> John Golitsis wrote: > > At 10mpbs, you can start to see some minor banding in gradients and > some noise in the darker areas. I'd certainly call it passable > though. The interesting thing is that the degradation in quality is > very graceful with increased compression. If anybody wants to take > a > look, here's the 1 minute clip at FOUR Mb/s (30MB file). My Mac > plays this smoothly with no dropped frames, but my PC is dropping as > much as 50%. > John, are you using AVC High profile ? One of the link provided on this list at a time said it offered a quality undistinguishable from the original at 16 mbps, and entertainment level HDTV at 8Mbps. So it is a bad sign that you see so obvious examples of degradation as soon a 10 Mbps. To be sure, i don't remember whether the statement was for 720p or 1080p. But you should be in a favourable case, since your material has only 720p content anyway. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.