Encoding "Nowhere to Run" and "Mad Max 3" : Very poor quality

[iparout]

Hi.

I have severe problems encoding the movies Nowhere to Run and Mad Max 3. To be more precise, although at 1 CD the compressibility check for both is around 60%, the quality is awefull. Many macroblocks and generally very poor quality (not noise, just poor quality, as if the movie needs more bitrate)). However, when I use 2 CDs, the output files are about 1 GB for each movie (about 450 MB undersize) and the quality doesn't improve that much, so I guess it's not a matter of low bitrate. Keep in mind that most of the times, 50% compressibility checks give me the quality I want, but not with those two movies. I am guessing that those two movies' DVDs (Region 2 - PAL) have very bad quality in the first place and I was wondering if someone who has encoded them in acceptable quality can give me some tips. They are VERY VERY tough to encode. I have used both DivX 5.0.2 Pro and 5.0.5 Pro and the result was the same. Any advice is welcome. To what is worth, I am using GKnot 0.28.5.

Thank you.

[voy1d]

Hey there,

I had similar problems with encoding a movie to xvid, it turned out because lumi masking was enabled thus was causing the problem. Possibly check one of the options in the codec setup, (sorry not familiar with DiVX 5) and try a 1 cd rip with a lower bitrate on audio...

Regards,

voy1d

[iparout]

Thanks for the reply but the settings are ok. They are the ones I use for every movie I encode.

[OvERaCiD23]

This would probably work better in the DivX5 or GKnot forums; anyways, what filters are you using? Older movies (I only know 'Nowhere to Run', with Van Damme (sp?), right?) can be quite noisy and induce compression artifacts. I'd recommend a noise filter such as Convolution3D or FluxSmooth (both now included with GKnot), and see how you like the results. Also, make sure things such as Psychovisual Effects and GMC/Q-Pel are turned off in DivX; those have led to nothing but bad results in my history.