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| dub&duber |
| Posted: Sep 9 2011, 11:13 PM |
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Good evening,
I would like to re-encode a 2 GB video so that it can fit on a CD. First I added the resize filter to lower its resolution. To compress its video track I used ffdshow. I chose H.264 as the encoder and "two passes - 1st pass" as the mode. After a few hours I got a "video.stats" file (4.7 MB) and a very large .avi (8 GB). Then I thought choosing "two passes - 2nd pass int" and setting the size to 716800 KB (700 MB * 1024) would give me a 700 MB video but instead I got an other 8 GB one, but not identical to the 1st pass one of course. I checked its resolution and it's OK so I wonder what's wrong in my process.
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| evropej |
| Posted: Sep 10 2011, 04:25 AM |
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I hate to do this all the time but use freemake video converter, just set the size you want and press go.
Its free and it works great for compressing files. |
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| -vdub- |
| Posted: Sep 10 2011, 07:23 AM |
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I also had mentioned a software previously now not since it went the way of payware. For you mentioning this software here and there and also went payware later would not be good for others reading the posts then.
An Idea to use virtualdub external encoders feature. Now have realized how many times you have mentioned this other software may decide to look further at the external encoder. Make some presets ready usable for when asked (help need to x.y.z how to). Then able direct using url to page on this forum that has presets there. Presets from you and others that had been uploaded to the forum, for all users to download and use now and future  |
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| evropej |
| Posted: Sep 12 2011, 03:39 AM |
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i mention freemake a lot and i sort of dont like it because it seems like advertising but its not and i am not related to them in any way. i just love the performance of the program and the simplicity. have a look at it and let me know what you think (its free). |
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| dub&duber |
| Posted: Sep 12 2011, 10:40 AM |
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| QUOTE (evropej @ Sep 10 2011, 04:25 AM) | I hate to do this all the time but use freemake video converter, just set the size you want and press go.
Its free and it works great for compressing files. |
Thanks for the advice but it's not free - like in liberty (open source), only freeware. Moreover I posted on this forum because I want to use VirtualDub. |
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| dub&duber |
| Posted: Sep 12 2011, 10:43 AM |
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| QUOTE (-vdub- @ Sep 10 2011, 07:23 AM) | | An Idea to use virtualdub external encoders feature. Now have realized how many times you have mentioned this other software may decide to look further at the external encoder. Make some presets ready usable for when asked (help need to x.y.z how to). Then able direct using url to page on this forum that has presets there. Presets from you and others that had been uploaded to the forum, for all users to download and use now and future |
Why not ! An other idea would be to write how-to articles to help newcomers like me. |
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| evropej |
| Posted: Sep 12 2011, 03:08 PM |
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Even liberty is not free, most of the time its paid with the blood of many men and women.
Anyway, I just threw that program out there as a interim solution which quite effective I might add.
I have gone down your path myself and I was eventually forced to use something else.
The pain of processing each file is just to great for me and to be honest, I dont have the time.
I have had some good results with x264vfw but then secondary issues with seeking and performance.
Anyway, hopefully someone can add something which you might find useful in troubleshooting your issue.
I have used two pass process before with no issues so I dont see anything wrong with what you wrote. |
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| -vdub- |
| Posted: Sep 12 2011, 05:25 PM |
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| QUOTE (dub&duber @ Sep 12 2011, 10:43 AM) | | QUOTE (-vdub- @ Sep 10 2011, 07:23 AM) | | An Idea to use virtualdub external encoders feature. Now have realized how many times you have mentioned this other software may decide to look further at the external encoder. Make some presets ready usable for when asked (help need to x.y.z how to). Then able direct using url to page on this forum that has presets there. Presets from you and others that had been uploaded to the forum, for all users to download and use now and future |
Why not ! An other idea would be to write how-to articles to help newcomers like me. |
I am still myself getting to grips with external encoders, used to ui for selecting command options. I don't use x264, hs264, H.264, AVC as normal. While has good quality it file sizes are to large. Last was working with xvid encraw custom builds. Other projects are taking time from me to look at them more right now, need bdxl storage asap.
Have you encoded using console commands or used softwares that have done the same. Maybe from those softwares can grab the command to use with external encoders will need to download samples from the forum and virtualdub macro commands for pipe in-out. A search for external encoders should locate them as haven't seen a needed sticky yet for external encoders. Maybe if one was there people would add their external encoder profiles for others to use. Or start afresh with external encoders. Then share your profile with the forum, maybe in doing so ask for a sticky external encoders thread with sub external encoders profiles thread to put them in.
Actually that maybe also what i need to do look at what other softwares commands are after set from ui xvid settings. Maybe i do that next when get back to looking at external encoders.
That is far as it goes with external encoders, since no dedicated sticky thread seems no one is sharing their profiles. Problem then with profiles if you have one is that you could share the best you have. While good for your video may not be for other peoples videos. Maybe with each profile submitted also the source video information (mediainfo - text) is also submitted as separate .txt upload in same post. Then others would understand more when using it to what adjustments would need to be changed to suit their video encoding. Then there is multiplexers and audio encoders the other profiles that can also be added. |
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