Bitrate Calculator

Does anyone know of a good accurate bitrate calculator. All I have tried gives a bigger file than it says it should be. X264 encodes
Thanks for any reccomendations
Answer #1
How about this, online tool.
Handles H.264
http://www.dr-lex.be/info-stuff/videocalc.html
I MUCH prefer standalone tools so I’m still looking.
Answer #2
What exactly are you using to encode?
Maybe you just have to switch programs
Answer #3
have you tried the megui calculator. if that works okay then you could get the standalone version based upon it
Answer #4
+1 for megui calculator.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MeGUI/Guides/Calculating_video_bitrate
http://sourceforge.net/projects/megui/

Answer #5
What I am using is http://www.cole2k.net/bitrate-calculator.html It is accurate when a file is under700mb. After that it is not the right file size.
http://www.dr-lex.be/info-stuff/videocalc.htmlLooks really complicated.
I am encoding many files of various times and filesizes to MP4 H264. So they play back no issue on what I play them on.
I use any video converter pro and that converts fine. But I need to find the bitrate of the file so I can enter it.
Answer #6
that calculator is rubbish because it does not take into account all the overheads which you cannot ignore and get close to the final video size. megui calculator has always got very close when i have used it
see this link for a portable version of the megui calculator
http://www.videohelp.com/software/BitrateCalc
Answer #7
that calculator is rubbish because it does not take into account all the overheads which you cannot ignore and get close to the final video size. megui calculator has always got very close when i have used it
see this link for a portable version of the megui calculator
http://www.videohelp.com/software/BitrateCalcWhere on that does it show the bitrate? I even went to the help link http://mewiki.project357.com/wiki/MeGUI/Tools/Bitrate_Calculatorit is blank
Answer #8
the top box on the right “video size” just make sure that the select box shows kbps rather than MB GB etc. that box only deals with the video rather than audio + video as with the lowest box “total size”. you can switch to MB/GB to check the video file size if you want. the total size box will show the total file size including any overheads such as audio and indexes etc. usually you will want it set to kbps
Answer #9
Using that calc, A 22.06 file that was set to 200mb. Gave a 226mb file
Answer #10
it’s obvious to me that the problem lies with the encoding software or your settings as neither me or most other people have such problems while encoding. decent encoding appz will encode to within 5MiB at worst, usually within 2-3 MiB even with 1+ GB encodes.
try some better encoding software to see if it gets any closer
Answer #11
it's obvious to me that the problem lies with the encoding software or your settings as neither me or most other people have such problems while encoding. decent encoding appz will encode to within 5MiB at worst, usually within 2-3 MiB even with 1+ GB encodes.
try some better encoding software to see if it gets any closerWell the reason why I use any video converter pro. Is because it does not take hours to encode one file. Does give the 720 like it is set to, unlike set it to 720 and get 800×400 on other software. Or other reccomended software use a bitrate of 700mb and get 890mb file. I have tried so many video encoders and either they take long, lower quality, huge filesize or the wrong resoution. Even when it is set to one set of settings it comes out as something else.
Answer #12
have you tried handbrake? it might be a better option if your video card supports hardware assistance it might provide some speed up as your cpu is probably spending time decoding h.264 video before it can re-encode it. if the decoding is done by your video card it would free up a little cpu time for encoding. i don’t use handbrake but i believe that it does provide hardware assisted decoding. see if it gets close size wise. i use megui and don’t use the one clicky appz.
Answer #13
Yea tried Handbrake. That was the one that I set to 720p and it came out as 800×400 and the file size was way larger and the quality was lower.
But that was a year ago will give it another try
Tried it. tried to do a 450 mb file and handbrake came out with 486mb. Using the Same bitrate in any video converter pro it came out as 449mb
Answer #14
use the built in bitrate calculator of megui
Answer #15
use the built in bitrate calculator of megui :)I have and it gives a bigger file