Newbie Question, which encode to choose

[siulung]

Here is my questions, with the same quality which encode format takes up the smallest file size when the video quality is the same, since i found that i have more and more files stacking up and i would like to convert them to a format to the lowest file size .

2nd question is does the quality ( resolution, framerate and stuff) less effect animiations? since after i hae done some converting ( lower down the quality to save disk space) i hardly found any different after the converting but with the same setting in videos ( movies ) i will clearly see the difference

can someone suggest the resolution and other stats that is good for the situration that first piority is lowest file size, but still could be watch in a computer screen ( full screen) without all those boxy effect that will happened when the quality is turn low

thx

[jagabo]

h.264, or the open source version x.264, will get you the smallest files.

Animations usually require less bitrate because they tend to have large areas of solid colors that don't change from frame to frame. And often run at low frame rates.

Resolution is up to you. The smaller you make the frame the blurrier it will look when enlarged to full screen.

If you don't care about the exact file size use x.264 in single pass, constant quantizer mode. That is a constant quality setting. You pick the quality you want (lower quantizer = higher quality) and every frame will be encoded with that quality.