Hi!
Ok, I have looked at responses from Andres, Martin etc and made the following adjustments to the script:
"The sound level is a little low": I added "-D 2.0", dynamic range compression that might help. Haven't listened myself :)
"It seems you can tell HandbrakeCLI to use CRF ": Yes, I moved to use that and have now a quality setting of 0.5.
Regarding aspects, I enabled anamorphic (not sure what it will do!): http://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/AnamorphicGuide
------------------ I have now uploaded two different new versions of esug44.mp4 (using the above changes) that are less than HALF the size of esug44.mp4 to:
Details: esug44-2.mp4 built using:
HandBrakeCLI -i $1.$2 -o $1.mp4 --preset="Normal" -p -m -I -q 0.5 -e x264 -x ref=2:bframes=2:me=umh -E faac -B 32 -R 22.05 --mixdown mono -D 2.0 -d fast --denoise medium
esug44-3.mp4 built using:
HandBrakeCLI -i $1.$2 -o $1.mp4 --preset="Normal" -p -m -I -q 0.5 -e x264 -x ref=5:mixed-refs:bframes=4:bime:weightb:b-rdo:me=umh:subme=9:filter=0,-1:trellis=2:threads=4 -E faac -B 32 -R 22.05 --mixdown mono -D 2.0 -d fast --denoise medium
The difference lies only in the options to x264 and this last version rips all options from this webpage:
http://filthypants.blogspot.com/2008/07/comparison-of-x264h264-advanced-opti...
Now... time to pick! esug44-2 or esug44-3? You may not even be able to tell the difference :)
When decided I have 48Gb to churn through!
regards, Göran