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6th December 2006, 19:28 | #81 | Link |
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Yes, WMV2 offers the highest encoding speed (many times that for WMV3) and probably the best speed per unit quality of any codec ever made. Not only that but it has the fastest decoding (faster than ASP/WMV3, and would be faster than AVC except for the CoreAVC decoder).
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Not only does WMV2 offer the best Speed/Quality ratio, but after careful comparison this morning, I've found that it offers equal or superior quality in high- and mid-motion scenes to x264 rev.602 (latest) at constant quantizer 18 with all other quality options cranked to max except CABAC. Here's the specs, sorry I already deleted the screenshots but the source was HDTV .TS 1920x1080 scaled down to 1368x768 using Lanczos4resize().
The WMV file was about 31MB, the x264 about 32MB, and of course WMV2 using Nic's ran at about 5fps, while x264 managed .5-.6fps. Needless to say, scaling back the quality options in x264 to obtain more speed quickly degraded the quality to significantly below WMV2 level. WMV: Format: WMV2 in WMV Mode: Quality VBR, 100 FPS: 23.976 Advanced Options: all default, except: 1. Lookahead: 16 frames (Note: I have a feeling most of these options don't affect WMV2, but I've verified that Complexity does work on both WMV1/2 and significantly decreases CPU usage on playback, while minimally affecting quality) x264: (Tabs are in MeGUI, only changed items are shown) <Main Tab> Format: AVC1 in MP4<RC and ME Tab> Chroma M.E.: on<Advanced Tab> CABAC: off Last edited by Isochroma; 7th December 2006 at 04:05. |
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So in addition to thanking Nic for the excellent tool, I'd like to thank Microsoft for some fine engineering on WMV2, and of course also some minus feedback on WMV3, due to its very low speed/unit quality ratio.
Thanks to Nic's WMVEnc + WMV2, I'm now transcoding one .ts per day, and so can finally make progress on the backlog of 100+ encodes waiting to go! After encoding, the .WMV is loaded into Graphedit and the video stream sent to Gabest's latest MatroskaMuxer, instead of the WMVDecoder. Then the AC3 is muxing in a secondary step with MKVToolnix. This is because Gabest's MM doesn't fill in all the details (display size) and hasn't been updated in a while. Also, I tried Haali's latest muxer but it screws up and doesn't set the framerate atom, so the mkv's can't be demuxed and play at the wrong framerate. Last edited by Isochroma; 7th December 2006 at 04:10. |
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Ditto. I would like to encode some 16:9 hd video at 1440x1080. Is this supported yet?
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I would like to Encode 2pass ABR at 8112kbps (just like an ordinary XviD 2pass).
So i check "Use Multipass Encoding". Do i have to check VBR , too ? And for the Bitrate , do i have to enter 8112 or 8112000 ?
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This is a great tool! Thanks to the maker
I just wanted to ask a few questions on settings. If I just want 2-ch audio @ 192kbs, should I use WMA 9.2 or WMA10 Pro? Is one quicker than the other, if so which one? Or if they are the same, I should use WMA10 I suppose? And there are tons of Video codecs, I'm stuck on which one to use. WMV 9 WMV V8 WMV 9 Image WMV 9.1 Image WMV 9 Advanced Profile Which one uses VC-1? And which one is the best quality-time ratio? I'm not too fussed about quality as I will be encoding TV shows, and then they will be disposed off and not for a collection, wondering which codec to use. WMV V8 will be quickest right? Also, I am not bothered about size, so what bitrate do I use and what quality, and do I use VBR? Basically, I convert weekly a few MKV TV shows of mine, and would like about 20fps encoding on my P4 3.4GHz 1GB RAM machine. Thanks, hope I can get some help |
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Thanks, so I'll use WMV V8 i.e. WMV2
And WMA 9.2 for audio. But last question is the quality settings. Next to bitrate, it has a quality setting, what does this do? And if I don't care about size, should I use VBR? I want to convert a 1GB mkv TV show. Thanks. |
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No to take away any thunder from Nic, but WMNicEnc is a little out of date by now - it might be easier and more intuitive to use WMCmd.vbs or WME9+PowerToy for your encoding. The options and context help are more accurate in those tools.
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