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sparknburn
22nd January 2008, 02:33
I've been doing HD-DVD to MP4 rips using two passes in MeGui.

Today I did a 1 pass encode for testing purposes, which took around 3 hours.

The quality is almost no different from the two pass encode and plays fine on my 360.

Is the 2nd pass needed? It seems like it always takes 12-15 hours.

Of course using this method, you lose 5.1 DD but I'm OK with that. Would I get similar results using WME and keeping the 5.1?

xbxduke
23rd January 2008, 10:52
x264 is a very excellent encoder and it seems for me faster than wme. But i had problems with streaming to my xbox360 with mp4 >4GB.
So i took wme with 2-pass-vbr-peak. It takes ~50 hours with my QuadCore Q6600 but it streams smoothly to my xbox360.