Where to find presets to import? Decomb gone?

[exodous]

I got the svn2907 that was uploaded today and noticed that it doesn't have the presets I liked in 9.3, mainly the Animation preset. I was wondering if anyone knew where I could download presets to import, or if I could just export them from 9.3 and import them into svn2907. I use Ubuntu 9.10 so I need to use the latest svn or I would have stuck to 9.3.

Also, I can't find the Decomb setting anymore, is this taken out in the svn branch?

Thanx in advance,
Stan

[s55]

* High profile presets: Instead of a confusing series of content-targeted presets, there is now a single, constant quality, High Profile preset with automated filtering and all the H.264 bells and whistles.

There is no downloadable presets.
Presets are not portable between versions. Code changes too much between versions.

[exodous]

* High profile presets: Instead of a confusing series of content-targeted presets, there is now a single, constant quality, High Profile preset with automated filtering and all the H.264 bells and whistles.

There is no downloadable presets.
Presets are not portable between versions. Code changes too much between versions.

I realize that, but everything apple was still kept so why not animation? There is still an import option in the presets pulldown options menu, so I was wondering if there were anywhere that I could get presets that were already made. I didn't think that the old one's would work, but I can't try without installing ubuntu 9.04 somewhere to get them so I thought I'd ask before I went through the hassle so you saved me time.

Also, decomb is gone, or I can't find it. I know it says in the announcement that it is still present, just need some help locating it.

Thanx,
Stan

[Deleted User 11865]

Also, I can't find the Decomb setting anymore, is this taken out in the svn branch?

Of course not. It's just been moved elsewhere.

I don't know the LinGUI so I can't tell your where to look, but it should be grouped somewhere with other "Picture Settings". HandBrake doesn't have hundreds of menus and toolbar buttons, so it shouldn't be difficult to find.

[s55]

I realize that, but everything apple was still kept so why not animation?

There is simply no need for it anymore. Animation, Film, Television and CQR are all replaced by the "high profile" preset. Thats the preset you should use.

There are use cases for the various presets targeted mainly at apple devices, thus, separate presets for those cases.

There is still an import option in the presets pulldown options menu, so I was wondering if there were anywhere that I could get presets that were already made.

The idea is more for preset sharing. (e.g copy a preset between machines or sharing with someone) There is nowhere you can download or get additional presets.


Decomb should be in picture settings.

[exodous]

Decomb should be in picture settings.

Gosh, I have got to be blind, I checked there and swear it wasn't there before.

I realize that, but everything apple was still kept so why not animation?

There is simply no need for it anymore. Animation, Film, Television and CQR are all replaced by the "high profile" preset. Thats the preset you should use.

I re-encoded something I encoded with 0.9.3 with the Animation preset with High Profile seems to make a much larger file, roughly 2x as large. If it's just standard interlaced DVD quality animation do you think I should move the slider on 'Constant Quality' or change it to Bitrate and pick a value there?

[JohnAStebbins]

The resulting video was likely of much higher quality than what you are accustomed to getting. I think that if you repeat the experiment on a larger number of samples, you'll see that some encodes are larger as this one was and some will come much closer to the size you are accustomed to. This happens because the constant quality setting will use only as many bits as are needed (and no more) to achieve the desired quality. So it is much more sensitive to the characteristics of the source material (e.g. a noisy source is more difficult to compress). I would suggest testing several samples and reduce the quality setting to something that gives the balance of quality and file size that you find acceptable. Of coarse if quality is of only minor importance to you, then just choose a bitrate that gets the file size you want.