Image quality priority is higher better?

[kohlie]

In dvd2svcd ther is a image quality priority button is setting it to 100 produce a better picture? then leaving it at 17?

[Gazorgan]

I don't remember seeing that setting. I do know with TMPG that the highest quality setting has no noticable visual improvement over the 2nd highest setting. It does take 2x-3x longer to encode though.

The best thing I can reccomend is to do some sample encodes of a short clip and keep increasing the settings. Time the encodes and compare.

[kohlie]

its under encoding

[adam]

Image quality priority, a scale of 1-100, are you sure you're not talking about CCE here? Since you say its on the encoding tab my guess is that you are using CCE through DVD2SVCD. If so all I can tell you is to read the CCE manual, it explains this setting very well. No higher is definitely not better, it all depends on what you are doing. Generally you are going to want to hover around the 20-25 mark and go lower if there is alot of action in your movie and higher if there isn't much action, and the more bitrate you use the higher setting you can get away with. Also note that the 1-100 scale is only used on earlier versions of CCE. I think the newest versions use a scale of 1-64 so you may have to adjust your settings accordingly.

[kohlie]

u are right. But i did the grinch and it took like 8 hours! The guide said cce is quick ? ya right tempeg is alot quicker! 4 pass and this mpeg5.1 my god it took forever!

[adam]

When you set CCE to 4 passes its really doing 5 because it first has to create the vaf file. So you are comparing a 5 pass vbr encode to either a 1 or 2 pass TMPGenc encode. No wonder CCE seems slower, your doing possibly up to 5 times more processing with CCE. I don't recommend using more than 3 (actually 4) passes in CCE. If you read the manual it states the same thing. At 3 passes CCE should still be faster than TMPGenc, and if speed is of more concern for you than you can always encode in 1 or 2 pass VBR, in which case CCE should be anywhere from 2 to 3 times faster than TMPGenc.

[kohlie]

i picked mpeg5.1 for audio, i didnt tekk much differeance than stereo surround? Do u chose surround downmix, stereo oe dual channel in dvd2avi? How do i know if i got 5.1 mpeg on the encoded movie?

[adam]

Very few dvd player/audio receiver combinations support 5.1 audio in a SVCD. Check your receiver and unless it has the multichannel mpeg audio logo, then forget about 5.1 audio. When making a VCD or SVCD you should just select the Dolby 2.0 track and encode in stereo. If for some reason you cannot use the 2.0 track then select the 5.1 track and do a dolby surround sound downmix.

[kohlie]

Thanks, i also noticed that dvd2svcd broke down and split the encoded movie into 2 parts automatically? Is that normal?

[kohlie]

Also in dvd2avi 1.86 what does the dts extract do and what can u use it for?

[adam]

Yes that is normal. DVD2SVCD is supposed to automate all the steps of making a SVCD, all the way up through the burning process. SVCDs are pretty much always going to require at least 2 cds so DVD2SVCD splits your mpg according to the sizes you set.

The DTS extract option lets you demultiplex the DTS stream from the DVD. DTS is an audio encoding format. If you are making SVCDs then you don't need to bother with this, just select the 2.0 or the Dolby Digital track. The only uses for extracting the DTS, that I can think of, would be to author it on DVD-r or to make a DTS audio cd.

[kohlie]

where can u find a cce manual?

[adam]

It should have been packaged with CCE when you bought it. If you can't find it you can download one from http://www.cinemacraft.com.