Proper Handbreak Xvid settings

[A_51]

Hello all
It's been a long time. I'm having a hard time obtaining the same results on Handbreak as on AGK with MP4 (Xvid). On AGK my settings are Constant Quality of 90% and the resulting file is beautiful. Why do stick to Xvid? Hardware processing power limitation. H264 takes too much time for my liking. Does anyone know how to properly set up the video on Handbreak to have the same result as AGK with such settings?

Regards

[PuzZLeR]

Yes it has been a long time. HandBrake doesn't do Xvid any more - they dropped it two versions ago.

If you have an old build you can try that, but you're on your own now since I, and many others, wouldn't remember similar settings to what you're looking for and the HandBrake Forums wouldn't honor help requests for older versions as well.

You can stick with Xvid, but I'd suggest you stick with AutoGK or try another tool for it today.

EDIT: By the way, I understand about the slow speeds of H.264 (and x264) which annoyed me too for several years - but that's changed too in recent years with drastic improvements (depending on your system).

[A_51]

Thanks PuzZleR

What tool would be recomended that would allow for Chapters, soft subs, maybe alt audio tracks selection and video on Xvid and batch jobs? Would it be simple to use? The machine that I'm using gives me about 40 fps using Xvid compared to 9 fps when using h264. I'm putting my DVD collection into a NAS. The disks takes too much space.

[PuzZLeR]

Well, not sure how you do your encoding, and not sure if you have multiple cores, but if you use constant quality with x264, and multi-threading, you can seriously up that fps rate since you'll only be needing one pass if you've been using 2-pass bitrate encoding in the past.

Yeah, the "fit-and-burn-it-on-a-disc" mindset isn't as applicable any more either with large storage available today, but also because it requires 2 passes for better quality and constant quality is more center-stage today, and only requires one pass. This is especially true with x264, which always did have a good constant quality scheme.

As for tools, if you want to work with x264, you can retry HandBrake or one of many other tools available for it.

For Xvid, I've always used VirtualDub for this and DivX over the years. VirtualDubMod and MeGUI do batch jobs easily for Xvid, but as for subs, chapters and the like, this is something I don't use much of so hopefully someone else can give you a better answer.