Comments on: playing with x264 http://wonkabar.org/2009/10/26/playing-with-x264/ cornflakes, cartoons, dragons, linux, multimedia, psychology, teenagers Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:25:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 056 http://wonkabar.org/2009/10/26/playing-with-x264/#comment-915 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:10:13 +0000 http://wonkabar.org/?p=1035#comment-915 Handbrake…the SVN ver.

]]> By: lefty.crupps http://wonkabar.org/2009/10/26/playing-with-x264/#comment-914 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:45:25 +0000 http://wonkabar.org/?p=1035#comment-914 Your videos are listed as 59.94 FPS because thats roughly double the NTSC standard, 29.97; with this doubling comes higher-quality video. Check out info about Progressive and Interlace scanning methods.

For very good video encoding with an easy, text-based ‘wizard’ that walks you through some encoding options and runs on its own after that, check out xvidenc and h264enc (both are available in Debian’s repositories, not sure if in Free or non-Free though). Generally I will set it up to run over night or all day at work, since a backup of a 4.2GB DVD will take about 8 hours with the settings that I pick. Launch the app in a terminal with:
shell$ xvidenc -2p -p ehq
meaning, 2pass, -preset ‘extra high quality’. There are other options as well if you run ‘xvidenc –help’.

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