VBR over multiple files?

[slavickas]

Hi,

dunno if q belongs in this section, but anyway.
I have colection of music videos and would like to keep preview versions on hard disk. Tried recode2 but it seems to assign same bitrate to all files, at least automatically (don't want to move sliders 2000 times :p ). Does exsist such tool, preferably outputting avi or mp4?

[bond]

i dont understand your question? you want to reencode your clips, but with using different bitrates for every clip and all this done automatically?

[RadicalEd]

To do what you want you'd need to join, encode, and then split all your files.

[slavickas]

bond: yes

RadicalEd: jeez 2000 files :eek:

[bond]

you would need a commandline encoder, for which you can set your desired bitrate for every input file seperately, but encode via one batch file automatically each one after the previous one

you could use ffmpeg for this
also i think divx5 can encode via commandline (dunno exactly how tough), also maybe a commandline wrapper exists for xvid?

[RadicalEd]

I think what he wants is an abr over the entire collection rather than preset bitrates for each seperate file. Maybe not though.

[slavickas]

Hi,
yes I wanna encode files automatically as possible, of course probably I would encode 10-30 in bunch, but I would like that application could distribute bitrate over all files autimatically

[bond]

simply open all of the files together (one after another) in an avisynth script (and open/encode this in virtualdub, with your favourite codec)
with this solution you dont have to join the input files, but of course you will need to split the output video (as it will be one big stream), also you will need to have to resize every video to the same resolution in avisynth (unless all videos have the same res already)