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Originally Posted by Gunboat Diplomat
So far, without exception, I've found that fansubs that are released in both AVI and h.264 formats make the h.264 version (much) larger than the AVI counterpart. Why is that?
I would have thought that they would use h.264's higher compression efficiency to make a smaller file size of similar quality but this doesn't appear to be the case and I don't understand why. Can someone explain this to me?
Thank you...
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Well it's up to the encoder. Not all releases go by that standard as you say.
/me points to Ryoumi's H264/XviD releases.
Personally this is how I work. If a series I'm working on is only getting an H264 release. I aim for compression and smaller filesize.
But if the series is getting dual release (XviD in AVI/MKV and H264 in MKV/MP4) I will always aim for compression and smaller filesize with the XviD release. And make the H264 release as big as I believe is needed for the best reasonable sized quality.