Hi, I have some large .AVI's of a show. I want to reduce the size w/o losing much quality. This will be stored on hard drive so I was wondering if XVID/DiVX is still the preferred codec or are newer codecs like MP4/H264 or whatever are better for what I'm trying to do?
The AVI files are 342mb each with a runtime of 24 minutes and 22 seconds.
It's 25fps and a real life show, not a cartoon (if that matters, i dunno).
Resolution is 640x480, audio is encoded with Mp3 at 128kbps (48000hz).
I opened the files in VirtualDub and viewed the File Information, and it says it has 1835kbps data rate for Video so I'm assuming that's the bitrate.
20 episodes:
342mb
24:22 minutes (real-life show, not cartoon)
25fps
640x480 res
1835kbps bitrate?
48000Hz 128kbps
Also, I need to mass convert them/run it in batch mode. I'd like to get the file sizes down to around 180-200mb. Tthe quality of these video files are already noisy/blocky...I've tried using filters in VirtualDub and it helps, but it makes the whole encoding process significantly slower (5fps encoding).
What encoder and codec would you suggest for reducing the size of these files and storing them on hard drive?
Also, could you please include the optimal settings I should use for the codec (for instance, Xvid, what should I set the quantitizer/bitrate or whatever to).
Thanks a lot guys.
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I'm afraid, halve the size, halve the quality. Seems like it's already some rather efficient codec as it is, so further shrinking will take its toll of quality.
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Originally Posted by mats.hogberg
Also, the quality of these videos aren't great to begin with. They look like vhs transfers, and they have some noise.
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Originally Posted by guns1inger
Edit:
Also, I have another show that was already encoded (not by me).
199mb
24:24 minutes
25fps (real life, not cartoon)
720x544 res
1007kbps bitrate?
MP3 128kbps (48000hz)
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If you really want the smallest file size, especially with noisy video, use an MPEG 4 part 10 codec like x.264.
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Originally Posted by chroniX
/Mats -
Originally Posted by mats.hogberg
Thanks. -
What I'm trying to get across is: The worse the source (noise, flicker & cetera) the higher bitrate you need. So much is wasted on keeping up with random pixels changing between frames, there's not enough left to cater for the real changes.
Also keep in mind that each reencoding takes some quality away, even if you go up in bitrate.
/Mats
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