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Shadarr · 04/12/2008 08:23 AM

If I may chime in..

I have been tinkering with compressing and archiving videos since the mid 90s, and when the first TV capture cards came out, been loving it ever since.

I just wanted to say, great conversation of comparing compression settings that you both have found on your own. As you know, anyone messing with these things must remain open minded and be willing to change/alter their settings every once in a while as new improvements come along.

I wanted to offer an 'outside view' of what you guys have submitted so far (the two Max Payne comparisons).

Assassin, yours seems to have more detail/sharpness; but at the cost of artifacts, namely Gibbs Effects ('mosquito noise') and macroblocks. I actually find the blocks odd, because you state you use a mostly quantized form of compression.

Sonik, your Max Payne vid has hardly any blocking at all, but gets quite smoothed out (one of the ways TmpegEncXpress quantizes out the data) in motion areas. Tmpegencxpress by the way, will use the bitrate you set as a variable bitrate and then quantize based on your settings after that (if there is enough bitrate, it keeps the sharpness of material - if you choose Variable Bitrate).

It's hilarious, you are both so close to that Holy Grail of Perfect Balance Between Detail and Compression... great samples submitted by both.

Good luck in your experiementations! Keep it up

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