lithiumus said:
Hey Ady,

I was wondering if you would consider doing another re-encode of the video portion leaving everything else the same. The size of the release leaves about 530mb of room left on a DVD9 which is a significant amount of space that can be used for the video.

Did you use Megui to do the encode and what profile / x264 settings did you use? How large was the final video before you did the x264 encode? Just trying to squeeze every last drop of quality out... The current release is 7200kbs video bitrate. You can probably get to 8000 if you used up the rest of the 530mb.

I know it takes a long time to re-encode and I'd offer to do it if I had the files or can get them from you...

unfortunately the original uncompressed video no longer exists. It took up an enormous amount of space and i needed the space for ESB so i had to delete it. I pushed the bitrate up to 7600kbs and it became too big to fit the disc with all the audio tracks. there was no visual difference between that and the 7200kbs final one. ESB will probably have a larger bitrate because it will only have the 2 audio tracks unless i manage to find the DVD web commentaries, which isn't looking too good at the moment.