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743843 2009-02-01 05:37:00 hi

just doing a bit of video recoding (from lossless format) at the moment. just wondering what the current best quality to file size codec is at the moment.
trying to get a 3min 640x480 clip down to a usable size to upload.
tweak'e (69)
743844 2009-02-01 06:23:00 I personally use Xvid for everything...I use AutoGK Blam (54)
743845 2009-02-01 06:34:00 What do you consider a "usable size to upload"?

I uploaded a 6 minute clip last night, it was 76mb, I was happy with that.
Metla (12)
743846 2009-02-01 07:03:00 usable....under 10meg. original file is 220meg. tweak'e (69)
743847 2009-02-01 07:31:00 h.264 for sure!

If you can, try and use the x264 encoder, definitely the best!
Chilling_Silence (9)
743848 2009-02-01 21:37:00 h.264 for sure!

If you can, try and use the x264 encoder, definitely the best!

x2

Download Handbrake, and give that a go (props to Chill for putting me onto that!) :thumbs:
nofam (9009)
743849 2009-02-01 22:08:00 unfortunatly handbrake doesn't reconise the file. i had problems with virtualdub working with the file to.

been useing 'super' which is doing a fairly good job. just lots of playing around to see what settings produce what.

btw a neat little screen capturing program and codec is CamStudio. good old open source to the rescue ;)
tweak'e (69)
743850 2009-02-02 00:01:00 h.264. It has the highest quality to size ratio so far. But it needs a lot of processing power to decode. utopian201 (6245)
743851 2009-02-02 02:05:00 h . 264 . It has the highest quality to size ratio so far . But it needs a lot of processing power to decode .

A lot to encode too :p

I encoded an 8Gb . iso to an h . 264 . mkv file (1500 fps) on my old P4 3 . 0Ghz, and it took about 11 hours!!! :rolleyes:

Would love a Core i7 . . . . . . .
nofam (9009)
743852 2009-02-02 02:12:00 1500fps? You mean thats the video bitrate, not fps? Because you would encode the video so it plays at around 29.97fps, but it would be doing the encoding potentially a lot slower on that system of yours.

That itself seems horribly slow, on a 2Ghz system I can do a 2-pass encode in a couple of hours tops?
Chilling_Silence (9)
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