MPEG Conversion

[Darkness008]

I got some Dr Who episodes on my desktop which I recorded the last months. I cut them down with projectx and this one made mpg from them.

Now I want to free some space and so I need to convert them into H264 (if that is fine enough). But the problem begins here. Is there a tool which makes all steps at once? I tried GordianKnot but there comes now options for H264 and the usability of this is some kind of ... strange for me. I don't want to install much apps like with gordianknot. I think the codec for video and sound would be enough plus the program which makes me able to convert them.

Maybe you people can help me out here.

[joseph5]

MeGUI?

[Darkness008]

What woulds be a good FAST profile to use?

I got an C2D 6430 with the Insane profile I get around 1-4 frames and that is something what I can't understand. Is there a profile which gives me more speed (over 20-30 fps)with nearly the same quality?

[f1tzi.the.cracker]

x264CLIgui?

I'm not sure about the functionality of that one really... I encoded one file with it, the quality was good and it was very straight-forward, but it got the file size too small. In fact, it output a ~72MiB encoded file, for a 1h38min long movie, to which I had allocated 900MiB. I don't know if the i-frame appearing frequency also turned out much lower or something, because when seeking the file in a player it would take several seconds of playback to get the picture correct... The quality with x264, in that 72MiB file, was much better than in a 170MiB+ Xvid encoded with FFmpeg @ ~300kbit/s, though... Then again I wouldn't put my money on my FFmpeg skills.

http://mirror05.x264.nl/
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=89979

Direct links:

x264CLI: http://mirror05.x264.nl/Cef/
GUI: http://mirror05.x264.nl/jeryll/force.php?file=./x264CLIgui_0_1_9b.zip

The executable must be in x264CLIgui directory's root.

I don't know if this even is what you were after, you still need to merge with audio somehow. Anyway I used GordianKnot with ffdshow x264 codec, and encoding was ssslllooow but quality was good. Probably not what you were looking for, though.

http://gabextreme.googlepages.com/x264vfwunited

Direct:
ffdshow x264: http://gabextreme.googlepages.com/DTS_x264_ffds.exe

[J_Darnley]

If you want a target bitrate you cannot get the same quality at that kind of speed increase. You could try the other HQ presets in MeGUI which will provide some speed increase but I doubt you will get 20-30 fps encoded with any HQ preset. If you absolutely want speed over compressed size you could use a constant quality mode (--crf) and look at this thread for speed tips: How to optimize for speed rather than compression? (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=127463) from the AVC forum. Just adjust the encoding settings till you achieve your desired speed.

If you want a GUI to do it all for you, look in the MPEG-4 GUI forum (http://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?f=78) and see if there is one that suits your needs. I should mention that Gordian Knot is horribly outdated, AutoGK is slightly newer but I think I would reccomend AutoMKV for an all in one program. I haven't used the latter two programs but they seem to be quite popular.

[foxyshadis]

What woulds be a good FAST profile to use?

I got an C2D 6430 with the Insane profile I get around 1-4 frames and that is something what I can't understand. Is there a profile which gives me more speed (over 20-30 fps)with nearly the same quality?

That's why there are so many profiles, one's bound to fit. If the HQ are too slow, go with CQ or AE, or even a 1P. There's no list of profile speeds that I know of, currently, but testing with a one minute sample should quickly narrow it down to a few profiles with acceptable speed. Be sure to recognize that the avisynth script also contributes some slowdown, quite a bit with certain options (like EDI).

[mitsubishi]

Funnily enough I was in the same situation, having the entire DW series sat on my HD and got around to encoding this week. For me I used the crf profile set to 20 and got this:

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/9719/dwxt0.png

Encoding was +/- .5 at 13 fps on a E6300.

[cstrikedish]

Sorry for late! I used superavconverter to convert all formats video and audio multimedia files. It is very easy and powerful! I recommend this program in my blog (http://cstrikedish.blogspot.com/). Try it!