Originally Posted by
SLPopp
Paul,
Thanks for the feedack regarding the bitrate on camcorders. Yes, I do have my camcorder set to record video at 1080i 60fps at 24mbps (highest bitrate possible on camcorder) because of the fact a person can not get picture quality out of a video that isn't there to begin with. I can always re-encode the video to whatever suits my needs.
The HD home videos were originally re-encoded for the purpose of dumping them onto a Blu-ray disc, these are the files I originally dumped into Mezzmo and I was having transcoding "too slow" issues with. I still have the original AVCHD files from the camcorder and did some testing with Sony Vegas Pro 10 and found that re-encoding the files to MP4 container with AVC video at 20mbps (Vegas won't work with a higher bitrate-it's available but it errors out) and AAC audio works very well with the older Sony BDP-S370 Blu-ray player. Mezzmo only seems to be remuxing the file. I'll have to double check this as the transcoding happens so fast because the video I am testing with is only 10 minutes long and the server is in the basement and the player is upstairs. I plan on re-rendering all my HD footage to this format.
I also did some testing with Blu-ray rips and I created an MKV rip at 1080p 11mbps video and 448kbps 48khz 16 bit 5.1 AC3 audio and Mezzmo did a good job of transcoding the video at an average 43fps with 100% CPU load. I am currently ripping the same movie at MKV 15mbs video (Highest bitrate available with DVDFab 8) and Audiocopy (film has DTS-HD audio).
I am doing all testing with the Sony BDP-S370 player set to the Sony BDP (NTSC) profile as it seems more mature than the BDP-S590. The updated profile for the Sony BDP-S590 (Sony BDP-HTC-SMP (2012 Models)) still seems buggy, the Sony Bravia KDL (2012) profile seems to work better with the files I have been trying.
I'll post back later with my findings.
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