Compressing mpeg to h.264 for Jw player

[mrbuckenmeyer]

Hi all,

I've been using an encoding service to compress videos for streaming with the jw player, but now that I have a new HD camera and I am recording in high quality. The issue is that since my original recordings are high quality they take a long time to upload to the service, so I'm trying to see if I can find a software solution that would give similar results (low file size/good streaming quality) to the encoding service .

Browsing through here I found suggestions for using meGUI (or another) with x264 CLI, which I'm going to try out. I just want to get the best possible suggestions. Also I would be interested in paying software if its not too steep.

Thanks!

[Baldrick]

What is your source details? Resolution and bitrate. Identify using mediainfo.

Megui is good, you can start with the built in one click mode. Use a high quality profile and try different video bitrates/file size and see how it looks like.

You can also use handbrake, xmedia recode, xvid4psp to shrink your hd files. All are using x264.

[mrbuckenmeyer]

Megui didn't accept my source file but xmedia worked great! It compressed to the same file size as the bitsontherun service and similar quality, at least to my untrained eye!