Encoding with QuEnc...

[pantherman85]

After I used Voblanker to get rid of some of the annoying extras on Interview With a Vampire then I sent it through DVDRebuilder using the QuEnc encoder and only keeping the DTS and AC3 5.1-ch audio tracks, keeping no subpictures, Steal space from extras at 50%, on the QuEnc Options I checked off Trellis Quantization, and High Quality mode. Then I did the Transcode, but in the end the file size of the Audio and Video TS was only 3.76 gigs. Why did it compress it that much? I thought it would make it the least file size it needed to be in order to burn the image which is like 4.7 gigs or whatever. Any thoughts?

Also is QuEnc a better quality encoder than the one DVDShrink uses?

[pantherman85]

Well i watched the movie and it is filled with small green blocks of video distortion. Any thoughts?

[soundforbjt]

Some versions of QuEnc don't work well with DVDRebuilder.

If you used a version other than 0.54, I'd suggest you try that version first.

[rkr1958]

Also is QuEnc a better quality encoder than the one DVDShrink uses?

Check this out ... QuEnc is an encoder, DVDShrink uses a transcoder ... two different things.

After I used Voblanker to get rid of some of the annoying extras on Interview With a Vampire then I sent it through DVDRebuilder using the QuEnc encoder and only keeping the DTS and AC3 5.1-ch audio tracks, keeping no subpictures, Steal space from extras at 50%, on the QuEnc Options I checked off Trellis Quantization, and High Quality mode. Then I did the Transcode, but in the end the file size of the Audio and Video TS was only 3.76 gigs. Why did it compress it that much? I thought it would make it the least file size it needed to be in order to burn the image which is like 4.7 gigs or whatever. Any thoughts?

Question, does Voblanker leave any of the original vobs or other files (renamed to some other extension) in the VIDEO_TS folder after it finishes. Why I ask, I use titlesetblanker and it puts "~" at the end of the original files that are blanked, which allows the user to go back the original title. However, if I use DVDRebuilder w/CCE-Basic to back up this DVD but keep the *~ files in the VIDEO_TS folder it produces a final DVD that is well short of 4-GB. If I remove these files from the VIDEO_TS folder then the size of the final DVD is near the limit of 4.3GB (or 4,700,000,000 Bytes). Maybe something similar is going on with you.

Well i watched the movie and it is filled with small green blocks of video distortion. Any thoughts?

Possibly, too much compression. You might try using titlesetblanker to blank out the titles (extras) you don't wont / need instead of heavily compressing them. Unless you really won't to keep them, which it might be worth creating a second disc that contains just the extras.

[pantherman85]

Well, i watched the DVD in a different DVD player and it did not show the green blocks. I also watched the video in DVD shrink and it did not show any of these green blocks. The DVD player i used is a panosonic and that gave me these errors but when i played the movie in my Ps2 it seemed to be fine. huh