Best way to divide up a cd

[amoeba]

I recently encoded an anime DVD which contained 4 episodes, since all four were on the DVD together I simply ripped them as one long chain, then after i split the single avi into the separate episodes and noticed that although each episode was almost the same length each was a different filesize obviously because of the VBR encoding. Now if for example episode 3 was larger than episode 1 this would be because episode 3 was less compressable. However after seeing this i thought that there must be some difference between encoding all 4 episodes with one average bitrate given by GKnot and encoding each episode seperately with the average bitrate, ie selecting a range in Virtualdub before encoding. I think that doing it how i did is better as it allows for each episode to be allocated the right amount of space to make its quality equal to that of the other episodes whereas encoding each episode separate nay mean that a low motion episode would be getting the same amount of space as a high motion episode.

Tell me what u think.

[manono]

Hi-

There's no question that encoding the whole thing at once gives each episode the same quality as the others. There is sometimes a problem when the time comes to split them. Often there's no Keyframe where you want to split, but that wasn't your question. So, I'd say you're doing it right.

[amoeba]

yeah luckily it fades to black between each episode and there is a keyframe in the exact place where i need to split them.