iPimp - Issues with New Zealand recordings... (1 Viewer)

[cheezey]

Yes - you'd have to delve into Handbrake command line options and use the custom parameter facility in the transcode plugin.

 

[Edwood]

...and don't forget to be a team player, and post your command line when you get it all working sweetly

 

[TommySharp]

Well I've been using the following manual settings for a little while now...

-i "{0}" -t 1 -c 1 -o "{1}" -f mp4 -w 720 --loose-anamorphic --detelecine --decomb -e x264 -b 500 -r 29.97 -a 1 -E faac -6 auto -R 48 -B 160 -D 0.0 -x b-adapt=2:rc-lookahead=50 -v 1

File sizes are a lot smaller now which is great! An episode of Home and Away (for the GF!) is about 190mb now which is perfect for transferring to the phone for watching later. This is down from the original 3.2gb TS file.

Only issue is now I'm pretty sure that it's taking longer to transcode than with the standard settings. I've got a core 2 quad Q8400 and it's taking about an hour and a half to transcode said episode of home and away.

I'll switch it back to the standard iphone preset and see how long that takes to transcode.

UPDATE.... Looks like my custom settings were quicker???

With my custom settings....
Show = Home and Away 29/Jul
Length = 40 minutes
Avg Bitrate = 12000kbps
Frame Size = 1920x1080
Original Size = 3.15GB
Encode Bitrate = 500kbps
Encode Size = 720x416
Resulting Size = 190MB
Time to transcode = 1.50 hours

Standard iPhone settings
Show = Home and Away 30/Jul
Length = 40 minutes
Avg Bitrate = 12000kbps
Frame Size = 1920x1080
Original Size = 3.15GB
Encode Bitrate = 645kbps
Encode Size = 480x272
Resulting Size = 227MB
Time to transcode = 40 minutes

So looks like standard iPimp iPhone settings give me a slightly bigger file but in about half the time which is good I suppose..... However the files sizes are much smaller than they used to be with the same iPhone settings so maybe a HandBrake update has changed this?

 

[TommySharp]

Just looking at some of my resulting transcodes and some of them are still above 1000kbps which is way high for the iPhone I think.....

Will have to keep playing to see if I can get this constant so it is always 500kbps....