A little bit of help

[CrAzYPiLoT]

Hi,
I am a total newbie to the world of AV and encoding and I need some help about re-encoding an AVI. It is a 640x272 AVI encoded in XVid, with a fair bit of noise. I would like to re-encode it into x264 and the container of MP4, remove the noise and improve the quality a little bit. I have already fixed a bit of the noise with Avidemux, but in the process, it removed some of the softer lines in the video. After that, I used Movavi video converter to convert it to 1280x720 and I tried using HandBrake to encode it one last time, but I see no big improvement over the original video. I still have the original video, and I would like to start the process all over again with a bit of your help. So, again, my question is, how do I re-encode it into x264 without losing quality, then how do I remove the noise and improve the quality? Also, if it is possible without losing quality, I would like to resize it into 1280x720. By the way, if I can keep the filesize as small as possible, it would be great, but not necessary, I would just like to keep it under 7 GB The original file's filesize is ~700 MB
Thanks in advance.

[ackboo]

Get mediainfo, use it on your source file, find the text and copy paste it here. If possible use avidemux in copy mode and post a small sample of your video.

[CrAzYPiLoT]

Mediainfo output:
General
Complete name : D:\Filmovi\Synchronicity.2015.HDRip.XViD-ETRG\Synchronicity.2015.HDRip.XViD-ETRG.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 698 MiB
Duration : 1h 40mn
Overall bit rate : 972 Kbps
Writing library : VirtualDub build 35491/release

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : 2
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Muxing mode : Packed bitstream
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 1h 40mn
Bit rate : 834 Kbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 272 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.200
Stream size : 600 MiB (86%)
Writing library : XviD 67

Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 1h 40mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 92.0 MiB (13%)
Alignment : Split accross interleaves
Interleave, duration : 42 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 500 ms
Writing library : LAME3.99r
Encoding settings : -m s -V 4 -q 3 -lowpass 17 -b 128
Sample in a minute.

[ackboo]

Warez (illegal downloads) is against the rules here
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/72386-Forum-rules-Acceptable-Use-Policy-%28AUP%29?

If you like that movie buy a blu ray or dvd and rip it to another format.

[jagabo]

You're not going to improve the quality by much. Some advanced AviSynth filters may help a bit more than the things you've already tried. But you have a steep learning curve there. Upload a 30 second clip of the original file. You can use VirtualDub in Video -> Direct Stream Copy mode to trim out the sample. Then upload it here.

[CrAzYPiLoT]

Uh, what led you to the conclusion that it's warez? The file name? If yes, I got it like that on the CD. If you think I bought a pirated copy, I will gladly remove this thread, just tell me.

[jagabo]

LOL. Of course it's a pirated copy. Movie studios don't release Xvid AVI files, and certainly not with names of known release groups. Just edit your post and remove the file name.

[CrAzYPiLoT]

I didn't mean like that. I live in Serbia. Serbia's markets are pretty much shit. The guy who owns the store that I bought this in, probably burned it with a pirated copy. I don't want to lie to people, yes, it's probably a pirated copy, but I honestly did not know.

[johns0]

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