Originally Posted by poisondeathray View Post
I haven't looked at these closely yet, but the problem with comparing these is they use a different bitrate (~ 8Mbps vs. ~6.3 Mbps)

A more valid comparison would use similar bitrates

Originally Posted by Cornucopia View Post
There's a lot of other differences: BFF vs. TFF, VBR w/ Diff max BRs, M3N13 vs. M3N15 GopType,..

I'm surprised these both look as similar (at a glance) as they do.
These two samples should be more equal:

Nero-sample, 2:
Nero_akvariet_new.demuxed.m2v

TMPEGEnc-sample, 2:
Akvariet_tmpegenc_new.demuxed.m2v