Most compressible movie 1 CD Divx/Xvid ?

[Outsider]

What is the most compressible movie you guys have ever done on 1 CD?


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[OvERaCiD23]

Panic Room - 704x???, Lanczos, no filtering, 5.1 AC3 sound. I believe this had a ~90% comptest result with these settings. Long movie too, ~2 hours. It's low-motion, nearly all dark scenes.

[NeVeRLiFt]

I had good success with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and X-Men to name just two that compressed well and suprised me.

[UGAthecat]

The Others
I think I ended up with 640x???, no filtering, sharp bicubic resize, and still couldn't get it to take up more than about 680mb w/128kbps audio after tweaking various settings and re-encoding 6 times (yeah I'm obsessive compulsive, sue me :) )
The worst part is the first encode which was only about 570mb and the biggest one which was about 680 both looked the same to my eyes :rolleyes:
oh well, so thats a few days of encoding time my PC won't get back, but I didn't spend much of my time on it directly.

[Leitz]

The Green Mile
compresses well. Altough it is 188 minutes The Green Mile fits on one CD in quite nice quality (at least with Reals RV9 and 64 kb audio).

[wmansir]

Unbreakable is very compressable, just like Panic Room it has many dark, low motion scenes.

[cult]

unbreakable 1cd+ac3,the hole-couldnt get more than 598mb,704 res+ac3
2001 a space odyssey-142min in 1cd

[Hiro2k]

I had success with From Hell, all dark scenes and very low motion for the most part. I also got a very High Compressibility test with Blood II: The Last Vampire, an anime! I know it's only 40 mins, but the test came back with 90% at 704x512.

[TactX]

I got very good results with "Shrek".
Although most scenes are very bright it compresses very well, propably because it has absolutely no noise (except minimal MPEG noise).

[phuntyme]

doing SVCD, I couldnt fit 1 cd with Ghost of Mars unless I did a constant bit rate, and the quality is still very high. I dunno if that counts you guys seems to be concentrating on divx more so than mpeg2.

[rmatei]

Halloween, Alien and Blade Runner come to mind. Very good 640x272 results with great audio quality.

But man, overacid, 704 width and 5.1 audio on one cd... :eek:

[The Edge]

I found Swordfish very, very compressible. Unbreakable is another.

Edge

[Scipio]

Unbreakable is another.

This movie is good if you can't sleep... at least I fell asleep during watching it.

"The Matrix" is also a classic for very good compression.

[duartix]

You should try Branca de Neve (Snow White) (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0267331) by João César Monteiro (http://us.imdb.com/Name?Monteiro,%20Jo%E3o%20C%E9sar) to see whats compressible.
It's a beautiful derivation of the text tale by Hans Christianssen(?) where the director decided not to include any pictures but a black screen for lets say 90% of the movie!!! Yes, that's right. You just ear the actors for most of the time.
He got the subsidies from the State to direct it and this started a national fight over cinema financing by the state.
FYI João César Monteiro is 64 now and he is without any doubt the most radical Portuguese cineast. He's schizophrenic but still a genius.
Just check this atempt at an interview by a reporter from national TV:

Reporter:(R) The critics opinion is not a good one. What do you think?
JCM: "Let the critics F**K themselves!"
R: Why did you film this way?
JCM: Because I didn't film another way.
R: Who didn't allow you film another way?
JCM: What did you expect? Violins? You wanted soap opera? Why don't you do some public service?

Another great beautiful movie which should compress quite well could be: Few of Us (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0116300) by Sharunas Bartas (http://us.imdb.com/Name?Bartas,%20Sharunas)

[dar1us]

Can you do any per-frame (video comparison is far to fancy for freeware) comparison that will give you an idea (in figures) how different frames are.

There will be, but any that are not impossible to use and/or costing a billion bux.

[The Edge]

@dar1us
I'm afraid I don't follow:confused:

Edge

[TactX]

Originally posted by dar1us
Can you do any per-frame (video comparison is far to fancy for freeware) comparison that will give you an idea (in figures) how different frames are.

Like The Edge I'm actually not sure what you want and anyways this is by far the _most_ off-topic I've ever read in a thread, but I think that Avisynth could do what you want. At least you can compare two videos (or more) frame-by-frame.

Read the fine Avisynth manual ;)

[Steady]

Can you do any per-frame (video comparison is far to fancy for freeware) comparison that will give you an idea (in figures) how different frames are.
Try this avisynth script:

orig=AVIsource("my.avi")
nextframe=Trim(orig,1,0)
Subtract(orig,nextframe)

Or if you want numbers, replace the subtract() with:
Compare(orig,next)

[dar1us]

Cheers, i'll have a go.

I didn't feel it really warrented a fresh thread.

[bkam]

I just had a lot of success with Blue Velvet, Gattaca, and the original Psycho. I use DivX 5.02. I think especially Blue Velvet--I encoded a 35mb clip of some random extras and fit the movie into like 650 mb with like 84% compressibility lanczos to 704 no filtering (I believe). I don't remember if I did --alt-preset 128 or --alt-preset standard though.