Poor Quality on Conversion

[bobo81]

Okay, Yeah I searched and searched and tried some methods including the IfoEdit and nothing works.

Basically I rip a DVD to my hd and then use DVD to DIVX ripper to convert it. I tried both DIvx 5.21 and XVid codecs and still get a kind of "blurry blocky" picture. I mean its bareble but not as clean as other vids Ive seen.

Anyone know any other methods or even rippers that will give me great quality?

Thanx

[jtoolman2000]

Dr Divx and Nero Digital ( Nero Recode ) does a respectable job.

Nothing personal but why are you bothering with a divx convertion when doing dvd backups are so cheap this day? Not to mention, can be done in 1/2-1/4 the time?

[junkmalle]

Use a higher bitrate for for Divx/Xvid. Or switch to Quantization mode: single pass, constant quality. Set the Q value around 2 or 3.

[12 gage]

i struggled with this for a while then found a script that works for me maybe it will help with you. I used Gordian Knot and converted to XviD used this .avs script


#################BEGIN#################

LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\DGMPGDec\DGDecode.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\GordianKnot\AviSynthPlugins\Undot.dll")
loadplugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\degrainmedian.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\RemoveGrainSSE2.dll")


mpeg2source("input", idct=0)


trim(0,0)

Lanczos4Resize(576,416)

undot()
converttoYV12()
DeGrainMedian(limitY=5,limitUV=10,mode=2)
RemoveGrain(mode=2)
undot()
undot()

###############END###################

I encoded at 879 video bitrate with excellent results. Hope this helps.