On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Alexei Dets wrote: > BTW, if you want maximum quality you should not run mpeg2enc with default > settings - increase -r (-r 24, -r 32) and set -4 -2 to 1 (-4 1 -2 1). > Warning: these settings will make your encoding SLOW. Default settings is a
-4 1 almost doubles the amount of time needed to encode and the savings are very small (perhaps 1 or 2% maximum). Usually it is not worth the extra time. I have not tried (yet ;)) changing the search radius from the default (which is 16) to 24 to the encoder (I do use -r 24 with yuvdenoise though). That is something to try on the next set of encodings. > compromise between speed & quality. Also it is possible to play with -N, -H > and different quantization matrices: tmpgenc & kvcd matrices can give you > significantly better compression (so you can decrease -q and get a better > quality for the same file size). Definitely yes! The movies look very good using "-K kvcd -q 4", no need in many cases to use -N at all with the new matrices (but you can use -N and -K/-H together if desired). A couple things that might be worth mentioning again for folks who are using the 'smilutils' to convert the DV to YUV4MPEG2... 1) Build the smilutils using FFMPEG's libavcodec routines. Using the DV decoder in libavcodec was good for about a 5% reduction in the average bitrate of the final movie. 2) Do any median and denoise filtering in the 4:1:1 colorspace by using "smil2yuv -i 2", then convert to 4:2:0 using y4mscaler just before sending the data into the encoder. This improves the bitrate by several more percent. > And CVS version provides better quality compared to 1.6.1 with the same > settings (thanks to Steven to convince me :-). Hopefully it was the picture quality that also helped to convince you :) Cheers, Steven Schultz ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users