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View Full Version : Motion Search Precision & Beta vs 2.5x (and a really long movie)


plonk420
14th March 2004, 15:50
easiest, shortest question first: which is better, 2.5x or Beta12? i did a google and didn't find too many sites, but one i looked that comapred b12 with 2.53 .. just didn't feel right. like they were trying to skew it almost... http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/articles/tmpgenc_test.html .. that's the link, just in case...


also, the main thing i was looking for (on google, but not having much success) was Motion Search Precision... as CCE mysteriously stopped working for me, i'm having to switch to TMPGEnc. i'm encoding one of the LOTRs to a 1DVD, and any time i can shave off what looks to be at LEAST a 26 hr 2 pass encode would be nice (i was doing a 6 pass in 18 hours in CCE...!) if the difference between Highest and High, or Highest and Normal isn't that much...

(i'm going to 4:3 LBX to save bitrate in the LBXing as i don't see a 16:9 or HDTV in my near future, FYI)

Abond
14th March 2004, 16:31
About the shortest question - it is long way from the 2.53 times, so IMHO the last version(s) of TMPG are better than beta12...
About motion search precision I'll be of little help here, may be it is not bad idea to look here (http://www.kvcd.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=29)
If you lack the speed of CCE try with mencoder. There are couple interesting threads in Other MPEG-1,2 Encoders forum.
I would go with High...
Good luck.

plonk420
14th March 2004, 23:54
thanks for the reply. how good is mencoder's quality? can it do 2+ passes and can you force a bitrate (say, for credits)?