Hi Fishman,
long time no see...
Now that I caught you can I ask you for a small favor?
Your FFmpeg 2-pass VBR parameters went into my plugins for AVStoDVD and also for DVDStyler, and the DVDStyler plugin got so popular that the author decided to integrate it transparently into the Windows version of DVDStyler. It basically uses your original parameters, the only exception is that the Fox New matrix gets used instead of the MPEG Adapted matrix.
Now about a week ago GMJCZP posted his own HQ 2-pass parameters, and for comparing the results of the two different approaches I made a simple test bench script. You can download it here:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.ph...32#post1808832
Could you please take the time and load a few of your critical sources into this script and report the results? For me the quality of the two different encodes looks pretty much the same, but the reason could just be that my vision is not 20/20 any longer...
Cheers
manolito