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26th August 2003, 15:05 | #1 | Link |
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RoBa: Binary search for Q or Newton's Method?
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I've done some research on finding a suitable Q for a RoBa 2 pass encoding with DVD2SVCD. (Outlined in http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.ph...071#post361071) As you may be aware, Tylo's plugin (D2Sroba) uses the binary search approach to find the best Q for both a single pass (OPV) and multipass (VBR). Tylo's tool offers to calculate several Qs for as many CDs the movie will fit in keeping at least the expected quality. Binary search needs 6 or 7 sample tries to find the optimum Q for each category, depending on the range you defined for the search. Tylo has optimized his tool to skip some searches and guess the result. This actually can lead to significant differences with real data, since the slope of the curve is not known. Alternatively, I implemented two variatons of Newton's Method to find the Q, as well as Binary search. I used Excel to have side by side comparison of the three methods. The final spreadsheet also contains sample data (sample sizes of a movie for all Qs). I found that the Newton's standard version outsmarts Binary search in about half of situations. The improved Newton version is found to outsmart Binary in most cases (actually, outsmarts the standard too). A suitable Q for 2 pass RoBa can be found in 2 or 3 tries! Please feel free to download the sheet file from: http://www.angelfire.com/droid/r6d2/ and play with the sample data. The sheet is self-documented so you should have no trouble using it. Also, it documents RoBa method and you can get a clear understanding of how it works when quality and edge-filled CDs is what it's all about. The sample data will also give you a glipmse of how the Q function behaves like on a typical source. Also, the magic of the improved method is based on a magic number. If through experimentation you find another magic number which converges even faster, please share the knowledge. It's likely DVD2SVCD will implement this feature in a future version, so we need all the help we can get. Regards,
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MPEG4 quality with MPEG2? - Try the Poor Man's DVD. FACAR - As seen on TV! - The Complete Idiot's Guide to a good DVD Conversion. Time is money. Try D2Sroba for DVD2SVCD (FAQ) and save both. All electricity bills supported! Do you know how much overscan and which resolution your TV has? Find out if NTSC. Moderator: 1: one who arbitrates 2: one who presides over an assembly, meeting, or discussion 3: a substance (as graphite) used for slowing down neutrons in a nuclear reactor (Webster) Last edited by r6d2; 27th August 2003 at 20:03. |
27th August 2003, 16:27 | #2 | Link |
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Improved version
Hi,
I just uploaded a new improved version of the spreadsheet. Change log follows: Code:
Version Comments 1.1 Added spec abiding BR limits and suggested video BR max Added "other stuff" which takes up space on the CD to get a more precise target BR Added normalized audio BR by lookup table 1.0 Initial release
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MPEG4 quality with MPEG2? - Try the Poor Man's DVD. FACAR - As seen on TV! - The Complete Idiot's Guide to a good DVD Conversion. Time is money. Try D2Sroba for DVD2SVCD (FAQ) and save both. All electricity bills supported! Do you know how much overscan and which resolution your TV has? Find out if NTSC. Moderator: 1: one who arbitrates 2: one who presides over an assembly, meeting, or discussion 3: a substance (as graphite) used for slowing down neutrons in a nuclear reactor (Webster) |
27th August 2003, 19:05 | #3 | Link |
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That's some great looking stuff there Can't wait to see your "The Complete Idiot's Guide to a Good DVD Conversion (work in progress)" I would like to see options for 1CD SVCD, 2CD SVCD and DVDr. (I'm doing transcoding right now but still hear that encoding still prevails)
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MPEG4 quality with MPEG2? - Try the Poor Man's DVD. FACAR - As seen on TV! - The Complete Idiot's Guide to a good DVD Conversion. Time is money. Try D2Sroba for DVD2SVCD (FAQ) and save both. All electricity bills supported! Do you know how much overscan and which resolution your TV has? Find out if NTSC. Moderator: 1: one who arbitrates 2: one who presides over an assembly, meeting, or discussion 3: a substance (as graphite) used for slowing down neutrons in a nuclear reactor (Webster) |
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28th August 2003, 07:51 | #6 | Link | |
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I hope to put it in the plugin at some point, but I think we'll manage OK with the smart binary search at this time. I normally only get 4 tests, sometimes 5. As a note for DVD2DVDr encoding. The next release of DVD2SVCD which should not be so far away, will include much more support for this. Hopefully, the plugin will still work, without too much adjustments. A new version of the plugin is around the corner: It uses purely DVD2SVCD's bitrate computation, as suggested , also D2S internal RoBa support is added , and more... |
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31st August 2003, 02:32 | #7 | Link |
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Version 1.2 released
Hi, I just uploaded a new very improved version of the spreadsheet. Change log follows:
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Version Comments 1.2 Added limited support for TMPGEnc CQ mode (Docs/variables still refer to Q. You have to do the analogy.) Added determination of reduced CD Size for equally sized images when CDs would otherwise not be filled. Added muxing overhead and fixed spare size. Now precision is better that 0.5% compared to FitCD. Added support for higher video BRs (known as X(S)VCDs) Audio/Video size embarrasing bug fixed Added more documentation 1.1 Added spec abiding BR limits and suggested video BR max Added "other stuff" which takes up space on the CD to get a more precise target BR Added normalized audio BR by lookup table 1.0 Initial release
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MPEG4 quality with MPEG2? - Try the Poor Man's DVD. FACAR - As seen on TV! - The Complete Idiot's Guide to a good DVD Conversion. Time is money. Try D2Sroba for DVD2SVCD (FAQ) and save both. All electricity bills supported! Do you know how much overscan and which resolution your TV has? Find out if NTSC. Moderator: 1: one who arbitrates 2: one who presides over an assembly, meeting, or discussion 3: a substance (as graphite) used for slowing down neutrons in a nuclear reactor (Webster) |
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