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<blockquote data-quote="doveman" data-source="post: 663965" data-attributes="member: 67412">Thanks for the advice.I'm torn between AVI and H264 because, as you say, the former only uses 50% of my CPU so MP remains usable, whilst the latter uses as much of my CPU as it can, which makes MP rather unusable, but H264 does give noticeably better quality for the same file size. It would be nice if it were possible to specify how much of the CPU/how many cores H264 (and AVI for that matter, as it could go 75% and still leave MP usable) could use. I also have to bear in mind that people I know have DVD players that can only handle AVI, so if encode to H264 I'll be unable to share stuff with them.So I think I'll have to stick with AVI for now, maybe encoding certain things separately if I feel they need the better quality of H264 and my friends are unlikely to be interested in watching them.Now, regarding the settings for MCEBuddy/Mencoder's AVI profile, can you recommend what settings I can use to reduce the filesize whilst minimizing the impact on quality?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doveman, post: 663965, member: 67412"] Thanks for the advice. I'm torn between AVI and H264 because, as you say, the former only uses 50% of my CPU so MP remains usable, whilst the latter uses as much of my CPU as it can, which makes MP rather unusable, but H264 does give noticeably better quality for the same file size. It would be nice if it were possible to specify how much of the CPU/how many cores H264 (and AVI for that matter, as it could go 75% and still leave MP usable) could use. I also have to bear in mind that people I know have DVD players that can only handle AVI, so if encode to H264 I'll be unable to share stuff with them. So I think I'll have to stick with AVI for now, maybe encoding certain things separately if I feel they need the better quality of H264 and my friends are unlikely to be interested in watching them. Now, regarding the settings for MCEBuddy/Mencoder's AVI profile, can you recommend what settings I can use to reduce the filesize whilst minimizing the impact on quality? [/QUOTE]

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