thewolf99
12th August 2007, 12:33
Most of the time I use DVD Shrink for backing up my movies onto hard disk to be streamed across my house, however it isn't so gd with compression of 70% or less generally (I'm sure you already know that.) My streamer (D-Link DSM320) has a quirk where it won't play movies over the size of an DVD-5 disk (i.e. just around 4GB) so its effectively the same as backing up from DVD-9 to DVD-5.
I therefore use DVD Rebuilder (HC 0.18 encoder) to back up large movies (e.g. 7GB or more) such as The Rock, Casino Royale, or any Superbit release. However, while all the light scenes appear beautiful, unfortunately dark scenes are over-compressed - slight macroblocking appears on solid colours like dark skies. I've increased the VBR to 40 with effect.
Thus, is there a profile for reasonably high bitrates (i.e. 3.5-4mbit) as the sharpness in light scenes and on facial details is ruined by the macroblocking in dark scenes. Its not like I need the movies to be really small, but unfortunately Rebuilder seems to encode dark scenes at around 1.3mbit/s or so whilst doing light scenes at 8mbit/s. I just need a profile that does something less extreme, like 3mbit min, 6 max etc. Like I said, changing the VBR bias to 40 doesn't really help.
I apologise beforehand if my question has already been posted here before - I used the search engine but came up with nothing.
Thanks! :)
P.S. I'm a complete amateur at Rebuilder so could anyone giving advice explain it in noob-terms? Cheers :D
I therefore use DVD Rebuilder (HC 0.18 encoder) to back up large movies (e.g. 7GB or more) such as The Rock, Casino Royale, or any Superbit release. However, while all the light scenes appear beautiful, unfortunately dark scenes are over-compressed - slight macroblocking appears on solid colours like dark skies. I've increased the VBR to 40 with effect.
Thus, is there a profile for reasonably high bitrates (i.e. 3.5-4mbit) as the sharpness in light scenes and on facial details is ruined by the macroblocking in dark scenes. Its not like I need the movies to be really small, but unfortunately Rebuilder seems to encode dark scenes at around 1.3mbit/s or so whilst doing light scenes at 8mbit/s. I just need a profile that does something less extreme, like 3mbit min, 6 max etc. Like I said, changing the VBR bias to 40 doesn't really help.
I apologise beforehand if my question has already been posted here before - I used the search engine but came up with nothing.
Thanks! :)
P.S. I'm a complete amateur at Rebuilder so could anyone giving advice explain it in noob-terms? Cheers :D