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Originally Posted by Justjoe View Post
Also, it depends on the scene, so some vids will look/ run better than others, despite the same settings; a dialogue-based movie look better than a fight scene which will look better than an action-based sci-fi movie with tons of camera pans and odd backgrounds. A camera pan across a cluttered room seems to be the toughest to handle, whereas a boxing match might run smoothly at the same setting since there's less work being done.
MBWOTO Given a fixed bitrate, it doesn't really matter how dynamic a scene is, the amount of data to be pushed around is usually the same (unless it's *totally* static, of course). There are two ways around this:

a) Use 1 pass fixed bitrate. Yes, gets artifacts on intense action but hey, better blocky than choppy, right ?

b) Use a bitrate cap. If you use mencoder this is done with -lavcopts vrc_maxrate=700 not sure for other SW/codecs.

EDIT: And the oft overlooked single most playback quality killer on the NIT: 48000Hz audio streams. Conversion of those to 44100 is a must.

Last edited by attila77; 2009-03-15 at 00:35.
 

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