h00z
16th March 2003, 04:31
I've been using IC7 for a while now, and it usually produces perfect results for me. The update has only made it better... but...
How does IC7 actually analyze and encode the video? The reason I ask is because I have been struggling with disk one of "Berserk" and have yet to get a really nice backup of it.
The original is basically a CQ MPEG2 encode with a really flat bitrate curve. The first time I viewed it in BitView, it almost looked like a CBR encode... It is that flat.
I've tried several different things to get the quality up, but I'd like to keep as much of the extras, audio streams and subtitles intact as I can. Every encode I've done is very blocky in the black areas regardless of what I try. Other than that the encode looks great though. It's just the black areas that are nasty.
So back to my original question; Does IC7 just follow the original bitrate curve and reduce it accordingly (ala ReMPEG2), or does it actually analyze the video and reencode accordingly (like you would do in CCE or TMPGEnc)?
I've tried encoding the same DVD in CCE using a modified Robshot method of my own and I have produced excellent results at a filesize of 1.5gb... That leads me to think that IC7 is more like ReMPEG2 in the way that it reduces the bitrate, but follows the same curve therefore not giving the black areas enough bitrate. Does that sound plausible to everyone?
So... What can I do about it short of using CCE or TMPGEnc? Has anyone else tried this disk themselves? How did your backup look?
How does IC7 actually analyze and encode the video? The reason I ask is because I have been struggling with disk one of "Berserk" and have yet to get a really nice backup of it.
The original is basically a CQ MPEG2 encode with a really flat bitrate curve. The first time I viewed it in BitView, it almost looked like a CBR encode... It is that flat.
I've tried several different things to get the quality up, but I'd like to keep as much of the extras, audio streams and subtitles intact as I can. Every encode I've done is very blocky in the black areas regardless of what I try. Other than that the encode looks great though. It's just the black areas that are nasty.
So back to my original question; Does IC7 just follow the original bitrate curve and reduce it accordingly (ala ReMPEG2), or does it actually analyze the video and reencode accordingly (like you would do in CCE or TMPGEnc)?
I've tried encoding the same DVD in CCE using a modified Robshot method of my own and I have produced excellent results at a filesize of 1.5gb... That leads me to think that IC7 is more like ReMPEG2 in the way that it reduces the bitrate, but follows the same curve therefore not giving the black areas enough bitrate. Does that sound plausible to everyone?
So... What can I do about it short of using CCE or TMPGEnc? Has anyone else tried this disk themselves? How did your backup look?