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Old 02-15-2008, 03:09 PM
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Best conversion format to use

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?
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Old 02-15-2008, 03:24 PM
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AVC/H.264 is currently the best quality at the smallest filesize.
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Old 02-16-2008, 06:59 PM
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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.
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Old 02-17-2008, 10:16 PM
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Brits/Europeans/Aussies try AppleTV Widescreen compression please

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 ?
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Old 02-20-2008, 12:29 PM
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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...
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