Set quality per chapter(scene)

[andru123]

Any way (or application that allows) to specify the mpeg4 encoding quality(bitrate?) per chapter (or even per scene) of a DVD movie?

Instead of having a constant quality throughout the movie I'd like to bump it up for intensive scenes (or panoramic views) and lower it for the dialogues, titles etc...
:script:

[Sharktooth]

megui 0.2 supports zones in x264 encoding. im also sure other encoding guis do it too.

[unskinnyboy]

Or in the CLI, the --zones option.
--zones <zone0>/<zone1>/... Tweak the bitrate of some regions of the video
Each zone is of the form
<start frame>,<end frame>,<option>
where <option> is either
q=<integer> (force QP)
or b=<float> (bitrate multiplier)

[andru123]

:)
aha! so the keyword to search for is zones :)