Which settings to use to get quality encodes.

I think it would be nice to know which settings effect speed without giving much quality in return.... I mean you can make some nice quality encodes with XviD, but if your not careful with the settings you can end up making a 3-5hr encode take over 9hrs easy maybe even 12hrs or longer with filters added. XviD... the way encoding was meant to be ;)

1) use the search function, you will find tons of quides and threads which will answer your questions 2) if still something is unclear or you want to share your ideas use the thread to ask such questions and dont start a new one...

@SunMar Most of your questions will be answered by my guide. Have a look. See my signature. @NeVeRLiFt Have you read my guide? ;) Otherwise produce great quality with other codecd that are faster! :D But I think, there are none! Or which are these, you use? :cool:

i really dont want to offend anyone but every of your questions (sunmar and nevermind) is already answered in this forum and in documents linked to in this forum. all the knowledge people in here have, they are having because of reading this forum, so search and you will find... but perhaps someone with too much free time is going to answer your questions although i dont know what will happen if koepi reads this thread before ;)

Good ole koepi ;) Guess you dont know the answer there bound but can spam away and make idle threats :rolleyes:

@NeVeRLiFt of course speed depends on your settings, but in most cases and in my case it depends on quality settings and not on wrong settings. speed also depends on your cpu system. probably an encoding on 900MHz machine will last longer than on a 3GHz machine. but it is your choice. i recommend you stay with other codecs.

snowbeach: @SunMar Most of your questions will be answered by my guide. Have a look. See my signature. Thnx, it looks pretty thorough. Will read it after I finish this reply ;). bond: i really dont want to offend anyone but every of your questions (sunmar and nevermind) is already answered in this forum and in documents linked to in this forum. I'm not offended, I know what it's like to have newbies come in and ask questions which could be easily answered by the search button. I didn't expect that all replies would be answers and your reply didn't surprise me either. all the knowledge people in here have, they are having because of reading this forum, so search and you will find... True, but IMHO there's a limit on how much time one should spend on searching. If I have a guide (snowbeach's hopefully :)) that answers the questions I could figure them all out in about 20 minutes tops. When that's the case I do not want to spend several hours going through dozens of threads in the forum of which like 90% doesn't even come close to answering my question, but to find my answer I'd have to check them out anyways. I spent ~30 minutes on reading the XviD FAQ, a guide and some threads I ended up in through the FAQ and some other threads that were recently replied to. After that I spent another ~45-60 minutes using the Search button to find out more information. So, IMHO ~1h30m is plenty of time to look for answers compared to the 20m I'd need when I had a good guide, after that I decided to just post my questions. but perhaps someone with too much free time is going to answer your questions although i dont know what will happen if koepi reads this thread before ;) Like I said when I posted this thread: I don't expect everything to get answered. Perhaps somebody with too much free time will answer, perhaps not, we'll see :). I'm asking questions, not demanding answers and am satisfied with any links I'm given.

damn double post

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Hi, you should avoid Lumi Masking as it is currently buggy. Also, New Modulated HQ should be avoided as it breaks MPEG4 specifications. I would recommend you H263 quantification matrix. B Frames should be an option as it can help a lot for 1 cd movies. But it's up to you. But you should use 0 instead of -1 for B Frames as it uses a completely different (and probably more efficient) algo for I/P/B decision without inserting any B Frame. To finish, you should use Koepi's latest build: its date is 14/05/03 (compared to Nic's 30/03/03), it is less buggy (hoppefully) and has a greatly improved VHQ mode. Cheers, Pasqui.