WINFF X265 Convert older AVI and MP4 to MKV H265
I've been idly thing of a way to convert a whole lot of older standard def video files to a more efficient format. With the advent of h264 and more recently x265, I wondered what options I had for a hassle free conversion tool.
I've been googling this randomly over the past few weeks, encountering lots of links, but nothing that appealed to me. Endless scripts & tools with weird dependency issues that I didn't want to entertain. Sadly, I even downloaded a few before deciding to solve the problem myself.
In a nutshell, I googled a ffmpeg command line with appeared to work with my test file. I ran it on a few files and appeared to snip two-thirds off the file size without much tweaking. Now, I'm sure the fussy ones among you could do it better, but here's what I settled on as my current solution.
As some of you know, I am partial to Winff as my weapon of choice. I have been using for years and have contributed code to the project to add features I wanted for myself (selfishly). I created a X265 preset from the command line and had a drag & drop solution to my problem.
The whole point of WinFF is to be open to new presets/file formats & conversions just by making new presets. I tested the preset by dropping 1.7gb of files on it. The converted files took quite a while (almost an hour, I think), but the results were worth it. 550mb after the conversion.
www.winff.org - This is my Swiss army knife.
If you want to give it a try, save the following into a text file called x265v1.wff and import it into WinFF.
-c:v libx265 -preset medium -x265-params crf=28 -c:a aac -strict experimental -b:a 128k
mkv
X265 Conversions
Please send any suggested improvements back via the comments ;)
I've been googling this randomly over the past few weeks, encountering lots of links, but nothing that appealed to me. Endless scripts & tools with weird dependency issues that I didn't want to entertain. Sadly, I even downloaded a few before deciding to solve the problem myself.
In a nutshell, I googled a ffmpeg command line with appeared to work with my test file. I ran it on a few files and appeared to snip two-thirds off the file size without much tweaking. Now, I'm sure the fussy ones among you could do it better, but here's what I settled on as my current solution.
As some of you know, I am partial to Winff as my weapon of choice. I have been using for years and have contributed code to the project to add features I wanted for myself (selfishly). I created a X265 preset from the command line and had a drag & drop solution to my problem.
The whole point of WinFF is to be open to new presets/file formats & conversions just by making new presets. I tested the preset by dropping 1.7gb of files on it. The converted files took quite a while (almost an hour, I think), but the results were worth it. 550mb after the conversion.
www.winff.org - This is my Swiss army knife.
If you want to give it a try, save the following into a text file called x265v1.wff and import it into WinFF.
Please send any suggested improvements back via the comments ;)
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