2009-07-29, 12:58 AM
Hey, thanks for the follow-up post! 
I'll check those out, but for now I wanted to post up what I've found that seems to work well enough for my needs.
It seems that if I reduce the size myself, to what YouTube would shrink it to anyway, the resulting quality is better. This also reduces a 350-400 MiB file down to about 5.5 MiB, obviously making uploading much more fun.
I'll check those out, but for now I wanted to post up what I've found that seems to work well enough for my needs.Code:
mencoder file1.avi -o file2.mp4 -vf scale=480:360 -ovc x264 -x264encopts threads=3:bitrate=1500:pass=1
mencoder file1.avi -o file2.mp4 -ovc x264 -x264encopts threads=3:bitrate=1500:pass=2It seems that if I reduce the size myself, to what YouTube would shrink it to anyway, the resulting quality is better. This also reduces a 350-400 MiB file down to about 5.5 MiB, obviously making uploading much more fun.