Encoding VC1 to x264 - how ????

[mbossman]

I am backing up my HD DVD collection onto my HTPC and would like to save some hard drive space. I took a HD DVD and was able to demux the EVO so that i had a ddp audio file and vc1 video file. The extension for the video file is .vc1. Now i have tried h264enc without sucess to encode the vc1 to h264. I was able to use ffmpeg to encode the video to h264 but i don't know the "in and outs" of ffmpeg to get high enough quality. Can anyone suggest either a ffmpeg cmd line options or another program / script.

Thanks

Mike

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