Problem with XviD quality

[weaver4]

I am having a problem encoding a movie. Their seems quite a bit of pixelization, mostly in the high motion parts of the movie. I am using staxrip to encode the movie, but when I use avi.net it looks much better. Since both are using the same XviD codec I don't think it is the codec but the way that I am using it.

At the first of the movie is the WB logo and it comes towards you, along the edges of the WB it is very ragged in the StaxRip version and clean in the AVI.net version. Both decodes have been done at 1100kbs.

Any ideas on what I have set up wrong?

[Teegedeck]

This sounds rather like someting you should point out to the guy who coded StaxRip. Maybe asking here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=102652&page=14&pp=20) would be a good idea.

[shon3i]

Try to use Auto Gordian Knot

[stax76]

You get blocks in complex scenes first when the bitrate is too low. Did you make a compressibility check and used at least 70%?

Maybe you could also use quality mode at quant 4 or even better (quality) at quant 3. Here is a good link to learn about it: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=104548

[Slitheen]

Try to use Auto Gordian Knot

Or Fairuse wizard, which I found makes Xvid look nicer and encodes faster. I'm not saying it's better, just different in this respect.

[weaver4]

You get blocks in complex scenes first when the bitrate is too low. Did you make a compressibility check and used at least 70%?

Maybe you could also use quality mode at quant 4 or even better (quality) at quant 3. Here is a good link to learn about it: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=104548

No but I did use the same rate I selected for avi.net, 1100kbs. File sizes are very close to the same.

[Slitheen]

Perhaps one takes more time to encode, hence looks better?

[chilledoutuk]

psot some specs of the respective encodes and then we may be able to explain whats going on.

[unskinnyboy]

You need to check with the authors of the respective applications to see what settings they use for the encode (if its something which you don't get to modify before encoding). There are a lot of factors which can influence quality - VHQ, b-frames, AQ etc. You also need to check the .avs files used in both cases - what kind of resizing filters were used, whether any denoisers/sharpeners were used etc. Without knowing all these, it is difficult to say what went wrong where.

[stax76]

You could post your StaxRip log file.