I recently setup 150 files of a TV series and that took a couple of hours using VideoReDo but that was without encoding. Just setting up the project for each file then I batch encoded them.

I’ve got about 740 mpg files that I ripped from a DVD TV series that I would like to encode into MP4 or maybe MKV.

Is there a fast way to do it? I’m not worried about the encoding time, it’s just setting the files up to be encoded that I want to shorten the length of time that it takes.

Can anyone recommend a way to do it?

Do a test first, make sure your settings/file size are good on 1 file before jumping in to do the 739 others. MPEG Streamclip has a Batch function that you can easily set up to automatically process a bunch of files.

This doesn’t answer your question, but I’m just curious – why do you want to re-encode the mpg files? That’s a pretty common/standard format and I can’t think of many video players that can’t play them. The one that comes to mind is if you want to watch them on an iPhone – then you’d have to encode them as mp4.

The last I knew the iphone played mpg files just fine…unless of course that horrible ios update fucked that up too….

He probably wants to re-encode them to a more efficient format make the files smaller without killing the quality…but thats just a guess

I’m an idiot, I have a program on my computer that will do what I want to do. I just forgot that it can do it.

JasonA – Thanks for the suggestion.

guitard – Yes I want to re-encode the files. I’ll be watching them on my PVR. I also want to back them up on disc, probably on a BD due to the number of files.

steecoe – Your guess is correct. The files are around the 1GB each. I’m leaving them at the original screen size with a bitrate of 3000. It reduces the file size to about 500MB each.

Any suggestions to get the file size down? The episodes are around 22 to 30 minutes each. I’ve seen episodes that are under 200MB but they look terrible to me.