DVD-RB, Avisynth & Mutlipass

[Mr.Bitey]

Howdy,

Sorry for the basic question here, but I cant find and answer :)

When using DVD-RB with an avisynth filter & doing a multi-pass encoding (ie. cce with a 7 pass), does DVD-RB run the filter once only, or once for each 'pass' ?

Cheers,
Bitey

[steptoe]

As I understand it, I believe the filters are applied once only. I assume it will be the first pass so that CCE can work on the actual encoding of the altered source


7 passes is a bit of an overkill though, even the CCE manual says anything over 2 passes won't make much of a difference except in terms of time

But, saying that there are people on here who have found 5-6 passes can make a difference to very high motion movies, like Star Wars or LOTR

[Abond]

Each pass. Otherwise you would get CRC error from CCE.

[jdobbs]

The filter definitely has to be applied to each pass -- if not the encoder wouldn't properly allocate the bits based upon the output of the filters.

[Mr.Bitey]

Thanks for the replies (even if it wasnt what I was wanting to hear :-)

Cheers,
Bitey