Re: [Mjpeg-users] Converting DVD from PAL to NTSC

[Greg K. <gr...@ki...>]

On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 13:14, Andrew Stevens wrote:
> > > The final result was a smooth flowing image (on my DVD player) with a
> > > bit less quality than the original - it's a bit blotchy in certain
> > > scenes. The original Dolby Digital (2 channel) sound was preserved.
> >
> > There the -q option might help.
> 
> If it is just certain scenes then you need to boost peak bitrate (the scenes 
> are running out of bits!).

That suggests to me using VBR. I don't know whether the original stream
is VBR and I haven't explicitly enabled VBR for mpeg2enc.

> 
> Just for reference, the peak bitrate on commerical DVDs is often 8000Kbps or 
> more!
> 
> 	Andrew

Thanks, Greg.
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Greg Kilfoyle <gr...@ki...>