![]() Users have to decide for themselves which quality they like better. I have no idea if this is always true, but when you use the VBR plugin then FFmeg is no longer restricted to the default "Constant Bitrate" mode, so it can also be used for medium and low bitrates. He was adamant that at least for lower bitrates below 3500 kbps FFmpeg produced a better quality output than HCenc. The reason I started my FFmpeg_VBR plugin project was that forum member Fishman0919 requested this for AVStoDVD. There is no doubt that FFmpeg can create very high quality results when the appropriate parameters are used. ![]() Most people will agree that HCenc produces a better quality than FFmpeg, but this really depends on many factors. But for medium or lower bitrates the 2-pass method creates a much better bitrate distribution between the complex and the simpler parts of the source.ĪVStoDVD uses FFmpeg only for very high bitrates by default, in most cases HCenc will be used (always in 2-pass VBR mode for a multicore CPU). Single-pass is based on a modified "Constant Quantizer" method, and for higher bitrates the quality is good. If you care about elaborate menues you should definitely give it a try.ĬonvertXtoDVD is based on FFmpeg, it can use single pass and 2-pass VBR methods. ![]() Not any more, the author integrated my FFmpeg_VBR plugin seamlessly into his software, and now you can get very high quality encodes with DVDStyler. It only uses FFmpeg for transcoding, this really compromised quality until a few years ago. Basically it does the same things as AVStoDVD, but its scope is more on creating menues instead of transcoding quality. But it takes (almost) any videos as the source and converts them to a DVD compatible format, and it uses highest quality encoders for this.Īnother software for DVD creation you might like is DVDStyler. If you need menues you will have to create your own. And the output quality is the best you can get, no comparison to the transcoders like DVDShrink.ĪVStoDVD will not preserve the original menues if your source is a DVD. DVD-RB can only take a DVD structure as the input, but then it keeps the original menu intact. You cannot really compare it to DVD-RB, though. I am very familiar with AVStoDVD, I have been involved in its development for some years. In DVD-RB it should replace the QuEnc encoder which is really too old and deprecated. And for the FFmpeg version I really recommend the version from the "ffmpeg_IMPORTANT.txt" file.īasically this "use_ffmpeg" plugin was a byproduct of my FF_VBR plugins for AVStoDVD and DVDStyler. Just remember that you need to turn off the "Multiple Encoder Processes" option. Yes, it works nicely with the Pro version of DVD-RB. ![]() Is this good to go w/the Pro Version of DVD-RB? It's really great to have alternatives as something always pops up. It won't let me reply with quotes from my phone. The mobile version isn't working that great. Close to 8gb regular and episodic DVDs look like the original. Other than that I really have to admit that DVD-RB Pro using HCEnc is unbelievable. Have you run many jobs using the CC option to see about that? Thanks. I unchecked the CC option on DVD-RB Pro and the oversizing stopped. I just don't know why they don't use it or exactly what it is. There's a way to make video look just like the original and at way smaller sizes than the norm we see. In ConvertXToDVD they also optimize the output as it's almost always more or less. Seems VSO doesn't want to pay the h.264 fee because that's what's down along with the Hardware Optimization not working. What do you think about it? Only ones I'm using now is ConvertXtoVideo and VidCoder. I'm also going to give that Avs2dvd a go. You might be interested in having another high quality choice for the encoder in DVD-RB. It's nice to see that I am not the only person left who still creates DVDs.
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