Is highest quality encoding best in TMPGEnc?

[nocam1334]

Just wanted to get some opinions on whether encoding in high quality is really better than normal or fast. There is tremendous difference in encoding time, especially with high quality SVCD's. Is there any noticeable difference in video or audio quality when using the slow, normal, or fast encoding settings? Thanks in advance.

[vitualis]

There is probably little difference in quality between High Quality (slow), and Highest quality (very slow).

Most people would use the "high quality (slow)" setting as although the quality is about the same as the slowest setting, it is quite a bit faster.

Regards.

[randallc]

Just last night I did a few minute clip with both fast action and slow scenes. I encoded these with High Quality, Highest Quality, and Motion Search.

I honestly couldn't pick them out in a blind test when played back on my 35" TV.

Maybe if I had still shots blown up on my computer I could more clearly pick out the order of quality of the three clips - but I found it interesting that when viewed on my TV they were indistinguishable. (at 2000 bitrate 2PassVBR)

Randy

[homerpez]

My guess is, if you have a conventional TV, even 35", you won't be able to tell the difference between any of them.

Personally, I only use TMPGEnc to encode audio, and make a project AVI. Then I run the AVI through CCE, 4-pass.

I've been able to make 480x480 SVCD's, up to 2 hours long, in the 880 - 1300 AVG bitrate range (2520 MAX). On a PC they look like garbage. Play them on a TV... many look just like the DVD!

[vincym]

I have tried to encode DV AVI type I to Standard VCD mpeg by normal, high and very high quality. But I can't see any difference! Why?

My TV is 25".