The advice I was given several days ago on improving hqdivx to svcd conversion speed has really helped me out. With my new pipeline I can get between 6.5-7.5 fps from NTSC sources and 4.5-5.5 fps from PAL sources (actually, I'm sure the encoding rate is better than that; the fps computation includes decoding and multiplexing time too.)
My question now concerns optimizing for quality. I watched a couple of the SVCDs I'd burned recently, and while overall the quality was fine, on one of the discs had many dark scenes, and these tended to get badly pixelated. What can I do to improve output quality, given the constraints of the SVCD format? The discs described above were actually converted using my old pipeline, which used an mjpeg lav file as the intermediate step between divx and mpeg2, so I'm curious if that extra codec might be responsible for the lower quality in the dark scenes. Also, is there any advantage to lowering the audio bitrate (I'm using 192 now), i.e. does it free up for bots for video or just make the file smaller. Is there anything else I can do to get the best quality SVCDs? Thanks, Jay PS - FWIW, I'm using transcode to decode the divx sources, as I've not been able o get divxdex to work properly. -- Jay Bloodworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
