Endless Paradigm

Got 56gb of power rangers low tv rips. I want to lower the file size but need a nice fast batch script because doing it is slow and finicky getting right settings.

Average file info for all episodes

Code:

			General
Complete name                  : C:\Users\Sam\Desktop\MMPR - s01e01 - Day of the Dumpster.avi
Format                         : AVI
Format/Info                    : Audio Video Interleave
File size                      : 175 MiB
Duration                       : 20mn 46s
Overall bit rate mode          : Variable
Overall bit rate               : 1 181 Kbps
Writing application            : VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2178/release)
Writing library                : VirtualDubMod build 2178/release

Video
ID                             : 0
Format                         : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile                 : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP          : 1
Format settings, QPel          : No
Format settings, GMC           : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix        : Custom
Codec ID                       : XVID
Codec ID/Hint                  : XviD
Duration                       : 20mn 46s
Bit rate                       : 1 054 Kbps
Width                          : 640 pixels
Height                         : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio           : 4:3
Frame rate                     : 25.000 fps
Color space                    : YUV
Chroma subsampling             : 4:2:0
Bit depth                      : 8 bits
Scan type                      : Progressive
Compression mode               : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)             : 0.137
Stream size                    : 157 MiB (89%)
Writing library                : XviD 1.1.2 (UTC 2006-11-01)

Audio
ID                             : 1
Format                         : MPEG Audio
Format version                 : Version 1
Format profile                 : Layer 3
Mode                           : Joint stereo
Mode extension                 : MS Stereo
Codec ID                       : 55
Codec ID/Hint                  : MP3
Duration                       : 20mn 46s
Bit rate mode                  : Variable
Bit rate                       : 114 Kbps
Nominal bit rate               : 128 Kbps
Channel(s)                     : 2 channels
Sampling rate                  : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode               : Lossy
Stream size                    : 17.0 MiB (10%)
Alignment                      : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration           : 24 ms (0.60 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration   : 510 ms
Writing library                : LAME3.97 
Encoding settings              : -m j -V 4 -q 2 -lowpass 17 --abr 128

Just do a folder encode with Handbrake?

trying it did a quantizer 22 and the result was a file 30mb bigger than source

Increase the quantizer till you start getting sizes you want, then you can decide if it's worth it based on the end product quality.

H.265

It's 175MB an episode, and it's real footage (not anime), with action and explosions and shit, I think the size is pretty modest already.

H.264 is more efficient than Xvid so you can probably save like 50MB or something without really effecting the quality, but are you going to spend like forever (have to use slow setting if you want to push the quality/size ratio) encoding 55GB worth of 175MB episodes just to save some space?

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