Best encoding settings you use for SVCD

[hyena77]

hoping if some of you can share what the settings in TMPGenc you use to create the best quality SVCD. time is not an issue to me if i can achieve excellent results. thanks.

[RabidDog]

test test and test again... get a reasonable 5 min clip of anything? then encode with std (min/avg/max) bitrate say 300/1700/2250 then try 100/1500/2000 also 300/2000/3000 300/1800/4000
This will determin Your players minimum bitrate also its maximum bitrate.. the average bitrate however will be major influence on how encode looks. IMHO 1800 is reasonable, 1600 is lowish 1200 is very low.. try all these and remember its two-pass vbr. Also different films will require different avg bitrate some are ok at 1600, others will look bad.

[cooljoe666]

I use the same settings most of the time.

CQ - constant quality
quality - 80
max bitrate 2520

These settings may go down somewhat sometimes. The running time of your video affect this. If your video is 60 minutes then the settings above will most likely work. The more minutes you go over 60 the lower the bitrate and quality is. I encoded a 70 minute one time and set things at 2320 CQ 70 w/ good quality. It usually takes only 5 hours or less for me.

Use slow(high quality) motion search. You can also check 'soften block noise' and set the button above that to MPEG standards.

All this encodes a very impressive video stream. One thing I have learned very recently is to avoid encoding the audio with the video. Do them seperately. The longest part of the process is encoding the video. It takes no time to do the audio and to mux the 2 together.

Stay away from 3:2 pulldown unless you are having no problems, it is bad about creating jerky video. I just convert my 23.976 to 29.97 without pulldown and have never had sync issues. Every pc reacts differently like it has it's own soul.

I prefer CCE the most but am still trying to get a perfect picture but the result is much better than TmpgEnc.

Good Luck.