Settings Help - and - I find the preset slower to work quite well for quality vs disk space vs time spent encoding. Now if you use handbrake, it's all pretty easy: For the video compression part, go with H.264. For audio unless you have a good reason, go with AC-3 or MP3. Unless you have a strong need for subtitles, go with AVI.
yet.Īt the moment, AVI is still the most compatible container format, it's sad but it's true - some players will happily accept MP3 audio in an AVI, but will fall apart on MP4 files that contain it.
Mostly the same stuff is supported in AVI and MKV with the addition of H.265 aka HEVC being the new kid on the block that will eventually replace H.264 - as you might guess it's more stream efficient than H.264. The Audio will be AAC (MPEG-4 Part 3), MP3, MP2, CELP, HVXC, TwinVQ, TTSI, SAOL, or even old Apple Lossless Those Video streams will be H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10 (often confusingly called MPEG4), MPEG-4 Part 2 aka H.263 or Xvid, MPEG-2, or MPEG-1 (those are in best to worst order in terms of stream efficiency)
Inside those containers will be 1 or more Video streams and (likely) 1 or more Audio streams, plus possibly other stuff depending on the format. AVI specifically has been abused a LOT with different formats that don't work everywhere
MP4 and AVI are container formats, as is MKV - They all have "standards" and are allowed to contain certain formats in a certain way. Mininova closed down, and that was the end of the truly dedicated groups, IMHO. It was the kind of stuff video buffs like myself lived for. I'm trying to find the same titles by different scene groups to determine if that could be the cause.īack in the day, when I first discovered torrents, on Mininova, as an alternative to missing eps, there was a group called MM. It's the visual quality that I'm concerned with. Once in awhile, there will be a glitch, but not as a rule, and playback is smooth. The Mp4 video is showing around 800kbps, while the Xvid was closer to 1250.
Not a bad image, but not sharp, as in my TV rip. The picture looks as if it was shot through a portrait lens. Generally, the download info specifies HDTV. In the original form, my system has no problem playing them, and after converting to avi, double pass also, there is no difference. Pumkinut: Unfortunately, none of my 5 Divx players will handle the Mp4 encodes, so I use Pazera Mp4 to Avi converter to make them playable. And this is from an apparently respected scene group. I suspect someone hasn't tweaked anything. MeGUI is a front-end that supports Xvid, although all the development has gone into the x264 side for several years now. I use 2-pass encoding at a quality setting of 21, and usually do not need to play with settings too much.ĪutoGK is a good front end, but it has not been in development since early 2009. The front end settings are very simple, but you have the ability to dig in and edit and tweak them to your hearts content. Handbrake is free and uses the best encoding engin available, x264. Phones, game consoles, video cards, set-top boxes (Roku, WD TV, Apple TV, etc). The upside for h.264 is that every modern device has hardware decoding circuitry baked into the equipment. The problem with many torrents is that someone just drops a capture into their encoder without tweaking the settings. H.264 is a modern, more efficient codec that _ hands down_ gives better results than Xvid. Xvid is an open source reverse engineered hack of the Divx codec, which was a hack of Microsofts MPEG 4 codec.