1-cd anamorphic rv9 with aac in mkv

[weidai]

I'm seeking comments on my current DVD ripping setup:

-one cd
-full resolution (cropping only, no resizing) anamorphic RV9-EHQ
-no pre-filters other than IVTC, RV9 seems to remove noise by itself
-Besweet/Nero AAC-HE (Internet:Medium quality) for audio
-VobSub/RAR for subtitles
-MKV as container (video/audio only, mkvmerge still crashes with some .idx/.sub files)
-Mode2CDMaker to create XCD .cue/.bin
-MPC/Real Alternative/CoreAAC/DirectVobSub for playback

Is this the best possible setup to squeeze the last bit of quality out of a 1-cd rip? Can anyone suggest improvements?

One thing I'm concerned about is that the resulting CD can only be played smoothly on my fastest machine (Athlon-XP 3000+ with Radeon 9200), and even there the CPU is almost maxed out. Is this inherent in RV9 playback requirements, or does MPC not handle RV9 playback as well as RealPlayer?

[Tuning]

With latest nero use lower profiles, as the maximum attainable bitrate has increased considerably. Thus saving some space.

[Sirber]

Use Convulution3D with movieHQ to remove some noise, or else RV9 might produce some moving squares. :)

[bleo]

A reduced resolution encode may look better than a full res encode, especially for your 1 xcd target. But it's a balance between smoothed video and video with artifacts (which for rv9 looks smoothed anyway... :P).

But just try for yourself :) I used to do full res 1 cd encodes too. Then I watched them on an LCD and they looked really crap. I even started noticing artifacts in DVDs :P So now I do 1.45 GB encodes ;)

[ChristianHJW]

Full res anamorphic for 800 MB encodes :O ! Personally i wouldnt dare doing that, even with RV9, unless the movies are no 2+ hrs movies and have a good or at the very least medium compressability ....

[unmei]

i cant find a internet streaming profile, only vbr: internet and vbr: streaming, but both use LC AAC. I used vbr: portable 50-70 so far as it seems like the highest quality profile using HE. If you could tell me how to get a higher bitrate with still using HE that would be nice.
(ps that's nencode config, maybe nero itself has different profiles then forget my comment/question :) )

[weidai]

Sirber,
I'll try Convolution3D again, thanks. I had stopped using it because the RV9 output does not look noisy at all even with no denoise filter, but I didn't consider that less noise could reduce other artifacts.

unmei,
I'm using vbr internet. (I'll edit the original post to fix this.) What version of aacenc32.dll are you using? I'm using 2.5.9.7 with BeSweet/BSN instead of nencode. With that, I just select "internet:medium" under quality, and "HE" under AAC profile.

Tuning,
Do you mean I should use a Nero AAC setting that's lower than "internet:medium"? Like what, "radio:low"?

[Sirber]

I have artefacts cauzed by grain even at high bitrate (1.6mbps+). Always bettre to reduce it or remove it :)

[ookzDVD]

@weidai,

I think it will be better lower the resolution, as the AutoRV9 does
for low bitrate encoding.

Try UnDot() I think it will help a little. :)

[Sirber]

From my tests, I had more details going anamorphic then using 640x resize. Dunno why :confused: