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And you shouldn't telecine since your TV should be able to display 23.976fps (by converting to its own framerate). Telecining will just mess up the quality in all likelihood.

Why would he need to pay for a DVD imaging program? Is there really no free and decent tool for backing up DVDs available for OS X?

Rodeo wrote:All encoders. You haven't upgraded to the latest snapshot yet? http://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=15452

Nope, haven't upgraded since I haven't used HB for anything recently. Great move, though...no more wrangling over quality percentage with people who don't know how it works.

Rodeo wrote: Doesn't matter, percentage scale is gone in current code.

yessssss

wait is that for x264 as well or just for ffmpeg

The problems you're seeing aren't clear to me (or others, I suspect) from the screenshots you posted, because you disabled deblocking and because there's a levels issue that's preventing a direct comparison of the quality (your playback program's levels settings are wrong; I hope you're not using VL...

Don't see what's so "insane" about the quality...you're using medium-quality options

The settings you posted: + options: level=31:ref=4:mixed-refs=1:bframes=3:b-adapt=2:direct=auto:weightb=1:b-pyramid=1:me=hex:subq=7:analyse=i8x8,i4x4:8x8dct=1:cabac=1:no-fast-pskip=0:no-dct-decimate=0:mbtree=1:weightp=0:ipratio=1.1:pbratio=1.1:aq-strength=1:deadzone-intra=10:deadzone-inter=10:qcomp=...

merange=64? Where do people get this retarded [censored]? 6 refs for HD? Great way to drive profile inflation. Dump all that [censored], go back to the High Profile preset basics, and work up from there. merange=64 sure is dumb. 6-9 refs is okay for 720p, though, depending on whether the content is...

I can't see your screenshots. Upload them to another site please.

There's no way you're seeing real blockiness in such high-bitrate encodes. I expect it's a decoder error/glitch, like weightp=2 incompatibility. (Or it could be the usual blocking in dark regions, but I doubt it...)

I disabled Detelecine after reading an piece (can't find it now, it's been a while) that stated something to the effect that by leaving it on, could adversly affect movies that were not hard-telecined. Since Detelecine is stateless (can be applied to any sequence), it should be pretty safe to apply...

Thanks, that's useful to know!

I found something out quite interesting, I think anyways.... I decided to do an overnight experiment *again* to find a good balance between speed and filesize encoding my movies. See which functions actually gave a decent decrease in filesize, and which were just time-hogs and did nothing or very l...

CRF has better objective quality metrics than 2 pass, despite being at a lower bitrate. They're not the same. Are you saying this based on a number of tests? I do find it a bit odd. IIRC, there was a very long-running bug that was causing reduced quality under 2-pass. It was fixed only quite recent...

Are you saying that using constant rate factor of 20ish will make for a faster conversion and higher quality than 2-pass? Or are you saying it will just be faster? It will certainly be faster than 2 pass and have the same or better quality at the same bitrate. Small correction - it won't have bette...

Good to hear that MPlayer OSX Extended worked, if only for a while. I can't offer suggestions to fix it because I don't use Mac. (Try reinstalling?) I expect the CCCP maintainers will set ffmpeg-mt to default in the next release. It's true, they're a little behind. An alternative is to use the lates...

Thanks, that helps explain it. I guess I was used to looking at quality in terms of bit rate. I settled on a CQ of 70% and although the resulting bit rate varies between movies, I'm happy with the output. 70% is pointlessly high, though. Anything higher than 67% will produce hardly any further impr...

I know my pc won't play 1080p movies at all, it is a 1.6 core2duo, 4gb ram, 8400GS, 17" standard resolution, community codec pack installed, windows 7, vlc etc just dies on it. First, have you enabled multithreaded H.264 decoding in CCCP Settings? (Look for the "MT" checkbox next to ...

The edges have deinterlacing artifacts, so I'm guessing it's the deinterlacing mode. Do you have Decomb and Detelecine on? The faces themselves do have messy-looking noise or discoloration, but I'd have to see the source frames to be sure the problem's not already in the source. It'd be pretty surpr...

Get a VOB cutter and cut a sample or two. 30 secs to a minute. Upload to Mediafire, post link here.

VLC might be glitching, as I've heard it does from time to time. The good players include MPC-HC, KMPlayer, and a few others - try one of those. I tried to capture some screenshots, but by themselves they might lead you to think I'm paranoid; but in motion the moving/shifting blocks and "rough ...

I used two of the last chapters from The Matrix before deciding, but I found that everything higher than 17 (lower than 66% circa) would show incredibly large visual artifacts (the big square things usually found in the dark): the scene of the last kung-fu battle in the corridor is very dark, and t...

Ah, okay. I'm missing too many things these days.

You only encoded 4 chapters (69553 frames) in your second encode, but you encoded 28 chapters (152792 frames) in the first. Plus you passed through 2 audio tracks in the first and encoded them to AAC in the second. It's completely not comparable. Do encodes with the same settings, changing only the ...

- if I'm not misunderstanding (I'm not english): where is downsizing form PAL (720 hor pixels) to 720 horiz pixels? My mistake, I meant vertical resolution, from 416 to 304. That's throwing away vertical resolution. - as quality is fixed in CQ, more action needs more quantities of data in differenc...

Even for larger frame sizes, merange 24 is just fine from what I've read. Increasing it makes very little difference to final quality/bitrate. Be happy to be proven wrong, though.