Still awaiting large file upload permission

[Squancho]

It's been over two weeks without acceptance or denial of upload permission. I have a 106mb file waiting (AMV Salad 2). Can someone please take care of this? Thanks...

[Squancho]

t 2010-03-22 07:38:27, Deuce Loosely wrote: It's not working. Shortly after the upload reaches the 100mb quota, it resets to zero and starts over. Why was "large upload" permission rejected?

# At 2010-03-22 07:43:09, Deuce Loosely wrote: rror: Could not write to transfer socket: ECONNABORTED - Connection aborted
Response: 552-Transfer aborted. Disk quota exceeded
Response: 552-STOR: notice: quota reached: used 100.00 of 100.00 upload Mb
Response: 552 STOR: notice: quota reached: 'AMV Salad 2-b.avi' removed
Status: Starting upload of C:\Documents and Settings\Richard Bradford\Desktop\videos\AMV Salad 2-b.avi
Status: Retrieving directory listing...
Command: PASV
Response: 227 Entering Passive Mode (69,26,178,19,232,8).
Command: LIST
Response: 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
Response: 226 Transfer complete
Command: PASV
Response: 227 Entering Passive Mode (69,26,178,19,204,173).
Command: STOR AMV Salad 2-b.avi
Response: 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for AMV Salad 2-b.avi
Response: 421 No transfer timeout (600 seconds): closing control connection
Error: Disconnected from server: ECONNABORTED - Connection aborted

[mirkosp]

106 MB avi... why not just making an mp4? Could have better quality in about half the size...

[Squancho]

106 MB avi... why not just making an mp4? Could have better quality in about half the size...

It's a 22-minute video. I don't think I can compress this any more without compromising the quality.

[mirkosp]

106 MB avi... why not just making an mp4? Could have better quality in about half the size...

It's a 22-minute video. I don't think I can compress this any more without compromising the quality.

We're talking SD, aren't we? I'm pretty sure you can at the very least try... just get a very recent build of x264 and go for

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--preset veryslow --tune animation --crf 21

and you will likely cut down on size. Also, if it's 720x480 4:3, just resize to 640x480. OTOH, if it's 848x480 1.0, resize to 720x480 and flag. That'll cut down on the size too. If it's 29.97 blame yourself and decimate to 23.976, which will cut down on the size since you have less frames and will make the thing actually look smoother since you won't have duplicate frames in the way that make the motion jerky. Use a lower bitrate on the audio, for example if you're doing 192kbps mp3, 128kbps aac will be just as good if not better.

[Squancho]

I compressed a lossless of 324mb into a DivX (1 Logical CPU) AVI of about 107mb, 720x480, 29.97fps. I downloaded the x264 but can't seem to find the option to install. If it's self-installing, it's not showing up on the list of codecs when I go to recompress. I'm sure I may be doing something wrong or missing a step somewhere. I "ran" and "opened" x264 several times but nothing happened; no change.

I can attempt to re-render the video as lossless using the adjustments you set and compress with DivX as before and maybe that will give me the wiggle room I need?

[Squancho]

I compressed a DivX of 324mb into a DivX (1 Logical CPU) AVI of about 107mb, 720x480, 29.97fps. I downloaded the x264 but can't seem to find the option to install. If it's self-installing, it's not showing up on the list of codecs when I go to recompress. I'm sure I may be doing something wrong or missing a step somewhere. I "ran" and "opened" x264 several times but nothing happened; no change.

I can attempt to re-render the video as before using the adjustments you set and compress with DivX as before and maybe that will give me the wiggle room I need?

Fixed.

[mirkosp]

It's not installing, it is a command line interface program. It's actually less scary than it might sound at first. Just place it in system32 (or syswow64 if you're on a 64bit OS) and then create a bat file in the folder of your video to be compressed with the following line:

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x264.exe --preset veryslow --tune animation --crf 21 --output "amvsalad.264" "amvsalad.avi"

Once you do that, save and run the bat, and then mux the output with your audio. You can do that with other cli tools, or just by using something like MKVMergeGUI.
If filesize is still large, keep increasing the crf value and run again. Decimal values work too.

[Nya-chan Production]

You run the x264 using ZarxGUI or command line (.bat file with mirko's stuff and some other (like location of said exe) in it).

Or you could get a large file permission, since it's 7MB.

[mirkosp]

Or you could get a large file permission, since it's 7MB.

Admins rejected it for I don't know which reason, so I don't think he has much of a choice. Zarxgui is certainly an easy option, but atm it's using a revision rather old... in fact, it's using like r1373 or something. We're on r1510 with quite a few improvements worthy of update. Just changing the version of x264 used by zarxgui might not work... I'm not sure. Actually, for example, the AQ mode 2 is now a different thing altogether from what I understand.