Maintaining compatibility with Standalone players

[nitinpushpan]

I'm using MeGUI for converting my Videos (mostly DVDs). I convert using the Standalone Bluray encoder settings preset. Is it possible to change the encoding settings to improve the quality of the output video further more without hindering it's compatibilty with standalone players? If so please advice some settings that I can change to improve the output quality?

[tetsuo55]

DXVA presets work on most standalone players

[nitinpushpan]

Is that like the highest settings for x264 without hindering the compatibility?

[tetsuo55]

DXVA-HD-Insane is the highest quality preset for HD content, you'll have to encode one and test on your player to see if it still works.

This is extremely slow though.

You could probably get it a little higher by making a preset yourself, but we're talking a less than 2% improvement at the cost of a many times longer encode time.

[nitinpushpan]

Thanks...

[m3mbran3]

DXVA-SD-Insane is the best quality DXVA setting, but if you find that too slow then you could use DXVA-SD-Extra Quality which is a step down but still excellent quality. If you're looking to tweak your settings for you DVDRip then do not increase ref frames past 8 or b-frames past 3 as that will break DXVA compatibility on some players. The only addition I usually make to the DXVA profiles is to enable b-pyramid as I have not encountered a situation where it has broken compatibility (GPU assisted & PS3 playback)

edit: actually you can have many ref frames [http://mewiki.project357.com/wiki/X264_Settings#ref]