Anime Quality Inquiry

[Buffalobiian]

So the MP4 screenshot is of a file that you converted yourself from the original Aone file?

If you just chucked it into some auto-encoder which had an "iPod Quality" preset, it may well have automatically reduced the resolution as part of the converstion. Once that happens, it'll naturally look shit full-screen on your PC. It's iPod Quality after all.

[NaRuTo001]

[QUOTE=Buffalobiian;501491]So the MP4 screenshot is of a file that you converted yourself from the original Aone file?

Well not quite as you can see they're both diffent episodes the mp4 is episode 139 but is indeed originally an ANBU Aone file IDK why I put the other screenshot of episode 101 up I don't know where the orignal Aone of 139 is on my laptop anyway so ok if it is't an ipod preset and just an MP4 conversion to roughly the same size shouldn't it just convert to the mp4 extension not mucking round with the quality at all? thanks for replying though haha.

[Buffalobiian]

[QUOTE=NaRuTo001;501493]

So the MP4 screenshot is of a file that you converted yourself from the original Aone file?

Well not quite as you can see they're both diffent episodes the mp4 is episode 139 but is indeed originally an ANBU Aone file IDK why I put the other screenshot of episode 101 up I don't know where the orignal Aone of 139 is on my laptop anyway so ok if it is't an ipod preset and just an MP4 conversion to roughly the same size shouldn't it just convert to the mp4 extension not mucking round with the quality at all? thanks for replying though haha.

Well.. a lot more goes in the background than just file size. If the program is defaulting to h264 for the mp4 conversion, a same-quality conversion should actually yield a smaller file size due to the better efficiency of the H264 encode. (I say "should", because some auto-encoders I've played with will actually blow it up bigger for some bizzare reason).

If it's just slapping the file (xvid by default for Aone back then I believe), the file size shouldn't be that different.

Back on topic, it really depends on the settings and how the program wishes to muck around with the video based on its presets.

Instead of adjusting file size (if that's what you're doing), try to change the quality setting somehow if you're transcoding.

[NaRuTo001]

[QUOTE=Buffalobiian;501495]

Well.. a lot more goes in the background than just file size. If the program is defaulting to h264 for the mp4 conversion, a same-quality conversion should actually yield a smaller file size due to the better efficiency of the H264 encode. (I say "should", because some auto-encoders I've played with will actually blow it up bigger for some bizzare reason).

If it's just slapping the file (xvid by default for Aone back then I believe), the file size shouldn't be that different.

Back on topic, it really depends on the settings and how the program wishes to muck around with the video based on its presets.

Instead of adjusting file size (if that's what you're doing), try to change the quality setting somehow if you're transcoding.

I kind of understand what your saying as I'm not to good with encoding and codecs and all that all I use is xilisoft hd video converter to convert my anime into mp4 anyway I may sound quite stingy here but I wish there was some easier solution as to downloading naruto in mp4 I know a few sites which have them available but the quality issue comes into again with the subtitles being unbearable to read.I don't really want to keep downloading anbu aone files and then having to convert them to mp4 it seems to me like a waste of bandwidth.ok so are you saying that I can download lets say one of the bad quality naruto episodes for example an 80mb naruto which I found an sort of up the quality by converting it to a higher file size but still the same format? again sorry if I'm on the wrong page here I'm not to good with tech talk lol.