smeghead2
15th November 2009, 00:16
Hi,
I've not long installed Windows 7 and got around to installing Staxrip 1.1.1.9 beta recently to encode my avi files to MKV, but I've come across a problem.
I usually don't do anything much to the videos, all I want is to do a good 2 pass encode at the same resolution as the original avi so as to shrink the file size down a bit to fit on my hard drive. I don't alter anything else unless I need to deinterlace.
Now since moving over to Windows 7, I've noticed all my encodes look a lot worse. I use Media Player Classic to play my files and although the files I've encoded on my old computer (XP) look fine, the ones I've done since then (using the new Staxrip version and Windows 7) look a lot blockier. There isn't any sharpness to them anymore.
I've read that Windows 7 uses its own codecs for h.264/mkv and I've changed the settings in Media Player Classic to use Bilinear resizing so that the old video files look better (i.e - less jaggies), however the encodes I've done on Staxrip since moving to Windows 7 still look blocky.
I tried an experiment to see if it was WIndows 7 itself causing the problem by encoding a file on my old XP computer and then playing it back on the Windows 7 one, but it still looked as bad.
I'm assuming that it's therefore not Windows 7, but something either to do with Staxrip, or one of its apps. I tried doing a 1-pass encode at maximum quality too, but it's the same problem. I think it's something to do with the resizing, but I don't resize them when I encode.
Can anybody help me? Thank you!!
I've not long installed Windows 7 and got around to installing Staxrip 1.1.1.9 beta recently to encode my avi files to MKV, but I've come across a problem.
I usually don't do anything much to the videos, all I want is to do a good 2 pass encode at the same resolution as the original avi so as to shrink the file size down a bit to fit on my hard drive. I don't alter anything else unless I need to deinterlace.
Now since moving over to Windows 7, I've noticed all my encodes look a lot worse. I use Media Player Classic to play my files and although the files I've encoded on my old computer (XP) look fine, the ones I've done since then (using the new Staxrip version and Windows 7) look a lot blockier. There isn't any sharpness to them anymore.
I've read that Windows 7 uses its own codecs for h.264/mkv and I've changed the settings in Media Player Classic to use Bilinear resizing so that the old video files look better (i.e - less jaggies), however the encodes I've done on Staxrip since moving to Windows 7 still look blocky.
I tried an experiment to see if it was WIndows 7 itself causing the problem by encoding a file on my old XP computer and then playing it back on the Windows 7 one, but it still looked as bad.
I'm assuming that it's therefore not Windows 7, but something either to do with Staxrip, or one of its apps. I tried doing a 1-pass encode at maximum quality too, but it's the same problem. I think it's something to do with the resizing, but I don't resize them when I encode.
Can anybody help me? Thank you!!