Not anymore, it's been years since I used xvid. I'd suggest removing any changes to the xvid code. I highly recommend that everyone switch to x264 at this stage.
Additionally, the default setting for the x264 code should be changed as the mencoder interface has changed. The recommended setting now is: subq=5:8x8dct:frameref=2:bframes=3:b_pyramid:weight_b:threads=auto Personally, I recommend doing only 1-pass encoding with no included bitrate, and using the crf switch to control quality. I've found it to be much faster, and nearly equal in quality to two-pass encoding. However, my perl-fu is too weak to add additional interface options to the encode box. I think the ideal setup would be to allow the user to select either encode with bitrate or encode with quality, and then have a numerical entry box for bitrate, or crf value. I've found that at crf=18, the quality is indistinguishable from the actual data from my video camera. However, if it is desired to do two-pass encoding, the option turbo=1 should probably also be included in the default options list. Sorry I can't be of more help, I'm very busy right now and don't have time to do much clean up work. In a few weeks I might be able to look into taking the current acidrip source files and re-modifying them to effect up-to-date changes. There's also a bug in the scaling code that I've yet to track down. At this point I'm doing manual modification of the output scripts to fix it. The issue is that when you encode from a DVD with cropping, it ends up encoding at a funny resolution (probably because the DVD has rectangular boxes). You'll notice when you play a DVD that mplayer shows something like 720x386 -> 720x480 or whatever (I made up numbers). After cropping, you should play the movie again and see what the output size is. That's the actual aspect ratio that should be scaled in accordance with. For some reason, acidrip defaults to scaling in accordance with the original rectangular pixels instead of the actual screen appearance, which uses a lot more data for effectively no gain. -Brian On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 19:58 +0000, John Dong wrote: > Hi, > > Can you please explain the changes made to xvid encode settings? > > ** Changed in: acidrip (Ubuntu) > Importance: Undecided => Wishlist > Status: New => Incomplete > -- AcidRip Fails to properly work with x264 (includes patch). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/182999 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
