iPad video converter for windows

[TheSiege]

I want a program that will take typical 24 minute shows and convert them to high quality 100 or so megs ipad compatible files, any ideas?
I tried super and videora

super made files way too big and videora sucks, and doesn't support batch rendering

any ideas?

 

[keeleysam]

http://handbrake.fr/

Great for Mac and Windows.

 

[0roo0roo]

100mb? not for 720p.
bit starved at 100mb for below sd as well.

 

[BD2003]

Handbrake for the win.

I've used the high quality preset, but set the width for videos to 1024 to match the ipads width for HD videos. Using constant quality, an hour long video is about 1 gig at 60%, 500mb at 50%, and 250mb at 40%. 50 looks a hair less sharp than 60, but 40 is visibly compressed, although still quite watchable.

 

[Hacp]

100mb? High quality? Buahahahaha

 

[Emulex]

stick to scene standards - depending on movement (animation/slow change movies) can fit to a 700mb and look good 720x480p - or 1.3gb maybe a little nicer.

keep in mind more complex codecs require more power to operate

 

[BD2003]

stick to scene standards - depending on movement (animation/slow change movies) can fit to a 700mb and look good 720x480p - or 1.3gb maybe a little nicer.

keep in mind more complex codecs require more power to operate

I'm not so sure it'll require extra power...it's all gpu accelerated on the iPad. The battery will last longer playing video than surfing the web, 13 hours from a recent test ive heard.

I've got a rip of 300 that I've converted to 1024x430...somewhere between sd and hd....takes up about 750mb, but looks great, and never skips a frame. Also keep in mind the video is running on a 10 inch rather than a 50 inch screen, so you can get away with a bit more compression.

It still kind of annoys me to have to convert the videos to play on the iPad, but with handbrake and h264, the results are quite excellent, even for such a low bit rate.

 

[Emulex]

well are you doing single or multipass? the more passes the better.

Even with gpu support - the more complex the compression assuming it has more than 1 profile and bitrate - the more power will be burnt up and heat expelled.

generally speaking the commercial encoders can do x.264 better than the free ones. and usually at the cost of speed. you ever wonder why some scene releases are 5-pass using a very expensive Cinecraft encoder? Because they have a rep to keep up - the best - even if its a rip of a TV show that's public domain.