Okay, so I'm trying to free up some gibs on my drives, and it seems I can free about 50% of the HD's space if I convert all my anime to H.264 mini-mkv (from around 200mb to 40-70mb without any quality loss) I have only redownloaded series so far, and replaced the big ones with them, but not every animu has been converted this way. So, I'm asking here: Is there a simple H264 mini mkv encoder, or do I have to just look for pre-encoded files harder? Thank you all.
mkv is irrelevant, what you want is a h.264 encoder. the one I use is mainconcept, but its very expensive professional software. I believe theres an open source equivalent though.
Is it x264? Also; this sounds quite interesting. I've got a good 90GB or so worth of mkvs. I presume that it works with .avi files as well?
I think its x264 yes. mkv and avi are both container formats, they have absolutely no bearing on the content, which is determined by the codec used.
hell, it even works with the infamously low-quality RMVB. Just Got some inuyashas that are 640x480@50 mibs/episode and rmvb. It's just usually used with MKV. For example, it's easy to find entire popular series like one piece, naruto, the simpsons or family guy with each episode @ 40 MB as a high-quality MKV. Now, finding the same for osamu tezuka anime...(like astro boy 1963 or Black Jack)...that's a bit harder Also. I tried using a freeware h264 encoder I found that was trusted by norton (not fake). It took an hour to convert 20 mins, and the file was twice as big. It claimed to convert to a few formats but only converts to mp4. Yeah, still lookin.
I found a website, here, which has the encoder and GUIs which I tried out. It seems to work pretty well, using the StaxRip gui I converted a 300MB .mkv file to a 78.6MB H.264 encoded file in about 20 minutes using my laptop. I read that too, so I tried to convert a .avi file. The program above automatically converts .avi to .mkv so it seems to be okay. The converted videos seem to play well with no drop in quality, although I've only watched a small portion of each.
