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Bunstonious

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Video Encoding
« on February 15th, 2014, 08:57 AM »
Does anyone do video encoding here? Just curious as to what formats everyone prefers.

I myself use Handbrake with x264 and either MP4 or MKV container.

I am testing FFMPEG outputs at the moment (have used it also for years for those weird formats) with VP8 and Vorbis.
Re: Video Encoding
« Reply #1, on February 15th, 2014, 11:28 PM »
VP8 is pretty good, the encoder is quite slow tho.

Has a much much smaller file size.
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Re: Video Encoding
« Reply #2, on February 16th, 2014, 11:48 PM »
I also use Handbrake. With MKV because then I can test the result while encoding, etc.
No interest in Vorbis stuff, personally. I respect it, but my media player won't play it, so it's useless for me... (I only re-encode files that I want to watch on my ageing, but otherwise still fantastic, PopCorn Hour player.)

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Re: Video Encoding
« Reply #3, on February 17th, 2014, 02:37 AM »
Fair call, it's just interesting is all.

I want to find the best option for when I finally sort my media server storage out
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