Bicubic Resize

[CCoug83]

From most of the guides that I have read, I've gotten the impression never to use the plain bicubic resizing filter. At the least you should use Neutral Bicubic. I've been using AutoGK now for a while for 1 CD rips and it seems like it is always using this filter. I've looked at the quality of some of my videos (ie. One Upon a Time In Mexico) and in the darker portions it looks simply terrible. Huge pixels everywhere! Is this because of the resizing filter AutoGK uses? When using Sharp Bicubic and Lanczos in regular GK I have never had a movie turn out so pixelated.

[manono]

Hi-

No, it doesn't have anything to do with the resize used, except indirectly. If the results of your compression test are good enough, AutoGK will use the default LanczosResize. If the compression test results are low, then it switches to Bicubic (and does some other things) to try and improve the movie's compressibility. My guess is that the compressibility didn't improve enough (did you set a Minimum Width by chance, or force AutoGK to use a specific Horizontal Width?), and the blocks result from not having enough bitrate. Since you're going for 1 CD rips, there's a very strong chance that's what is happening. You might try and make the movie for 2 CDs and see if the problem goes away.

But if you can post the log, it might shed some light on the matter.