Good settings for Music DVDs

[Nazgulled]

I don't know if this has been answered before so I'm sorry for that if it was...

Most music dvds are simple and can be encoded using normal settings for movies and they will have great quality but some others do not and using the normal settings for movies even if we encode an 1hr for 1cd the final quality will be bad...

I'm talking about dvds of metal music for instance they are all full of scenes where the camera moves pretty quickly and there are many pans and zooms and lots of flashing lights going on the scene and all that makes xvid look like an horrible codec but i'm not an expert and that's why i'm here...

A friend told me that for this kind of dvds they should be encoded with Divx 3.11 High Motion but I don't want to, I want to use XviD if possible so I want to know if there is anyway to do this with XviD and achieve great results, not exactly as it happens with movies but close if possible and not sucky as it looks at the moment...

XviD experts... I'm all ears :D

Thanks in advance...

[Manao]

OK, first, don't forget there are no such things as 'best settings'.

Now, in your case. First, use XviD 1.0 beta 2. If you don't have a limitation in size, increase the i-frame boost, because you want the flashes to look good.

Then for the other settings, I would use Adaptive Quant ( since it's dark, it should help a lot ), ME 6, VHQ 4, chroma motion, GMC, treillis. B-frames, of course, but which settings ( I would try the defaults ( 2,1.5,0.75) and change them if it's not correct). No QPEL, no reduce resolution ( never ). You may choose chroma optimizer. I would use the HVS_GOOD matrix. I would use a strong spatial denoiser ( this kind of video tends to be noisy ) and I would use a small resolution ( 512*384 for example ), because the level of details isn't usually important.

[KpeX]

I would stick with Xvid as well. The problem isn't a codec problem, it's a problem with the video itself, and video compression techniques. The high amount of scene changes which are common in music videos make it difficult to compress, because a large number of keyframes is needed. Keyframes are much larger than other frames and thus a higher bitrate is needed. I recently encoded the KoRn music videos included with the DVD on their 'Take A Look In The Mirror' release. These videos are a perfect example of high scene changes and the first passes resulted in 5000-10000 kb/s bitrate.

So I'd recommend using your normal settings, just don't expect to use your normal movie bitrates. hth,

[DevilsChild]

AutoGK gives me really good results for music DVD's if I use the 2CD option. This gives great quality and allows you to keep the high quality AC3 audio. I've made XviD backups of Queensryche's Operation Livecrime, Metallica's St. Anger, and Judas Priest's Live in London with no problems whatsoever.

[Nazgulled]

Firs of all thanks for all the replys...

@Manao
Actually I would prefer to use XviD 1.0 when it's finished and not beta versions...

@KpeX and DevilsChild
I'll see what I can do, I'll do some tests and see if I can have great looking encoding...