In reply to "Knotty Bitz" who wrote the following:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 07:56:50 GMT, RIB <rib@rack.com> wrote:
>
> > You are welcome.
> >
> > I've managed to get the file size down to about 650 megs for the AVIs But
> > strangely I can't go much smaller than that for H.264
> >
> > The files on the DVD9s are way too big for the quality of the clips which
> > means
> > it's very difficult to get a good size/quality ratio. I swear this is done
> > on
> > purpose.
> >
> > I'll post one of each when I have more time and then you can tell me if you
> > are
> > interested in the rest.
> >
> > RIB.
>
> My prediction of 2/3 smaller was based on doing the one episode, which
> happened to compress well. I was probably too optimistic. ;-)
>
> You know, it probably shouldn't be surprising when we consider that
> 50% or more consists of old archival footage - raw, unprocessed, noisy
> material, and lots of it taken from analog TV. In fact, I've seen
> docs get larger not smaller for this reason. I cranked the xvids
> through HB at CRF 23 and got an average of 534 MB per ep. If I'd gone
> for CRF 24, the average might have slipped under 500. And that was for
> resolution of 640x480. You're probably going for the max (PAL)
> resolution, closer vto 720x576. Therefore, if I had the original
> DVD-9s, I'd go for the better resolution, use a setting of CRF 24, and
> accept what resulted with the filesize.
>
> BTW I misspokie yesterday. I said that the original poster did the
> audio at 81Kbps. I must have had a brain fart. When I looked again it
> was actually 192K stereo.
>
> KB
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I did do a trial with a CRF of 24 and thought it looked pretty good although the
resulting file was about 800 megs. I'll play around with it a bit and post what
I think is the best quality over size. I'm sure you'll let me know if it's crap
:-)
RIB.
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