Something seriously going wrong here.

[rufuz]

I just finished encoding a 830 kbps, two pass encode with DivX 5.03. So I was going to re-encode the credits. I opened the movie in VDubMod and saved the credits. When it was done I ended up with a 71,5 mb file and according to abcAVI Tag Editor it was at 1976,288 kbit/s. The credits are just yellow rolling-up text on a black background, no pictures or anything. Anybody see something wrong with this picture? :rolleyes:

Filesizes (w/o sound):
Movie w/credits size = 609 mb
Credits size = 71,5 mb
Movie w/credits re-encoded size = 548 mb

What is DivX thinking?

[EagleDM]

Try to use a quantizer of 20 for credits (it has a blocky image) and if you do not like it, try 15-12.

there is NO WAY a credits can weight 70 mb.


Do some 1-pass quality based and set the quantizer to 15-12 for high quality and 20 for min-quality.

see if that works.

[Acaila]

there is NO WAY a credits can weight 70 mb.Of course it's possible if you're using a normal bitrate for the credits. That's why indeed the most sensible thing to do is reduce the bitrate severely.

Just as a comparison, the credits of Fellowship of the Ring [Extended Edition] are about 20 mins of white letters on black background. Without bitrate reduction they come out at around 250MB !!

Most normal credits though average at around 70-100 MB without bitrate reduction.

[EagleDM]

haha, yes, you're right, i was talking about bitrate reduction all the time, I didn't think in terms of 'same bitrate as movie'


my mistake

[rufuz]

I think you should read my original post again. I set DivX @ 830kbps for the whole movie including credits and I ended up with a 700-750 kbps movie and 1976 kbps credits. :eek:

NOTE: I've re-encoded the movie and the credits seperately, 860 kbps for the movie and quant=16 for the credits.