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... Fair enough. @ Smithcraft: except for the .flv file issue I mention. I just wanted to show that there are uses for the target file size that I haven’t seen anybody discuss yet. Don’t get my wrong, ...

And yet all the reasons for removing the target file size option have been covered in the big, and locked, target file size thread. In particular there is this post from one of the developers that explains the overall situation.

Also, there are links to bitrate calculators all over the place.

SC

Target file size is not recommended or supported.

The recommendation is to find a quality value that generally delivers about the size you want. Some movies will be larger, some movies will be smaller. For most people it's somewhere between 18 (higher quality) and 24 (lower quality).

... use, is the place where I can type the limit/target file size for the converted video. This is great for me to manage how ...

... suggest a couple of things. First, reduce the size from 1080 to 720. Second, make sure that there ... Maybe AAC at 96 to 80 would be good. Since the target file size was removed from Handbrake, you can't just use ...

Handbrake no longer offers a target file size. Nothing in the Handbrake set up is aimed at a target file size, ...

ndjamena wrote:Wow, target file size! Wouldn't it be nice if handbrake had THAT!

(Just kidding)

Yeah, then we could continue to encode like it's 1999.

Wow, target file size! Wouldn't it be nice if handbrake had THAT!

(Just kidding)

musicvid wrote:I wonder if this is really just a next-generation "700MB" question?

As I mentioned before, in one of the locked target file size threads, yes.

If we're lucky we'll skip past DVD9 and go right to BD25.

SC

Handbrake no longer offers a target file size. Nothing in the Handbrake set up is aimed at a target file size, ...

Three target file size requests in a week. If only the people making that request would search and see why it was removed...

SC

DumbeBlonde wrote:This trial and error is driving me nuts.

There is no trial and error, just basic mathematics.

In any case, target file size is not coming back, regardless of how many protesters there are.

... list of protestors against the removal of the target file size. :( My reason is my off-site file deposit service will not allow ...

If the target file size is more important than image quality, try this thread for links about bit rate calculators.

SC

... they were over 2hrs long. But now that "Target File Size" has been removed, I'm pretty much forced to continue using ...

... they were over 2hrs long. But now that "Target File Size" has been removed, I'm pretty much forced to continue using ...

You should look for the biggest 'Target file size' thread that has been locked. It will have links to bitrate calculators that will help you to get your files to 4.37 GB using the Average Bit Rate system.

SC

... been one guy in the history of HandBrake since target file size was dropped who actually needed it. He was looking to attach ...

... Lion and iOS5 and used the function to choose target size quite a lot, to reduce the size of the files, so they occupied less space and loaded faster. Then I updated ...

... Though many *many* of them are using target file size for all the wrong reasons and shouldn't be using it in the first ...

Target file size disappeared a while back, and is not coming back. In this thread there ...

... Vidcoder, the developer decided to keep the target file size option. It uses the same encoding engine as Handbrake. It just ...

Target File size was remove ages/versions ago and is NOT coming back.

... (AutoGK). Finally a program that gives me a target file size, xvid encoding and an AVI container to boot. Features that HandBrake ...

... (half the length) it'll come out at half the size. That's if you really care about being able to manage file size. Personally I equate worrying about file size ... with imperceptible quality loss from if you'd used target file size.