Best settings for football caps ?

[Dez[Uk]]

Hi

I have been trying to make decent quality xvid encodes of football highlights recently but i am having problems getting good quality results. The source is a Digital Freeview card (Nebula Electronics to be presisce) and i am using Koepis XviD recent build to encode. I aim for a video bitrate of 1000kbps and above and do a 2pass encode. But when played back there is a lot opf blockiness and the xvid codec finds it hard to deal with a lot of motion.

The clips are roughly 8 minutes in length and i aim to put them online for download so the size has to be relatively small, hence why im using the xvid codec.

Can anyone suggest the best settings to use for the best quality results ?

Maybe xvid is the wrong option for what i need ?


Thanks

[Sharktooth]

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[stephanV]

What resolution do you have? 1000 kbps on a decent res is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to low for sports.

[Dez[Uk]]

Resolution is 640x352

What are your suggestions, keeping in mind i want to keep the file size down

[stephanV]

first do a constant quant encode at say q4. check file size and quality and see if that fits your needs. if it doesnt, use q3 (in case of quality) or resize to lower res (in case of file size)... or both. but sports is not compressible like your average movie is.

[Teegedeck]

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[AndiDog]

You should activate noise reduction in your capturing program, if possible.