HandBrake

Flo, I am, and can only represent myself as a regular consumer. ..has been around for over a year. There has been plenty of time for "trial and error". Even "the scene" has moved on. Not everyone is part of 'the scene' and has time, in under a year, to experiment and learn the &q...

Ps: I hope the admins re-read this whole post and recognize my struggle to help while being put down. And if there were any Handbrake representatives involved, they talk to those people because it shined a horrible and unprofessional image on their product. I was honestly trying to help as a consume...

Of course you could try Vidcoder, which is Handbrake with a different user interface. Well, mostly. However, Vidcoder also seems to have a problem with target size. The other thing to understand, is that when the Handbrake developers decide on something, that's it. It's not open to discussion. Avi ...

The irony is that, in the time you spent arguing for your beloved target size option, you could have encoded several DVDs at constant quality and seen the results for yourself. Hahah agreed. Im not doing this for me tho, I'm doing it for the rest of the Handbrake community that don't want to do tri...

hahah once again I understand I can use that. Id just rather not "get the feel" and spend hours doing that when I could get a guestimate and loose a little. Most people agree with me. Didn't come here to complain about my laziness and spend my time doing that, just trying to inform the de...

What I've been saying from the beginning is that i am/need to be SIZE oriented because of limited resources. In which case you should use cq encoding as it will save you space in the long run. hahah once again I understand I can use that. I know my messages contradict. Id just rather not "get ...

When I check 'constant quality' and then drag the bar for quality, as far as I know, I have no way of knowing what the size/quality of that video will be without getting "a feel for it". So that leaves me with doing several conversions just to get to see what size that file is. I know it ...

Tamuuli, you seem to use Target File Size a way a lot of other people do: as a way to ensure your files don't exceed a certain size. But what you and everyone else don't seem to grasp is that while you will never end up with a movie that's goes over the target size, you'll never end up with one tha...

). Its not about laziness, just convenience for those in a hurry/don't want to calculate things for every conversion. But it seems rather than just try using the new settings and see if they work you are going to downgrade to an obsolete version. Sounds pretty lazy to me. Maybe I am just being conf...

I'm gonna reiterate what other people have been saying, but only because it's important: Tamuuli, you seem to use Target File Size a way a lot of other people do: as a way to ensure your files don't exceed a certain size. But what you and everyone else don't seem to grasp is that while you will nev...

I think I'm still missing something. Are you saying that forcing a size most likely wastes space Correct. By letting the encoder chose the bitrate you will probably save space and get better quality (the encoder is smarter than you and I). Ahh.. Yea that makes sense. I always kind of figured that, ...

How did he just teach me to save space? By telling you to use constant quality encoding rather than forcing your encodes to 2gb in size. I think I'm still missing something. Are you saying that forcing a size most likely wastes space (because of something with conversion) or that forcing every file...

rollin_eng wrote:

tamuuli wrote: Yeah Im confused about that.. I do my video conversions individually so of course I wouldn't convert a .9gb file to 2gbs? I only down convert. Am I missing something?

I'm not sure what the question is, can you clarify?

How did he just teach me to save space?

Taking a sample of 110 videos in my collection, at an average length of 1hr 40 minutes (All SD content): Total: 163.75GB (Max: 2.9GB, Min 0.9GB) Average: 1.48GB So, if you'd used 2GB per encode, you'd have wasted 57GB Listen to yourself: size is all that matters for me for storing a video on an hdd...

..seriously can somebody please just re enable this option?? I understand that its not completely spot on but this is something I used every single time to estimate the video size (size is all that matters for me for storing a video on an hdd, not quality). And I don't wanna have to use any secondar...