NuEnc 0.01b Explanation of Options (if not already obvious :) ---------------------- MPEG-1 - Select MPEG1 encoding MPEG-2 - Select MPEG2 encoding CBR - Select Constant Bitrate Encoding VBR - Select Variable Bitrate Encoding CQ - Constant Quality (average Quantiser) encoding mode Quality - Value between 0-100, 0=worst quality, 100=best quality Passes - Select the number of passes you want to do Keep All - Allows you to keep all the passes (except first pass). Use Trellis Quantisation - Improves quality (at slight cost of speed) Turbo - Do a fast first pass at the cost of slightly inaccurate stats GOP Size - Self explanatory :) (max 50) Max B-Frames - The maximum number of consecutive b-frames allowed Interlaced Encoding - Enable options to optimise encoding of interlaced material DC Precision - The number of bits of precision (8=Good for any encode, no need to increase this) Forced Closed GOP - Use a closed GOP (doesn't work with scene detection or dynamic b-frames yet) Dynamic B-Frames - Allow encoder to chose when to use b-frames (like in Xvid/DivX). Might be better to turn off for low bitrate encode. Max Bitrate - Self explanatory Buffer Size - Chose a buffer size (DVD=224KB,SVCD=112KB???,VCD=40KB) Apect Ratio - Self explanatory RC Variability - 1 = Constant Quality, 0 = Constant Bitrate. 0.5 is default (Use 1 for high bitrates). Noise Reduction - may help very low bitrate encoding (VCD) MB Decision - Alters how the encoder selects a MC MB. Least Bits=high quality (fast), RD=very high quality (slow). Compare Function - SAD=good(fast), SATD=best(slow) Search size - Adaptive is faster, Diamond is a little better. Larger value corresponds to larger search size. Happy Encoding!