DivX artifact problem

[Haakon]

Hard to explain what i mean. I added a picture where the Disney title is shown in front of a blue background. What happens is that around the white letters ugly artifacts appear. It's more disturbing while watching a video than in the picture. The rest of the video is top quality it only appears at the boarder of high contrast areas. I did Divx 5.2, 3-Pass slow mode, tried Psychovisual enhancements on/off (worst in fast mode, best in slow mode) Bitrate: 1450. Hope someone has some tips - sorry for any mistakes i'm not native english speaker,

[Haakon]

[junkmalle]

That type of artifacting is common to all MPEG 1/2/4 codecs, especially at low bitrates. Using a higher bitrate will help (you could use the high bitrate only on your intro).

[yoda313]

Hello,
Are you using the newer divx code with the High Definition encoding option? You might try that option and encode at the same bitrate. I believe it could produce better results, though it probably will be at the expense of a larger file size. Try it out on a dvd chapter rip to save on processing time.
Kevin