Mister Hatt wrote:MPEG4 does not mean H.264. It can be multiple codecs (and containers). MPEG4-AVC is what bluray has. MPEG4-ASP for example is what XviD and DivX are. VC-1 is by no means a shitty codec, it just isn't as good as AVC. There are times when MPEG2 is better than AVC as well.
Constant ratefactor is there because it's useful, while constant quantizer is there for situations which require it, mostly for testing purposes. x264 is after all still in alpha.
VFR is usually used at 23.976fps and 29.970fps together, which is more than 2 fps difference and can reduce a 24 minute episode to 19 minutes. It does impact bitrate quite significantly. You probably don't notice motion problems because you don't seem to understand how anything works, and as you stated in regard to the FMA troll bluray, you're quite obviously blind. Your last sentence doesn't even make sense, especially as you grouped bluray as a picture coding standard like PAL and NTSC when in reality it's a format that uses those standards. I wonder if you even know how to IVTC something properly or not. A fair bit of anime for example is natively 29.970fps in the first place and doesn't require IVTC. Bakemonogatari for example is VFR with telecined, soft telecined, and progressive material all in a single episode on the DVD. You would fuck that up massively by IVTCing the entire thing.
as for your MPEG-4 rant, I already know the difference between part 2 and part 10, but thanks for telling me what I already know. DivX is crap so it's stupid to even care that that is MPEG-4 because it is a POS codec and that is why it is not standardized on any disc. vfr is a stupid idea, if people do that I will simply split the media and IVTC the the telecine, force film the soft telecine, and preserve the progressive, btw I have IVTC'd a progressive DVD of the first bleach movie and all it did was basically make it look exactly the same. see my riding and soaring far video for that. and of course birate will differ if framerate fluctuates more than 2 fps, that's why I qualified my statement earlier, or are you ignoring me? the naotaku flcl videos look fine. I'm not blind, FMA is just a really great upscale. when I said pal and ntsc I was referring to dvds, blu rays are universally 720p,1080i,1080p so the 480i/576i and 480p/576p is not something that I wanted to discuss. the naotaku flcl videos will show you I can IVTC.