h264 conversion program

[ToiletDuck]

I'm currently using H264info.exe to convert the level of my h264 files. I originally encoded them to play on a media PC but I've since tossed increased the diskspace in it, put it in a closet, and have windows home server on it. All of my music, movies, tvshows, pictures, etc. all stream now to my PS3. I like this setup better as it just seems to work more "integrated" with everything else I have with a minimal amount of wires.

The PS3 needs the h24 files to be level 4.1 and not 5.1 that all of mine are decoded at. I'm currently using H264info to convert them however the program only uses 1 core of my CPU. Are there any other programs that are relatively easy to use and utilize multiple cores?

[nurbs]

H264info doesn't do what you think it does. It rewrites the bitstream and changes flags, like the level, removes pulldown, ect. Multithreading doesn't make much sense since it's mainly limited by the speed of the harddisk. If your file is level 5.1 (and not just accidently labeled 5.1) and you change the level to 4.1 in that way it still won't play on hardware that only supports level 4.1

[dat720]

Mencoder i feel is the best encoder around!

I use it all the time, use on eof its GUI's and you can't go wrong, try MeGUI... or if your brave go straight for the command line!

PS it uses all available cores.... but don't be expecting it to be as fast as h264info, as Mencoder will be transcoding the stream, not just rewriting tags as nurbs has stated.