CBR in DVD2SVCD

[Holomatrix]

Hello, when selecting a CBR video encode mode, what bitrate is set?
Does DVD2SVCD choose what's in MAX.,Min. or Max. avg ?
Thanks

[dvd2svcd]

None of the above of course, it uses the internal calculated bitrate (except if the calculated bitrate hits the max or min avg).

[MiniM3]

DVD2SVCD, God Bless You for this app :) just to let you know how appreciated I am, I'm not even religious :).

I was wondering what genius would come up with a front-end all-in-one solution.....

I've been busy reading the threads concerning the CCE freezes and the multitudes of suggested remedies. I've come to the conclusion that I don't really have the time to play around and wait hours for the results when encoding with different settings, so I'm gonna stick with CBR encoding when necessary for the odd video that will cause CCE to freeze.

I do have one question though, when I did El Dorado (which is another movie that freezes up)it kept freezing at 24% with CCE, I've tried safe mode, vbr 3 pass, 5 pass, different bitrates etc. and had no luck. Then finally I tried it with CBR and it went though without a hitch and it did it in like 4 hours. I thought that was kind of weird and proceeded to think it didn't encode properly, but lone and behold, it did! Here's my question: The quality is pretty darn good but when ever there is fast motion, you can see some flaws (macro blocks) but this only occurs if there are any fast motion in the movie. Is there any fix for this besides using multi-pass? and is there a difference between VBR 1 Pass and CBR? if so, which one outputs the best quality.

If I sound ignorant, that's probably because I am :), I'm new at this so bare with my "lack" of knowledge with encoding terminology.

Keep up the good work, looking forward to the new version :)

MiniM3

[caliburn]

I had the exact same problem with CCE freezing up at 24% doing Road to El Dorado
Driving me nuts.

Caliburn

[markrb]

Try the avisynth.dll in this post.
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22696

Rename the one in your dvd2svcd/avisynth directory to .old or something then go to windows/system32 and erase the one in there and replace it with this one.

Do a search to make sure there are no other versions of avisynth floating around and if they are delete them.

This has seemed to fix a few issues in the past. I am sure the next revision of DVD2SVCD will include this version or a newer one. This was only found about 3 days after the release of 1.08.1.

It may not fix it, but it's worth a shot.

Mark

[caliburn]

Hi there.
Just reporting back my results.
Downloaded and installed latest Avisynth to the appropriate directories.
Still crashed at 24 %

Caliburn

[Clixo]

try to make an cbr encode with temporasmother on s=3 R=1
image quality priority 10 antinoise filter on with 15
if i can not make an vbr those are my settings ( good results here )
other thing bitrate never under 2230

[caliburn]

Hi Clixomano.
I came home at lunch and started a CBR encode using the DVD2SVCD default settings and so far so good. Boy, it's a lot faster eh?
It's made it past the critical 24% mark.
Once I review the resulting files, I may try another one using the settings you suggested.
Thanks for the input.
I'll report back with my results.

Caliburn

P.S. Hey markrb, I forgot to thank you before for the Avisynth suggestion - so thanks

[caliburn]

Uh - WOW!
The CBR encode of Road to El Dorado turned out fab-u-lous!
I am shocked. I'll have to play around with it more. It cut in half the total encoding time I usually wait, and I am hard pressed to really see a difference between it and my regular 4 pass VBR encode.
Sure some of the quicker movement scenes show some blockiness, but they aren't distracting at all.
I am very happy.

Caliburn