How To Encode Movies To 350mb

This is a tutorial to encode the your movies so that you can reduce the size using h264 codec. Just follow the steps.

Very Important

1) Dont expect the output to be better than the source.

2) The better the source the better the output rip.

3) This is not for viewing on your big screen TV's.

4) This is for watching on your 15'', 17'' or 19'' computer moniters.

5) A 2 hr movie can be encoded to around 350-390 mb.





When should you do this

1) When you are running out of harddisk space.

2) When you are trying to make a large collection of movies. ( A dvd can hold 12 such movies)





What hardware plays this

1) PC (VLC player or Media Player Classic, I recommend VLC player)

2) PS3





What hardware does not play this

1) Ipod

2) PSP

3) Normal dvd players, DivX supported dvd players







Here are the screens of the encoded video



source : Heroes------350 mb, 1018 kbps bitrate, 624x352 resolution







output : Heroes------175 mb, 500 kbps bitrate, 624x352 resolution









Screens when stretched to full screen on my 17'' moniter



source : Heroes------350 mb, 1018 kbps bitrate, 624x352 resolution, screen resoultion : 1024x768







output : Heroes------175 mb, 500 kbps bitrate, 624x352 resolution, screen resoultion : 1024x768









Step 1

There are a lot of encoding softwares, but all of them are just user
interfaces. The quality of the rip depends on the codecs and the
settings you use. I have tried many of them and i recommend you all to
use Mediacoder since it is simple and easy to use and its free.



http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/dlfull.htm



downlaod and install.





Step 2

Add the movie and choose audio tab.





set everything as shown in the image

choose CT AAC+ on the right tab and set the bitrate to 64 kbps and mode as stereo

Copy enc_aacplus.dll and nscrt.dll from plugins folder in Winamp installation folder to codecs folder in MediaCoder folder





Step 3





choose video tab



set

mode : 2 pass

format : h264

container : mp4

backend : x264

bitrate : This is what determines the quality. Any thing between 400 to
500 will give a descent output. Click on summary tab to see the
expected file size. Make the change in bitrate accordingly.









Step 4





choose picture tab



resize : set it to original as shown in the image if your source is a
700mb or a 1.4gb movie. If the source a 720p or 1080p or any other high
resolution bring it down to about 576x320 (16:9). Make sure u keep the
ratio same while bringing down the resolution.



crop : crop the image if the source is out of crop, or else just disable it



framerate : set it to 23.976







Step 5





Click on summary tab to see the estimated file size. If it is too less
then increase the video bitrate, or else decrease it if the size is too
big.





Step 6





Choose the output folder and click on start.







Step 7





You are done



The better the source the better will be your rip. A 720p source gives
a better rip than a 700 mb source. A source with a bitrate of over 1000
kbps will give a good rip.