#Video Encoders

[yesloulou]

Charles goes surfing in Melbourne | AusGP 2024 🇦🇺🌊 via ariannaoioli on tiktok

[olessan]

Pike my beloved

[radicalcircuit]

I suddenly had the urge to make a Dark Sonic edit.

Can this guy be cool again? He genuinely has potential in character exploration for Sonic.

[39oa]

SJS@DAL Postgame: Jason Robertson (03.02.24)

[netscapenavigator-official]

I downloaded an entire 20-Season series via a torrent. The torrent came in around 160+ GB. After re-encoding everything as AV1 via Shutter Encoder, it's currently on path to being around 55 GB when it's complete.

This shit's crazy. I wish torrent makers would utilize modern codecs and file types before seeding them. It'd sure save a lot of bandwidth, data, and time downloading 7zips and AV1 media, rather than ZIP and H.264/5 media. And, like, given that 7zip is open-source and VLC supports AV1, and both are free and open-source, there's literally no excuse.

[captainswan618]

finally finished downloading the river song timeline edit. get ready to cry with me @darlsbardlife >:)

[kaiowut99]

GX Finalized-Subs!122 (and 123) (Preview): When Duel Zombies Attack (Recommended OST)

[fivepebble]

i think im sick of youtube i think i might just start uploading shit here first from now on

[yet-another-wlw-shipper]

Tumblr video format guide

a.k.a. How to make a video I downloaded from TikTok/Twitter not to look like crap here.

So, this is something I learned the hard way, and I decided to share it with you all. Especially videos from TikTok look awful here if you don't re-encode them.

There's this Tumblr help page about posting videos that says

Well, I downloaded Handbrake and these are the presets you'll see

You most definitely don't want to use General -> HQ 720p30 Surround, because it adds two audio tracks, and I'm not sure if it's even Tumblr compatible. Fast or Very Fast 720p30 should be ok to use.

If you're using other video editors/tools, the main point seems to be that you are using

H264 encoder with Main profile (or Baseline profile if you want to play safe) and level = 3.1

MP4 file/container

FPS, audio format and video resolution don't seem to matter so much but probably better to use recommended/most used values/formats, i.e.

FPS = 30

Audio format = AAC LC

Video resolution = 720p (but avoid upscaling). 720p is the best for videos downloaded from TikTok/Twitter, but if you're uploading your own videos with good picture quality and bitrates, 1080p should be fine also.

[enigmatiic]

so uh... what if I wrote Nanook huh

[megid0nt]

ugh. gonna probably have to replace my graphics card huh

[curetsun]

Wonderful Precure! OP: Wonderful Precure! evolution!! by Yoshitake Chihaya

[andmaybegayer]

Oh Echo Point Nova is good

[hua-fei-hua]

do you guys want to see. the absolute CRISPIEST encode of an anime from before the year 2015, let alone before the year 2000, i've ever seen in my life.

[canmom]

encoding this video for youtube which has a lot of dark values and subtle gradients which like. it's certainly proving educational, that's for sure.

youtube always reencodes. this cannot be avoided. so your best bet is to use an offensively high bitrate when you upload, to ensure that there are minimal encoding losses on your side of the fence. so far so good.

you try that. you're in macroblocking and banding hell. the video looks like utter garbage on youtube. grrr. you worked hard on this video! there has to be a workaround.

your video is in 1080p. you heard that if you upload a video in 1440p or 4k, youtube will enable its more efficient VP9 codec. your co-animator upscales the encode to test this. you make noises of consternation about encoding an encode, but it's a worthwhile experiment. the trick does enable vp9, but the 1080p still looks like shit, and even the 4k is macroblocking - the macroblocks just look smaller on a sub-4k screen.

you know about a thing called 10bit colour. this uses an extra two bits per channel, you can use it with hdr or sdr colour. most displays only take 8bit, but you can dither from the 10bit to get nicer gradients and stuff even on an 8bit display, which might be more efficient than trying to encode the dither patterns.

however, youtube only uses 10bit colour on hdr videos. you look up a guide on how to encode hdr from blender. it tells you to set up blender to use an industry standard set of colour profiles called ACES, then export a series of bt2020 16-bit tiffs, and then encode them with the proper hdr metadata using a program such as Hybrid. you aren't familiar with Hybrid so you try using an ffmpeg command you found on stack overflow instead. the result in your player is incredibly dark. turning on hdr on your monitor helps not at all, and on youtube it's butchered worse than ever. you must have done something wrong. you download Hybrid and try to encode to hdr exactly as the author of the guide did. it still looks like shit. you must have done something wrong. maybe it's a problem with the input.

you give up on ACES and bt.2020, and decide to just make the best rec.709 encode you can. you make some more 16-bit tifs using the familiar Filmic transfer function, and set Hybrid to encode them at 10bit - youtube will probably just truncate to 8 bits but at least it will look nice on your screen at home. and you set it to upscale to 4k - with lanczos, not bilinear, thank you very much - and also make a version with a debanding filter, just in case that helps.

it's now 6am. the encode is taking a while. (so much for fixing your sleep cycle.) will it work? who the fuck knows. maybe you've just found more ways to make the video look worse...

[netscapenavigator-official]

In my (still ongoing) adventure to re-encode all the videos on my Jellyfin server to AV1 in order to save space, I’d like to present you all with the biggest success I’ve had yet:

A 19.06GB folder has been condensed to 9.2GB. 10 whole gigabytes saved by just getting my computer toasty for a few days. Absolutely amazing.

And we still have over 100 GB to go.