Need Help. Am I using the right settings.

[markjayne]

I'm capturing my video using the DV-Type 1 setting. After editing I save my video as a WMV 9 file as I use my video's on the internet. I usually use a setting of 2000kb at 90 quality and a resolution of 384x288 plus de-interlace.
My questions are.....

What does the Decoder complexity setting do.

If my video is 3 minutes long and I don't want to exceed 50mb, what would be the settings for best overall quality.

Is WMV 9 the best to go for.

These questions may seem a little daft, but I just want the best possible quality I can get considering the circumstances.

[troppo]

I am using both Flash Video and Quicktime for my online videos. I make a copy of both and let the downloader decide which format to use. But then again, I'm not trying to get super good quality, just an example. The quality is good enough though.

[THoff]

The Decoder Complexity is an indication of how powerful the hardware has to be in order to decode the video in realtime. Today's desktops and laptops can handle Complex, as can devices such as media players that have WMV acceleration built in. Less powerful systems like Pocket PCs can handle Main.

IMHO, the bitrate you are using is way too high for such a small video. I encode my WMV9 video using the Complex setting at 1Mbps for 640x360 (16:9 square pixel) video, and it looks great.

[THoff]

Mark, here are the exact settings that I'm using -- copy the text below to the clipboard and save it in a text file with a .PRX extension using Notepad. You will then be able to load (and modify if you wish) this template in MediaStudio Pro.

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        <profile version="589824" 
             storageformat="1" 
             name="640x360 1Mbps VBR" 
             description="640x360 1Mbps VBR"> 
                   <streamconfig majortype="{73647561-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}" 
                   streamnumber="1" 
                   streamname="Audio Stream" 
                   inputname="Audio409" 
                   bitrate="192000" 
                   bufferwindow="3000" 
                   reliabletransport="0" 
                   decodercomplexity="" 
                   rfc1766langid="en-us" 
                           vbrenabled="1" 
                           bitratemax="288072" 
                           bufferwindowmax="1500"> 
             <wmmediatype subtype="{00000161-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}"  
                   bfixedsizesamples="1" 
                   btemporalcompression="0" 
                   lsamplesize="8192"> 
           <waveformatex wFormatTag="353" 
                         nChannels="2" 
                         nSamplesPerSec="48000" 
                         nAvgBytesPerSec="24000" 
                         nBlockAlign="8192" 
                         wBitsPerSample="16" 
                         codecdata="008800000F0000800000"/> 
            </wmmediatype>
            </streamconfig>
                   <streamconfig majortype="{73646976-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}" 
                   streamnumber="2" 
                   streamname="Video Stream" 
                   inputname="Video409" 
                   bitrate="1000000" 
                   bufferwindow="3000" 
                   reliabletransport="0" 
                   decodercomplexity="CP" 
                   rfc1766langid="en-us" 
                           vbrenabled="1" 
                           bitratemax="1000000" 
                           bufferwindowmax="5000"> 
                     <videomediaprops maxkeyframespacing="50000000" 
                                     quality="100"/> 
             <wmmediatype subtype="{33564D57-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}"  
                   bfixedsizesamples="0" 
                   btemporalcompression="1" 
                   lsamplesize="0"> 
       <videoinfoheader dwbitrate="1000000" 
                        dwbiterrorrate="0" 
                        avgtimeperframe="333667"> 
        <rcsource left="0" 
                  top="0" 
                  right="640" 
                  bottom="360"/> 
        <rctarget left="0" 
                  top="0" 
                  right="640" 
                  bottom="360"/> 
            <bitmapinfoheader biwidth="640" 
                              biheight="360" 
                              biplanes="1" 
                              bibitcount="24" 
                              bicompression="WMV3" 
                              bisizeimage="0" 
                              bixpelspermeter="0" 
                              biypelspermeter="0" 
                              biclrused="0" 
                              biclrimportant="0"/> 
       </videoinfoheader>
            </wmmediatype>
            </streamconfig>
     <streamprioritization>
      <stream number="1" mandatory="0"/>
      <stream number="2" mandatory="0"/>
     </streamprioritization>
    </profile>