TMPGenc question

[Viper187]

Ok, I've been encoding DVD rips with TMPGenc recently, but there's something I can't figure out. I've never been able to edit the bitrate and such. It's always greyed out even when I click that Expert thing. Aren't you supposed to be able to raise that for better quality or somethin?

Reason I'm asking is... I encoded one movie and it looked ok when played full screen in WMP, but the next one I encoded looked a little shitty. ...first movie looked real bad when I used DVDx to make it DivX 4 instead of TMPGenc. lol

[tonyp12]

Start up TMPGENC, skip the wizard.

Load a VCD Templete, load unlock in the extra folder.

Now change to 2pass varible bitrate.

Save the Temple with a name like: VB_VCD(ntsc).
Restart tmpgenc and now choose this new templete.

Now can set: 1000 avarge, 1150max and 300 minimum.

If you DVD player can handle XVCD you can increase these numbers.

[Viper187]

Thanx

[banjazzer]

Unless you set System>Stream type = MPEG-1 Video CD(non-standard) your settings will be over-ridden and you will end up with a standard VCD!!!

[Viper187]

I decided to try MPEG-2. Looks great, but it's like 2GB. I'm thinking about converting it to DivX. lol

[tonyp12]

If it as 1hour movie and it turned out at 2GB then
you used to high of a setting. (nearly DVD settings)

1150 avarge bitrate and one hour would be around 700mb.
(e.g that is VCD standard)