On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 12:54:20 +0100 Dave Widgery <dave.widg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Firstly thanks for all your input, > > Several people have suggested handbrake, I did try this but gave up > when it wanted to take 7-8 hours to do the conversion, I know my > notebook is not particularly quick, but I thought that was a bit > excessive, hence the search for something else. I did what you have done very recently. Found some huge .ts files on my NAS, 720p MPEG2 video, and wanted to reign in the wasted space. I crushed them down by about 10x with h265, after a bit of experimenting with that video codec and h264. ffmpeg -i input.ts -c:v libx265 -x265-params pools=16 -c:a copy output.mkv All one line. The above will make the most of CPU cores, adjust the 16 if you have loads of CPU(s). The -c:a copy means the audio will be copied. On my i5 laptop the compression took about 18 hours, and I did one job on an old P4... that took about a week! With ffmpeg, it will default to h264 and I think AAC audio. No options, just an input and output, will give you possibly acceptable results. To h264 it will probably pretty damn quick - and h264 will use multiple CPUs without being told to. Nick _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
