quality: still having problems

[prey]

sorri for buggin u all again but i tried many combination of settings and the picture is still rather pixelated.

okay, for tmpgenc, i've tried 2-pass(the new one from 2.53), 2-pass old where both were set at 1900 average bitrate and 2500 maximum bitrate. dc precision was set to 9 and motion set to high quality(slow).

in fighting scenes there were still 'heavy' pixelation. is this because the max bitrate is not high enough? but then again i would like this to be played on dvd player so i cant really go over it

i have also tried constant quality(75, max 2500), but that has not helped the situation

finally i was wondering if GOP structure and Quantize matrix has anything to do with it. i keep it to default

any input is most appreciated

thanks

[DDogg]

Well if CQ with a max of 2530, a min of 900 and a cq of 85-95 does not clear up your problems then it must be the source or the frameserving setup. DO check "soften block noise".

How are you serving your source? AVS or D2V?

[prey]

thanks for ur reply

i am using d2v as my frameserving. i have just tried what u suggested, but when it comes to fighting scences (in rush hour 2) blockiness occurs.

btw what are intra and non intra blocks?