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PositronCannon · 2010-07-01, 17:25

If you just want an Xvid AVI encode (you shouldn't use that as your primary format though, it's kinda ancient by now), make sure you use 2 pass mode and a decent bitrate. You can use the bitrate calculator to estimate the value you should use depending on the size you're aiming for. Most Xvid 480p (there's very little reason to use a higher resolution with Xvid since the point is hardware compatibility and you can't go over a certain res for that) encodes are between 175 and 230MB, I'd say.

In my case, I've encoded a 23 minute per episode series with 2 pass 1000 kbps, from clean DVD sources, with acceptable quality loss, at 187MB per episode. Of course, with H264 you could go even lower in the size scale and get equal or even better quality (but recent anime is usually at least 720p anyway, so you'd obviously need more bitrate for that).

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PositronCannon Senior Member Fansubber Join Date: May 2010 Location: Spain Age: 33	If you just want an Xvid AVI encode (you shouldn't use that as your primary format though, it's kinda ancient by now), make sure you use 2 pass mode and a decent bitrate. You can use the bitrate calculator to estimate the value you should use depending on the size you're aiming for. Most Xvid 480p (there's very little reason to use a higher resolution with Xvid since the point is hardware compatibility and you can't go over a certain res for that) encodes are between 175 and 230MB, I'd say. In my case, I've encoded a 23 minute per episode series with 2 pass 1000 kbps, from clean DVD sources, with acceptable quality loss, at 187MB per episode. Of course, with H264 you could go even lower in the size scale and get equal or even better quality (but recent anime is usually at least 720p anyway, so you'd obviously need more bitrate for that).