Advice for batch mpeg2-xvid convertion please

[felix]

Hi,
I have about 50 episodes of the same tv show that I captured with my Hauppauge WinTV-HVR board.
File size is around 2GB per 45 minute program. Here is part of the mediainfo output:
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Format : MPEG-PS
Length : 2 GiB

Video #0 : MPEG Video at 5 663 Kbps
Aspect : 720 x 576 (1.333) at 25.000 fps

Audio #0 : MPEG Audio at 224 Kbps
Infos : 2 channels, 32.0 KHz
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Maybe I did something wrong, but I tried AutoGK 2.5, set max width to 720, audio at 160kbs(cbr), file size to 2cd(1400MB), and the result showed a lot of pixelation.

Any suggestions on a ethod/program to batch convert these and get good looking xvid at around 1200-1400kbs?

thanks

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[guns1inger]

I used AutoGK to batch convert PAL digital broadcast streams, and don't have the problems you have, and get much smaller file sizes. I encode 720 wide (but 16:9 AR, so less height than yours) and use a quality encode at 75%. The file size will fluctuate somewhat depending on the content, but I do Top Gear episodes (50 mins each, lots of action, whip pans etc) in a round 1GB a file +/- 10%. When I switched last season to H264, the file size dropped to around 500 - 600 MB each, with better quality.

[felix]

I used AutoGK to batch convert PAL digital broadcast streams, and don't have the problems you have, and get much smaller file sizes. I encode 720 wide (but 16:9 AR, so less height than yours) and use a quality encode at 75%. The file size will fluctuate somewhat depending on the content, but I do Top Gear episodes (50 mins each, lots of action, whip pans etc) in a round 1GB a file +/- 10%. When I switched last season to H264, the file size dropped to around 500 - 600 MB each, with better quality.

1. I presume you also use autogk 2.5 or do you still use 2.48?

2. Are you using autogk to encode H264? If so, let me know where to find the recipe!

thanks

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[guns1inger]

Actually, I am still running 2.45 - it ain't broke (at least for me) so why fix it.

For H264 I use Xvid4PSP, which also batch encodes. H264 is slower than Xvid for encoding, but on even a basic quad-core is pretty good when encoding SD material. HD requires a lot more effort and time.