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Old 2012-08-25, 06:53   Link #6
SeijiSensei
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Originally Posted by sneaker View Post
H.264 encoding with x264 is currently the best you can do. You don't switch to a "more lossy codec" - you just tell x264 to use less bitrate/lower quality.

Any GUI will do (RipBot, HandBrake, MeGUI etc.).
So if you had a 500 MB file that you wanted to reduce to 200 MB, would you suggest reducing the bitrate and keeping the size of the frames constant, or would you scale down the size of the frames and try to maintain bitrate?
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