Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
Q level? Explain for us mortals.

I'll do my best. Hopefully, TR47 will let me know if I am right or wrong on this and jump in. The Q stands for quantization. Q-Level is a bit tricky. In MPEG terms, it describes how much information is thrown away to reach a target bitrate that you set. My encoder, TMPENGEnc Plus, describes the q as quality.

So, my basic understanding is that if you set the proper Q-Level for your bitrate, you won't be throwing away too much information and degrade the output quality. I'm rusty on this because I use 2 pass Variable bitrate instead of Constant Quality which is the encoding method that you set the Q-Level or Quality Level from 0 to 100.

For more information, check this link.

Hope this helps.

BTW, I'm experimenting with recapturing my LD set. I don't know if I can match TR47's, but I know I can do better than my own previous effort.

Patrick