Presets???

It would be great if you could implement a preset support like in the Lame-Encoder (preset standard, etc.). Then we could make some presets to make this codec more userfriendly. Big_Berny

Yes, Perhaps you're right. But I think the problem is, that everybody has is own settings, and people who don't want to test 10 hours to encode a movie don't know what to do. There are a lot people who ask, which are the best settings and somebody sais "Use the search-button". But nowhere you can find this settings. Everybody has other settings, I think we should test together somme settings and then they can be set to the default-settings. There is no guide with good settings. Iago's guide was very good, but now it's a little bit outdated. Big_Berny

Yes, but we could update the "perfect" settings. I'll try to start a Thread in which are good settings for the newest XviD-Codec, but I need your help and assistance. Stay tuned! (I don't know if I can say that, my english isn't perfect...) Big_Berny

I'd be glad to help. In fact I was just thinking about that because I recently (i.e. yesterday) found some perfect settings for an anime I'm encoding, through endless trial and error.

IMHO, there's not so much in XviD-settings that you'd have to change depending on content; it's more of a problem to determin which settings are good for what bitrate. Also the fast development of XviD in conjunction with our evolving understanding of settings has caused some confusion - what we had thought was a good setting in the beginning turned out not to be later (like modulated quantizers). If you look at the devel-list, presets are definitely a thing we'll see in a future version.

Muha, look at dev-api-4's vfw :).

So I should wait for the presets? Or do you want to create list of good settings for different movies and bitrates? Big_Berny

presets would be interesting since i'm sure you xvid developers have settings for some commom movies (eg. the matrix) that cannot be beaten by anyone else :)