Comments on: playing with x264 http://wonkabar.org/2009/10/26/playing-with-x264/ linux, databases, cartoons and cornflakes Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:46:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: 056 http://wonkabar.org/2009/10/26/playing-with-x264/comment-page-1/#comment-50324 056 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:10:13 +0000 http://wonkabar.org/?p=1035#comment-50324 Handbrake...the SVN ver. Handbrake...the SVN ver.

]]> By: lefty.crupps http://wonkabar.org/2009/10/26/playing-with-x264/comment-page-1/#comment-50323 lefty.crupps Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:45:25 +0000 http://wonkabar.org/?p=1035#comment-50323 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'. 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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