DivX/H.264/MPG/WMV/XviD/Other

[hoborg]

Manualy.
My recording are in MPEG2.
MpegVideoWizard to cut/remove comercial
XviD4PSP to deinterlace/remove black borders and convert to H.264 (great software!)

[ACTCMS]

I use MVPs for live TV and watching recordings so I record DVB-T to MPEG2 using the Cyberlink mux, edit out ads with MPEG_Streamclip and leave it like that... I do tend to buy disks though...

I am planning on having a go with the ts mux soon...

[merc82]

I used MeGUI to encode to Xvid. I'm starting to mess with h264 but it's still Xvid so I can play files on my DVD player.

[gazoo]

I only encode stuff to play on my Blackjack pocket pc smartphone (2 hour movie = 300MB) and the occasional DVD (2 hour DVD = 750MB) to store forever if I like the movie. I use pocketdivxencoder to go from mpeg, DVD, or larger AVI to .avi XVID. Standard def stuff from GBPVR I use stattick's scripts (which is also xvid I think), but dvr-ms hi def, i'm stumped. DVRMSToolkit looks like it works, but then I have to go from that to MPEG2 to AVI (so it's DVR-MS->MPEG2->AVI, too many steps.)

[gEd]

What do they use (specifically) on the net to make the perfect AVIs that are only about 350 meg per hour of video???

From my limited knowledge of the subject I understood that the good rips (such as as axxo's) are 2-pass encoding similar to what you would get with autogk. I thunk that the key thing they do is to drop the resolution down but still keep a reasonable bit rate. This helps to keep the file size down.

I think that the 2-pass xvid encodes from Stattik's script produce similar results.

[TonyXL]

Can people post their x264 command lines? I'm like to switch from Xvid to x264, but it seems like you need a lot more command line options to get good x264 results. I currently use Xvid 2-pass using mencoder.

[BTJustice]

I'd change my vote to XviD more than likely after today...

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post327755

[Reddwarf]

ffmpeg -i "%1" -threads 2 -s 768x576 -pass 2 -vcodec h264 -b 1200k -flags +loop -cmp +chroma -partitions +parti8x8+parti4x4+partp8x8+partp4x4+partb8x8 -me umh -subq 7 -trellis 1 -refs 6 -bf 16 -directpred 3 -b_strategy 1 -bidir_refine 1 -coder 1 -me_range 16 -g 250 -keyint_min 25 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -bt 142282 -rc_eq "blurCplx^(1-qComp)" -qcomp 0.6 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -qdiff 4 -acodec mp3 -ar 44100 -ab 128k -y %2%