) before re-encoding to XVCD.


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1) Well i open it in windows media player and right click -> properties says, 2Kbps, is that right? It looks fine to start out with (it is a DVDRip DivX File)

2) I want to keep the resolution at 720 by 480 which is NTSC res and it will look best on my standalone DVD player...i still can't find out why it won't go good

500MHz - P3
256 MB RAM
32MB ATI Rage Fury 128
ATIDVD Player
(using TMPEG12h)

[hitechjunkie]

i've done 720x480 XVCDs directly from DVD rips using a CBR of 2100 which looked amazing when played back on my standalone. in your case, the movie has already been ripped and compressed once to divx. now it must be uncompressed from divx, then re-compressed to MPEG-1 for your XVCD.

you mention "choppy" playback. do you mean choppy in that it stutters from frame to frame, or does the video appear blocky, full of blocks, during high motion scenes?

how did you load your divx avi for encoding to XVCD? what tools and settings?

[theplayer]

ITs choppy like frame - frame...how do i uncompress the divx file then??

Well, i have it at 1763 bitrate to fit on two CDs, 720 by 480 res. High Quality (Slow) Motion

1:1 VGA

ALL DONE WITH TMPEGencbeta12h

Anything else??

[hitechjunkie]

1763 bitrate for 720x480 rez? is that CBR or VBR? 1763 looks way too low for a 720x480 rez. i'd go with something higher like 2100-2300...