converting movie to HD but low space format

[shahzadashraf30]

i use to download HD mvies of different formats like .avi .mp4 via torrents and usualy they consume 2 to 4.5gbs per movie. i wanna them convert to any format whick provide me low space consumption but do not effect quality of the video. i ve heard abt mkv format. can any1 help me with this and also recomend me converting tool/software to convert. thanx

[Baldrick]

You can try shrink with handbrake, open the source, convert to h264 in a mkv or mp4, under video tab can you change the output size. BUT you more you shrink the worse quality. But you can always try and see how it looks for you.

[shahzadashraf30]

thanx let me try it. i've tried ripbot264 but its damn slow

[shahzadashraf30]

handbrake is also taking 7+ hrs to complete one mvi converting

[dragonkeeper]

Using Ripbot264, Handbrake or any of the many tools out there to Convert your downloaded movies to mkv is a very CPU intensive project. If you PC is not a high end unit its will take many hours to do the conversion. I have a TVrip of the "Cowboy" way that i recently converted. I only average a measly 29 frames per second, i say measly because the frame rate of the video is 50 frames per second the conversion took almost 3 hours.

The conversion was done on a AMD Phenom x4 BE @ 2.93 Ghz and 8 Gb of ram.

[shahzadashraf30]

i havce dell optiplex gx620 acine with intel dual core 3.6GHZ with 2 gigs of ram. but ETA is very long

[_Al_]

Dude, free download, free encoder (excellent by the way), computer average (nothing wrong with that) and complaints that it is slow ...

[Atak_Snajpera]

thanx let me try it. i've tried ripbot264 but its damn slow

x264 is not slow. Just your CPU is ancient. You need more cores and more ghz. x264 itself is highly optimized!

i ve heard abt mkv format. can any1 help me with this and also recomend me converting tool/software to convert. thanx

MKV is just a BOX where you put video stream / audio stream / subtitles ...