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Old 02-23-2005, 04:00 PM
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Default Pocketdivxencoder Settings

I'm converting Movies over from my DVD's and I'd like to get them to a size to fit on a 512mb card, what are some good settings to use? I usually will go to 20 for video. Do you all use the mono audio or Stereo. I tried the stereo setting and for some reason I get a slight worble sound to the audio. My mono conversions have sounded great. I'm playing back on Betaplayer. Does it make a huge difference to use Xvid and 2 pass ?
 
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Old 02-23-2005, 04:08 PM
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I do a lot of DVDs with PocketDivX. Here are the settings I usually use:

Video 12 (248)
Audio 4 (64kbs stereo)
Boost the sound ( I usuallly use 25%)
Brightness +6
2 pass encoding

Mind you, this will fit MOST movies onto a 256 card, and as always YMMV.
 
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Old 02-26-2005, 10:50 AM
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I typically use:

Video - 7
Audio - 3 or 4
Framerate - 25fps
Dimensions - 320x240 (320x176 for widescreen)
Sound - 10%
Type - AVI with MP3 Audio Stream

Makes a file about 250Mb in size with a typical movie. Video and audio a great! It is also really fast compared to other programs.
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Old 03-21-2005, 08:55 PM
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Mind you, this will fit MOST movies onto a 256 card, and as always YMMV.
what do you mean?

i know about 4cc codes but I can't find such a setting!
 
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Old 04-08-2005, 07:52 PM
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what is the benefit of using 2 pass in advanced options?
 
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Old 04-09-2005, 02:23 AM
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what is the benefit of using 2 pass in advanced options?
Better quality - although sometimes, it's not really worth the extra effort. It can help remove the blocky artifacts in fast-moving scenes, but the compromise is more time spent encoding, and a larger file size.
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Old 04-09-2005, 03:07 AM
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ah ok - how much larger (typically)? a few percent or something painful? just curious - i'll experiment around to see what i like. i've been playing around with PDE and Auto Gordion Knot to see which i like better... so far def seems like AGK gives you a lot better quality w/ the same size (found a great tutorial if anyone's interested).

http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showthread.php?t=70567
 
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Old 04-09-2005, 03:09 AM
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ah ok - how much larger (typically)?
It's hard to provide an exact figure on this. It depends on the length of the film, what's in the film (action-packed, or slow documentary, etc.) and what bitrate you're encoding at, among others.

The best way is to experiment with a number of different videos.
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