Does any encode DivX with Flask?

[lastig21]

What type of cpu are you using and what kind of framerates are you getting? Also, what type of compression (bilinear or bicubic?)

 

[nj]

I've been doing a bit of enconding in flask and having a helluva time with it. I'm using a 1ghz p3 with low-motion and bi-cubic. I'm getting around 10fps encoding when I try to encode around 480x320 (or something like that) ...

I've get 15fps encoding when I encode with bilinear and at 320x240 (or whatever).

My question is, how does one get movies on one cd? Is it just a crap shoot? I've tried everything with low-motion and I still only get down to 800 megs (and it looks like junk). I push the res all the way up and my divx stutters like hell. I put in the middle and it looks great, plays great but is 900 megs. I've tried cropping the black (inside the picture a couple pixels), I've tried mp3'ing at a lower rate, but everything just shaves off very small amounts of megabytes (and takes me 3-4 hours to find it out).

Oh and fast motion looks like an eidos video intro ... blocky and screwed up.

So what's the magical settings for non-action movies? I'm stumped. I'm ready to move onto another program, or just settle for 2 cds (ech.)

 

[nj]

crud... first double post

 

[coolVariable]

I never ever had a movie that fit on 1 CD!
Most (medium quality) movies come on 2 CDs!
If you want good quality go with 3 CDs!

 

[sandorski]

720x480
HQ Bicubic
Low Motion
320kbits mp3

10.2 fps

Athlon 1.2ghz 266
256mb Apacer PC2100 DDR ram
using 3dnow enhanced exe

 

[Antisocial Virge]

<< If you want good quality go with 3 CDs! >>



If they get that big you might as well do SVCD so you can watch it on your standalone also.

 

[Nevyn522]

Some of us would rather just fit it on one CD... even if quality drops. 🙂

If you're having trouble fitting a movie onto a CD, there are various bitrate calculators available online that you give the length of the movie, destination size, lo or hi motion codec, and maybe the sound quality (depends on the app), and it tells you what size bitrate you should use.

In answer to the original post... I get under a frame a second. Guess who's upgrading...

 

[lastig21]

I'm using a Tbird @935. I encode at 512x(whatever the height turns out to be) using HQ bicubic with 128k mp3. I get about 8.5 frames per second.

If I were to span a divx out across multiple cd's, i would defintely encode to VCD to watch it on the standalone player. I personally always fit a movie onto one 80min cd. So far, all the movies look really good when watching them on the tv using a voodoo 3 3500. I can notice the lower quality on a monitor, but not on a tv.

To calculate all the bitrates to compress a movie to one cd, I use AdvBitRate Calculator 1.5 I bet there are more precise ones out there, but this one gets the job done. Thanks for all the posts, and if someone gets a dual athlon 4 system, resurrect this thread with those numbers.

 

[jinglingxl]

Why flask? it takes much longer than using Mpeg2Avi, with Ac3dec, and VirtualDub.
Usually I calculate the bitrate that will fit on one cd frist...and subtract about 20 from that number just calculated so that I will have a smaller size than what it will be to fit a cd just to be sure that it will fit. If it still doesnt fit, I just cut out the credit, ususally that takes as much as 6-8 mins of the movie ! so that can reduce the size alot.

btw AdvBitRate is at least up to version 1.8

 

[randomlinh]

i tried encoding matrix, in full widescreen (minus the bars).. making it so it would fit on a CD made it look horrible 🙁 two was the only way to go.

oh yeah, don't remember the framerate.. all i remember is low-motion.. but it took 14hrs 🙁 celery 800, 128mb

 

[Aihyah]

best way i guess.. not as easy😛

http://www.digital-digest.com/nickyguides/nandub.htm

 

[Shudder]

I haven't tried nandub yet. Had it for months, haven't used it 😀

If you want an EASY way to get really decent looking 1 cd rips, get Fair Use.

I found it at doom9.org and it takes a LONG time to do a movie, but it's worth it. Reason is if you set it to the general 4 streams, it encodes 1 fast motion, one high, medium, and low quality low-motion and picks the best from them all.

Plus the BEST reason is because of this, you can get a movie to perfectly be 700 megs. Before you start you pick your sound rate (I usually go with 96kpbs) and then set my max size to about 695 just to be safe and I get a movie that looks nice, is about EXACTLY 1 cd, and doesn't sound bad at all.

What's cool also is you pick the resolution, but I go based off compression rate. For instance, it might show that 640x480 is 200:1 compression but I drop the resolution so it's somewhere around 90-100:1