encoding @ 16 bits instead of 24

nikkis34 · Messages: 103 Registration: 01.12.2003

I'm pretty sure you'd get a considerable quality loss. But it may be interesting for anime. bb

Iron Chef · Messages: 4,289 Registration: 02.04.2003

16-bit is crap, for normal movies *AND* for anime. and 16-bit was never 16,7 million colors. 16-bit = 65536 colors only! Don't ever ever reduce the color depth to 16-bit. This will give you *ONLY* quality loss and no compressibility advantages!

zeehaa · Messages: 297 Registration: 08.21.2002

HM, i see your point, looked it up myself and you do make sense :p I'm trying to encode dbz episode 230 @ 512-384 precise bilinear. Results are useless. Bitrate = 1580. Looking for an extra thing that could help me save bitrate.

RyanC · Messages: 24 Registration: 03.25.2002

I'm using more filters then i have fingers on my hands. I stick to divx 5.02 by the way, but if anybody have tricks that can save me, please drop a line

doccyber · Messages: 133 Registration: 07.24.2001

@ predatorian Just want to remind you, that the FUNi DBZ DVDs already have crap compression (low bitrate CBR encoding and interlaced instead of progressive). You'll see artifacts all over the place *ON THE DVD*. So don't expect your DivX rip to get perfect quality ;)

PublicEnemy · Messages: 90 Registration: 02.22.2003

i just a quick scan through my collection and have a couple of movies at 16 bit. They seem to look fine to me(wouldnt have known if i had not looked it up). If anyone knows anything about this it would be great to play around with to try myself.

HalcYoN · Messages: 225 Registration: 06.11.2002

The movies you have at 16 bit are probably encoded with DivX4 or a similar codec which also has the same effect. The effect I'm talking about is that when encoding a movie with DivX4 and VDub on fast recompress mode produces a 16 bit movie, VDub on full processing produces a 24 bit movie. This is infact a fake colordepth and both types are 24 bits in reality, that's why they still look great to you.