You need: - Widescreen. - If you don't have widescreen, you need b&w. Either convert it or use b&w original. Can even be noisy. - If not b&w, the movie must be "clean", meaning almost no noise. - As little vegetation and water visible as possible. - with mpeg2enc I use the -q 14 - you needn't worry about maximum bitrate. It doesn't give you much more space but uglifies fast movements. Quantisation is everything.
Examples: I encoded The Usual Suspects. About 110 minutes I think. Quality above VCD but ugly in several scenes depending on the background. I encoded Plan 9 from Outer Space. Almost perfect quality. Whether or not you choose this kind of solution depends on what type of artifacts bother you most. For example I don't encode anime that way because I hate the noise around fast moving clean lines. In ordinary action movies this is not a problem, most noticable is the block-display on backgrounds like sky. This doesn't bother me at all. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users