Best conversion format to use

[BBCritical]

I need to create space for recordings so I am going to move some recordings to my imported video folder. What is the best format to convert to that looks the best but has the smallest file size?

[dvd_maniac]

AVC/H.264 is currently the best quality at the smallest filesize.

[sandor]

if you are talking about Sage's built in profiles, i have gotten very good results with "AppleTV Widescreen" for the ATSC HD content i record. Like dvd_maniac suggests, it is an h.264 encoding, and that is pretty much the best encoding we have right now.

[rv73]

I just had some nasty results using the Apple TV Widescreen profile on my DVB-T HD content. (Australia Channel10HD)
Picture spasmodically went to normal... to super bright, ghosty colour with huge digital blocking... and back to normal for a bit.
Very strange.
Maybe it doesn't handle DVB recordings too well ?
Any Brits/Europeans/Aussies wanna try it please ?

[sandor]

Originally Posted by rv73

I just had some nasty results using the Apple TV Widescreen profile on my DVB-T HD content. (Australia Channel10HD)
Picture spasmodically went to normal... to super bright, ghosty colour with huge digital blocking... and back to normal for a bit.
Very strange.
Maybe it doesn't handle DVB recordings too well ?
Any Brits/Europeans/Aussies wanna try it please ?

interesting. ill be interested to hear from others about this.

did you try to .mp4 file in another video playback software? i notice that in Sage, the .mp4 AppleTV profiles take about 5-7 seconds of playback to look "correct" but in VLC or Quicktime or Windows Media Player, they look perfect from the start. I figure it is some inherent problem with FFMPEG and h.264...