--preset slow --tune film --crf 19 on BDRemuxes (mkv). How?

[jfromeo]

Hello.

I have a bunch of BDRemuxes in mkv container, each containing a unique video track (AVC or VC-1), audio track (THD, AC-3, DTS-HD or DTS), and subtitle track (SRT).

And I would like to "normalize" the bitrate of all (leaving it at aproximately <20mbps), and thus gain some free space, by doing a "--preset slow --tune film --crf 19" compression of only the video track with x264, leaving the rest untouched.

Is it possible to do it in a quick way? MeGUI could do the job?

Thanks in advance!

[Blue_MiSfit]

Video encoding is always a balance between quality, speed, and bitrate.

--preset slow is certainly not what I'd call "fast" for 1080p sources, even on a very powerful system (dual 3.33Ghz 6 core Xeons are my benchmark).

MeGUI could do this job, sure, but so could any number of GUIs. Use whatever suits your personality :)! For me, this is usually straight command line or batch files

I'd suggest that you peek at how your BluRays would look at 720p, since most of the discs I've seen don't really deserve full 1080p. If you do this, you can probably get almost all of them under 10mbps with total transparency.

Also, ditch the lossless audio. Talk about a waste of space!

Just my two cents ;)

Derek