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I never thought I'd be using a program from nearly 10 years ago, but I converted a load of my old dvd box sets during lockdown to xvid to alleviate boredom and this software was used because I wanted speed. They say crap in crap out, but my dvds were all commercially well mastered. The Xvids at 0.2 pixels in avi.Net's recommendations were near identical to the originals. I was really surprised by the quality as the build of xvid is Koepi's old 1.2.2 without vaq and old indeed. The later xvid 1.3x are bad by all accounts and installers full of crap.
I did some comparison encodes with AutoGK which uses 1.2.1 withvaq using ESS mode or the other mtk mode and the encodes were very inferior at both 75% 1 pass quality or 2 pass equivalent high bitrates- very blocky. Even Fairuse Wizard's quality slider and own Xvid build could not match the quality of avi.Net, though much better than AutoGK. I wonder if avi.Net program would work in Win10? Probably not. Still an impressive tool.
By the way if you rip your R1 dvd's(interlaced/telecined/hybrids etc with WinX DVD Copy Pro 3.9.2(a giveaway promotion most of the time on the Net!) it automatically ivtc's the dvd as it rips to your folder. Avi.Net throws up a warning message of no need to deinterlace an already ivtc'd source, if you click on its deinterlace option. Now that's handy! |
