Which settings for maximum qualtiy?

[Turbonutter]

Hello there.

I'm trying to encode Donnie Darko to full resolution with XviD onto two CDs. I wanted about 1200mb of video, however I can't seem to hit this target. Best I can do is these:

689M DONNIEDARKO 2.avi
685M DONNIEDARKO 4.avi
669M Donnie Darko Large.avi

The first two are your usual suspects of two-pass settings with relevant VHQ levels in the filename. The last one is the one-pass quality 100 with VHQ 2 I think.

Anyway the quality isn't perfect on these so I'd like to get more video data into it if I can. Could someone please tell what the absoute maximum bit-eating settings are for XviD to get a great looking encode?

Thanks.

[Tommy Carrot]

Use mpeg quantizer, larger resolution if possible (720*xxx), don't use qpel or b-frames.

[iago]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?threadid=64215

:)

[Selur]

Yup, take one of the more accurate mpeg custom matrices and there should be no undersized problem. (was able to do a 2CD Rip of Donnie Darko some while back. ;) )

CU Selur

[Turbonutter]

Thanks!