I'm bored with encoding...someone tell me what to

While trying to keep the holier-than-thou attitude to a minimum, I'll try to explain my situation. I've done nandub encodes, DivX5 encodes, XVid encodes, VCD, SVCD at every files size. I've tried every noise redction and video restoration filter known to man, I know CCE SP, TMPEG, virtualdub, all the audio processing command line based programs, and every avisynth command out there. I know hwo to make switchable subs on SVCD's ogg/vorbis, how to make switchable audio in SVCD's, DivX, ogg/vorbis. I've done video capturing and encoding. I can problem shoot a process, and know at least 3 methods for doing every step of encoding ( i.e, iVTC(decomb, tmpeg), resizing(simple resize, bicubic a/b), audio processing(resmapling, encoding), etc). I've even made a website for DivX and SVCD encoding(being updated very shortly). Let's face it I've done/experimented until I've done pretty much everything except for DVD authoring, which I don't have a DVD burner.. so not interested in that yet. Here's my dilema -- I'm bored of encoding. I'm sure ther are people out there like me who have tried, experimented, and mastered every program/filter/method out there, like me and need something new. Someone tell me of another aspect of encoding that I have yet to explore that I have not yet tried. I've copied every DVD I could get my hands onto and I'm just flat bored. I think its the reward system that encoding has to offer you, its like psycology, if you do somethign and see it work, it makes you want to do it again, that's why encoding becomes addictive for people, well encoding has lost its luster for me because I've tried everything I can think of, so someone please help me.. I need a new facet of encoding to explore, something obscure.. or maybe something that I've just flat out missed!

Why dont you change from USING tools to MAKING them ... its an old misunderstanding that only coders/developers can contribute to opensource projects, in fact anybody can help ( website creation, writing docs, making guides, etc. ). You could help VirtualDubMod : The summary of all great Vdub mods ( ) MCF : Container ( ) UCI : Codec API ( ) USF : Universal Subtitle Format ( to be founded soon ) Isnt this a real new challenge ;-) ???

buy a DVD burner, re-author multiangle and seamless branching titles.. that's a new definition of fun. It will take you a while till you can do that without actually watching what you're doing on screen...

If you're bored with using things (as I got a couple years ago), I would suggest learning how to program and creating your own tools. Seriously. Or, polish up on and become an on . -h

Why not pass your expertise on to everyone else? The guides I've read make my head hurt. I want to see well written guides and ways to get vob-divx either easily or quickly (or both). I'm sure each process has it's pros and cons (or is everyone re-inventing the wheel??) so why not tell people who don't want to spend all there time testing every possibility? Also why not try and find the ultimate encoding machine, one money no object and one slightly more realistic.

yeah I spend all ym time on irc.aniverse.com. I come back from class and there are like 5 messages with questions abotu encoding.. I'm always a fan of the ever-popular: What program do you use to encode? That one just makes me smile. Yeah I've taught 3 or 4 people how to encode online..takes about 3-4 hours, but its worth it. I think I switch to help making the tools. Would like to help XVid perhaps I'll check into that. Thanks guys

If your rig is idle go here: get the client and crunch down those WUs just a suggestion... :cool: greetz, Uli

How bout you start watching all those movies you encoded? I'm actually being serious. I've seen many people who get so obsessed with encoding movies or downloading movies/warez and adding to their collection yet they never actually use any of the stuff they get. Even if you've watched every movie in your collection, grab one and start over. I keep the director's commentary in all of my SVCDS so I always have an excuse to go back and watch every movie at least twice. If you need a new hobby then buy a guitar, its kept me occupied for the last 12 years.

Uli, Seti can become boring after a while, too... I'm just crunching my 1.685st work unit, but somehow it doesn't have the same spirit anymore - I don't know what it is, but I just thought about quitting it today. On the other hand - I don't have anything else to keep my cpu busy all day long. I can't capture so much that I can encode 18 hours a day ;)

Learn Scenarist, and then let me know how to work the thing