HD200 and H264 encoding of DVD's with Handbrake

[RedCoat999]

I have recently started using Handbrake for encoding of my DVD's into H264 files. There are a multitude of options for video and audio and was wondering if anyone could provide some insight as to the best format for playing on the HD200? m4v, mkv, mp4, aac, ac3... etc!!!
Thanks

[Taddeusz]

I use MKV with the following x264 options in Handbrake and it seems to work fine on my HD100:

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I encode with a Constant Quality of 52%. You may adjust that to suit your needs. I also use the original AC3 audio. I end up with movies that average around 500MB-1.5GB depending on the length of the movie and quality and number of channels of the audio.

I also use strict anamorphic encoding which retains the original resolution of the video without translating it to square pixels and possibly losing detail.