Best file format for videos.

Mattus · 29 Jul 2009 at 21:04

lopkinfop said:
ofcourse you adjust the size for the length, i.e. 60mb for a 20 min show etc

That's still about 250MB for a 90-minute movie, though, which is gonna look cack if your screen's bigger than about 17in.

Sash · 29 Jul 2009 at 21:05

Mattus said:
It does, yeah. If you use the 'high profile' preset, the quality will be much better but it'll also take much longer.

Cool cheers, shouldnt be a problem timescale wise tbh though

wannabedamned · 29 Jul 2009 at 21:17

Ignore me, It's down to people mislabelling stuff lol

PhillyDee · 30 Jul 2009 at 08:06

Mattus said:
That's still about 250MB for a 90-minute movie, though, which is gonna look cack if your screen's bigger than about 17in.

Pretty much. (For example) My Futurama Episodes are 412Mb in length. They are 22 minutes. Perfick.
I watch mine on my 37" HDTV through my PS3 (Twonky ***). I have no complaints about any movies.

EYEREX · 30 Jul 2009 at 08:26

lopkinfop · 30 Jul 2009 at 08:57

PhillyDee said:
Pretty much. (For example) My Futurama Episodes are 412Mb in length. They are 22 minutes. Perfick.
I watch mine on my 37" HDTV through my PS3 (Twonky ***). I have no complaints about any movies.

I did say it depends on what size screen you were using, i have a 17 inch one i used to use and the 120mb for a 40 min (i had 500mb for a 2hr film) and it was just as good as watching it from the DVD) but last year i got a 32 inch high def TV so now its about 1-1.5gb for a 40 min show from a bluray and about 4gb for a film

Cybergangster · 30 Jul 2009 at 09:05

I've got an old Xbox running XBMC on the TV and I also watch my vids on the laptop via a wireless connection. My preferred format for this set up is Xvid (.avi).

I've played around with other file formats and encoders but found Xvid suits my needs best. I only have a 22" TV so I don't notice much deterioration in the picture - but I doubt my vids would stand up to scrutanisation on a 42" hi-def set up...

For ripping my DVDs I've been using DVD Shrink and AutoGK. With this set up I can rip a number of DVDs to file and then queue them to convert with AutoGK overnight. AutoGK has a bunch of presets that work just fine too (I found WinAVI and Handbrake too fiddly to get a picture/file size that I was happy with).