panasonic mpeg encoder problem

[gbryant]

I want to make an xvcd using the the panasonic encoder(2.51 standalone). But when I go to encode, it gives me a vbv, buffer too low error. I heard there was a patch, but still haven't found anything. Any help would be appreciated.

[pinoy2201]

Panasonic isnt very good for XVCD you might want to try out TMPGEnc th best XVCD creator out there

[Stinky]

pinoy is right - XVCD and Panasonic aren't good together

TMPGEnc is the way to go

[gbryant]

I'd like to believe you about tmpenc but I've had so much trouble with it in the past. What makes Panasonic produce bad quality xvcds? I plan on using a 1150 kb/s rate and just changing the dimensions.

[disturbed1]

Here's the patch http://www.geocities.com/bug2kbug/helper/patch.htm

Without the patch you can adjust the VBV buffer manually if your bitrate is set higher than 1856 (limit of constrained parameter specs.) It's under advanced settings btw.

[vivisimonvi]

I had the same problems as well when I had the bitrate really high (around 2000 kbps). I switched to TMPGEnc, but the quality wasn't as good as my PWI plug-in. I actually like TMPGEnc as far as more options but the quality I was looking for wasn't there.

Now I'm using Panasonic again. This fix seems to be working fine so far!