As I understand it, FFmpeg doesn’t support these formats directly. The only currently solution would be to do what you’re currently doing, convert to an interim format. Since EncodeHD is scriptable though, you should be able to set up a workflow in your conversion process to start EncodeHD and automatically encode once WTVConvertor is finished.

Cheers, Dan

I mailed you about this a few days ago. Can you let me know if you didn’t get it?

Thanks, Dan

Great app
Any chance of Microsoft *.dvr-ms and *.wtv file support
I do a lot of recordings in these formats then have to convert/remove the *.dvr-ms/*.wtv wrapper to get a file ready for encodeHD

Keep up the good work

ern

The resulting DVD playback results in a resolution of 853×362 (720×362 expanded a bit), but when I do the encode with EncodeHD and the final output is 408×272. Now I understand the concept of the 272 there, but technically since the Zune HD is capable of 480×272, the actual resulting “optimal” resolution should always be 480 pixels wide, with the resulting adjustment producing a final encode that *should be* 480×208.

I’m guessing it could be just a bug, a transposed digit in the compile, I don’t know. But with the Zune HD and that 480 pixels wide, the content *should* always be encoded to match the width, and the cropping for the height should take care of itself.

I did a test encode with HandBrake on the same file and forced the resolution to 480 pixels wide and the result was, exactly as expected, 480×208 in the end.

I’m also a bit concerned about the actual file size in terms of bytes when the result is finished. I’m not bashing EncodeHD here, please don’t take my comments in that light. I’m hoping to make it better, and with you now using the very popular ffmpeg encoder, this stuff should be easy to do. If the intent of using EncodeHD to provide excellent quality (not just passable results) for encodes, can you “fix” the Zune HD preset so it’s:

- 480 pixels wide output
- increase the audio bitrate to maybe 160 Kbps – I’m not sure what it is now but it’s lower than I expected and the sound quality is noticeably inferior to what the x264 encoder is capable of in HandBrake

I can provide samples of the encodes, done with EncodeHD, and HandBrake using both x264 and ffmpeg encoders.

Last thing: once we get our hands on Zune HD’s, perhaps it would be possible to add a preset for doing actual 720p encodes using EncodeHD as well, as that’s the biggest new thing about the Zune HD powered by that Tegra… ;)

Thanks again for your efforts, and I will continue to recommend your apps for that ease of use and simplicity. I hope I didn’t come across with any “GIMME GIMME GIMME” attitude, I’m just hoping to make EncodeHD just that much better, at least for the Zune HD.

Have fun, always…