TMPGEnc Squeezing Video

[DivXerouS]

I have a 62 Minute movie that I am making into an SVCD...I Decompressed the Audio and loaded it into TMPGEnc...I wanna squeeze the most video I can. I lowered the Audio settings to 48 KHZ, Joint Stereo, and 160KB/s...I tried one of the KVCD Templates but it says that the file will be around 1GIG..Im making a XSVCD...Anyone got any tips...:D

[bubbaleroy]

For 62 minutes on SVCD in TMPGEnc, I would use, 80min/800mb CD-R, Audio: 44100, 192, Stereo. Video: 2-pass VBR, min 1000 enable padding checked, maximum 2520, average 1550.

[kwag]

Originally posted by DivXerouS
I have a 62 Minute movie that I am making into an SVCD...I Decompressed the Audio and loaded it into TMPGEnc...I wanna squeeze the most video I can. I lowered the Audio settings to 48 KHZ, Joint Stereo, and 160KB/s...I tried one of the KVCD Templates but it says that the file will be around 1GIG..Im making a XSVCD...Anyone got any tips...:D

Use KVCD prediction: http://www.kvcd.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2102
You'll easily fit ~2 hours on one CD with better quality than a regular SVCD.

-kwag

[DivXerouS]

where is the enable padding and the 2 Pass VBR Setting..Im using the SVCD Ntsc Film Template for TMPGEnc..Kwag does that also work for high action movies or slow ones..?:confused:

[bubbaleroy]

2-pass and enable padding are at: Settings -> Video -> Rate control mode. In reference to the kcvd templates, I haven't used them and have seen good and bad threads about them.

[DivXerouS]

Would it be a good idea to switch from Constant Bitrate to 2 Pass VBR..? Also IF I do use it how would I determine the file size..?

[bubbaleroy]

I get good results with 2-pass, but it takes a lot longer. I do more dvd2dvd than anything else, but when I have about an hour or under I use the svcd. I use two different calcs, both on the web.

http://www.vcdhelp.com/calc.htm
http://pwp.netcabo.pt/0165394101/Calculator.html

[DivXerouS]

Ok after reasearching around forums, I've been reading that TMPGEnc 2 Pass VBR is better then Constant Bitrate. Considering it refines the movie twice, and uses the bitrate when necessary. Someone also explained that CCE 2 Pass VBR is even better then TMPGEnc 2 Pass VBR, so now I encoded a 40 Minute movie using TMPGEnc's 2 Pass VBR. Since I have a 450MHZ Processor it would have taken 35 hours, so what I did was that I broke the movie in 4 parts, 20 minutes each and cut the credits out. So it takes around 12 hours to encode 20 minutes of the movie on my processor. I finally finished encoding the 40 Minute part and joined em together and will try it out soon. I've also decided that from now on I will use CCE to encode my movies, IF it looks better then TMPGEnc, I've been gathering information about CCE, it's capabilities, and overall how to use it. No it's not a Demo Version, my friend managed to get it from somewhere. Over the weekend I will encode the other 40 Minute part of the movie using CCE 2 Pass VBR, instead I will make it 3 Pass VBR, and see how it matches up with TMPGEnc's encoding. Will posts results soon.

:D Thanks for the useful very informative and useful information, that everyone gave me. Keep up the good work moderators. :)

[DivXerouS]

I converted Fatal Fury The Motion Picture/Anime which has a lot of high motion fight scenes, and all I have to say is WOW !. Compared to 2 Pass, Constant Bitrate is shit. Seriously, results have never been THIS good, after researching some more people have said that CCE 2 Pass is faster & better then TMPGEnc's, so I wanna try that as well, I set everything up but I seem to running into troubles, for all the newbies who are starting, use the 2 Pass VBR option in TMPGEnc, for SVCD's use the minimum bitrate as 1100, average depending on your movie, and maximum 2520, will get pretty good results, it will also depend on how much bitrate your DVD Player can handle, try researching about your DVD/{S}VCD player before you begin.

Will post more comparisons soon if anyone cares. :rolleyes: