Which encoder is faster?
"TMPGenc 2.5 plus" or "CCE SP 2.5 and Avisynth 2.5"?
If it's TMPGenc 2.5 plus, then also...
What's the real purpose of Rate Control Method?
Is it really worth having it set to 2-pass VBR(VBR), or is just a waste of time? It does double the amount of time required to encode to MPEG2.... that's all I know
Also, I'm encoding 24 anime episodes (whole season) to a dvd and each one was 200mb when I started. Now they are all going to be 800mb each seeing that the first two I've finished encoding using this guide: (http://www.easy-answers.com/how-to/anime-dvd/menu.asp) are that big.
I've read that Motion search precision maintains good quality when set to "High Quality", but is it worth it if I'm going to be using DVD Shrink to fit em all on one disk... or maybe 5 seeing the way the files sizes have increased
I was hoping for all 24 on one 4.7gb dvd because the download was only 5gb total. I was going to only leave the english audio stream, remove the subtitles, and slice out the intros-n-credits that are all the same anyways. This should take off atleast 500mb...allowing me to fit them on one dvd. Any ideas?
you should take into consideration that AVI is a compressed video format and that MPEG-2, the one you need for a DVD, is not. Therefore once encoded your new files will be bigger...
If you're a bit picky about quality you should refrain from putting too many movies on one disc; but if you're willing to give in some, then you can reprocess your project with DVDshrink and make it re-fit your project.
But, coming from the limited information you're providing, I risk that you will be able to fit more or less 6 episodes per disc, thus you'll need 3 more discs. It depends on duration and quality, but I haven't had been able to fit more than 6 30 minutes episodes onto one disc.
Hmm.. I wish there were dvd players that could play avi's in fullscreen. If a computer can do it, then a dvd player should be able too sometime. I know that when you compress a video, you normally can't gain quality by decompressing...but rather gain support for dvd players instead. I just don't understand why dvd players couldn't play the video in it's compressed state..i.e allowing you to fit them all onto a single disk.
Anyways, I guess 6 per disk is better than nothing. At least the dvd wouldn't get overheated.
