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Northpack
29th March 2002, 13:31
Now this is strange!

I encoded a half a dozen movies on DivX 5, using GuardianKnot for resize & bitrate calculation. Worked fine so far. Yet it happend that I tried to encode the movie named "The Cube" (a brilliant movie, btw.) and the resulting avi after second pass was about 200 MB off from the predicted filesize! The bitrate was 1050 and the movie should have been around 625 MB - i got 427 MB! I made another attempt (first + sencond pass), raising the bitrate to 1250. This time the resulting file was 440 MB, viz only an increase of 13 MB for the whole additional 200 kbps! Geez! What could be wrong with that movie?

Thanks 4 z attention,
Northpack
DJ Bobo
29th March 2002, 15:18
very simple: your movie is very good compressible and is already saturated. Go for 1-pass quality based 100% and you'll get almost the same size.
If you want bigger size, make resolution higher
Northpack
29th March 2002, 20:53
Yes, you are right :o

I reencoded the whole movie at full dvd-resultion(!) with a bitrate of 1600(!!) and this time I got a 645 MB big AVI. Please excuse my stupid question... I simply wasn't expecting that to be happen for a 1CD-rip! Indeed almost the whole movie takes place inside a 5x5 meter steel-cube, what could eventually explain the incredibly compressability, couldn't it? *grin*

I'd like to encode more movies like that! :D

Thx,
Northpack
EN
1st April 2002, 19:41
Originally posted by Northpack
Yes, you are right :o

I reencoded the whole movie at full dvd-resultion(!) with a bitrate of 1600(!!) and this time I got a 645 MB big AVI. Please excuse my stupid question... I simply wasn't expecting that to be happen for a 1CD-rip! Indeed almost the whole movie takes place inside a 5x5 meter steel-cube, what could eventually explain the incredibly compressability, couldn't it? *grin*

I'd like to encode more movies like that! :D

Thx,
Northpack Did you encode Cube? I had excellent results with Cube as well...quite a compressable movie. Of coures I used 3.11Alpha so the filesize is definetly not as small as I could have gotten it in DivX5.