Apple TV - h264 MP4 AAC.
I recently purchased an Apple TV and am now taking the opportunity to convert all my videos to mp4, just so I can have a universal format across the board.
I have been using ffmpegX to convert them. For video I pick the mp4 codec (the H264 [.MP4] (mencoder) one). I set the video size to be the same as the source (and this also dictates which frame rate is chosen) - just click on best which normally uses something very close to the source frame rate. (There's probably not a lot of point in changing the frame rate and aspect ratios, since the information isn't there to begin with, so it's not going to look any better (ie: for most files are going from xvid to h264). I suppose that also depends on the aspect ratio and whatever TV you have, but whatever...). For the audio codec I use AAC (MOV/MP4/3GP) at 192kbit/s.
At the end of the day I want all my videos to be the same frame rate and aspect ratio, but in h264 video format and aac video format.
It's all working fine. The thing is, it's going to take about 2 months I reckon, to do all my videos on my mac; so I'd like to speed the process up a bit by using my Gentoo box.
Can someone give me a command I can use which will do all the above options? I've spent hours looking at threads citing ffmpeg, transcode, mediafork and handbrake as solutions for iPod and DVD conversion... but no one seems to have a good answer for high quality mp4 h264/aac encoding which can be used for the Apple TV (and will of course also look good on the computer).
Obviously, by the command above, I'm using mencoder to do this, and am getting good results, so lets stick with that shall we?
MacBook Pro 15.4" - Intel Core Duo 2.0 Mac OS X (10.4.9) 1GB RAM
I have been using ffmpegX to convert them. For video I pick the mp4 codec (the H264 [.MP4] (mencoder) one). I set the video size to be the same as the source (and this also dictates which frame rate is chosen) - just click on best which normally uses something very close to the source frame rate. (There's probably not a lot of point in changing the frame rate and aspect ratios, since the information isn't there to begin with, so it's not going to look any better (ie: for most files are going from xvid to h264). I suppose that also depends on the aspect ratio and whatever TV you have, but whatever...). For the audio codec I use AAC (MOV/MP4/3GP) at 192kbit/s.
At the end of the day I want all my videos to be the same frame rate and aspect ratio, but in h264 video format and aac video format.
It's all working fine. The thing is, it's going to take about 2 months I reckon, to do all my videos on my mac; so I'd like to speed the process up a bit by using my Gentoo box.
Can someone give me a command I can use which will do all the above options? I've spent hours looking at threads citing ffmpeg, transcode, mediafork and handbrake as solutions for iPod and DVD conversion... but no one seems to have a good answer for high quality mp4 h264/aac encoding which can be used for the Apple TV (and will of course also look good on the computer).
Obviously, by the command above, I'm using mencoder to do this, and am getting good results, so lets stick with that shall we?
MacBook Pro 15.4" - Intel Core Duo 2.0 Mac OS X (10.4.9) 1GB RAM
