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  • On2 Flix Pro settings

    Posted by Video J 401 on April 15, 2007 at 6:07 pm

    Hello everyone,

    I currently use Flix Pro v8.52 to encode videos that avg 1 – 3min ea. (music videos)
    I am looking to get higher quality video & audio @ lower bitrates.
    I have an Intel based Mac Pro, (2) dual core 3.0GHz Xeon processors, 4GB of RAM…
    My videos seem to be limited to 300 total bitrate (260 video, 40 audio) & 15 fps to be smoothly played on an older Pentium 3 PC (451 Mhz processor, 256 MB RAM, wireless, cable modem). Higer bitrates make the video play choppy, but @ the 300 total bitrate, the video is not choppy, but only comparable to YouTube quality.
    History.com provides high quality video on the Pentium 3 machine, how do they do it?
    Do they use a different encoder, like Kulabyte?
    Do I just need to have the correct settings in Flix Pro?

    Here are the seetings I am using…

    480×360 output dimensions
    260 maximum video bitrate
    20,050 Hz audio
    40 kBits/s
    2-pass VBR
    60 keyframes
    deinterlace
    cropped to 704×480 (4:3 aspect ratio)
    “Good” quality VP62, 75% CPU

    Any help would be much appreciated.
    Thanks

    Daniel Low replied 19 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Daniel Low

    April 17, 2007 at 2:18 pm

    I’d say you should be using a maximum frame size of 320×240 at that bitrate.
    can you clarify what your keyframe setting is? – Generally it should be at 10x the frame rate – or in your case every 150 frames.

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