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Teegedeck · 19th February 2006, 15:26

In the VfW XviD defaults, quant=1 is allowed. The only reason for that is the encredible and annoying amount of complaints about 'undersizing' that we used to get on the forum. Some folks don't understand the concept of a 'saturation point'.

If it weren't for that, limiting quantizers from 2 to 31 would be the only sane thing to do. Quant=1 is only there to eat up bitrate; higher quality usually comes with lower-coefficient custom quantization matrices, not with using quant=1 with the standard matrices.

As limiting quantizers in Avidemux appareantly doesn't cause another flood of 'undersizing-complaints' here, I'd say, they should keep it 2-31.

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Teegedeck Moderator, Ex(viD)-Mascot Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 2,564	In the VfW XviD defaults, quant=1 is allowed. The only reason for that is the encredible and annoying amount of complaints about 'undersizing' that we used to get on the forum. Some folks don't understand the concept of a 'saturation point'. If it weren't for that, limiting quantizers from 2 to 31 would be the only sane thing to do. Quant=1 is only there to eat up bitrate; higher quality usually comes with lower-coefficient custom quantization matrices, not with using quant=1 with the standard matrices. As limiting quantizers in Avidemux appareantly doesn't cause another flood of 'undersizing-complaints' here, I'd say, they should keep it 2-31. __________________ It's a man's life in Doom9's 52nd MPEG division. "The cat sat on the mat." ATM I'm thoroughly enjoying the Banshee - a fantastic music player/ripper for Linux. Give it a whirl! Last edited by Teegedeck; 19th February 2006 at 15:30.