How to reencode a scene Blu Ray to scene standard XviD .avi?

So for some reason, REWARD released S04E01-E20 of Chuck, but there are 24 episodes in the season. I’ve found the scene Blu Ray rips for the missing episodes, however I prefer similarity…so I was wondering if anyone can tell me how to properly reencode these releases to the same specs as the first 20 episodes that I’ve already downloaded.
Any help is appreciated.
Answer #1
autoGK, virtualdubmod, older versions of handbrake, SUPER. So many conversion programs to try and remember.
Answer #2
TheClassic replied: autoGK, virtualdubmod, older versions of handbrake, SUPER. So many conversion programs to try and remember.
Yeah I know there are multiple programs to do the conversion–I’m looking for settings that will yield the same specs as the other episodes that I already have.
Answer #3
Virtualdub with xVID codec (untouched/default settings) should get you standard 300/350 MB avi rips.
Answer #4
AutoGK and VirtualDub wouldn’t take the .mkv files, SUPER looked to have all the options I wanted, however I kept getting an error.
:-\
Answer #5
Megui is probably the software to use.
Answer #6
tawny_owl replied: Megui is probably the software to use.
It keeps freezing on “Preprocessing please wait”.
Any ideas?
Answer #7
I use AVIdemux for this type of recode
open the file
set video to “MPEG 4 ASP (xvid)”
hit settings and select “2 pass size” under encoding mode
then enter the size you want to try, (350mb minus the audio size – prob around 75mb)
(under filters you can select transform/resize to shrink the frame size to match the others – 640×360 maybe)
set audio to MP3
select bitrate under settings (128 constant bit rate should work)
leave format as “AVI”
convert one to see what you get
Answer #8
If you’re gonna make XVID anyway, why waste time and space downloading the Bluray versions? Just download the xvid versions.
EDIT: aha sorry didn’t read it to the end, if therare no xvid to download then of course.
Answer #9
prozac4312 replied: tawny_owl replied: Megui is probably the software to use.
It keeps freezing on "Preprocessing please wait".
Any ideas?
Are you using the “one-click” encoder option or are you doing it step by step?
Answer #10
You could use Freemake Video Converter..
Allows you to set the format and to limit the output size.
http://www.freemake.com/
BTW if you want to know all about what’s in a video file, use MediaInfo.
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
Or as ed.. mentioned, AviDemux is another good freeware.