First off, thanks for all your hard work. I love MCEBuddy and recommend it all the time.
I am wondering how to get a higher quality mp4 encoding. For instance I have a 30 minute HD recording of a sitcom that is around 3 GB. When its processed from MCEBuddy it comes out around 280mb. The quality is obviously blocky when played on a HDTV (great for iPad and other uses though). I'm using the MP4 High Quality preset and when I look at the profile in the confg file I really don't understand all the parameters. The bitrate looks high enough at 1800 but everything else looks like a foreign language.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here is the profile, I haven't changed a thing but thought I'd include it incase something is wrong:
[MP4 High Quality] Description=High profile, high quality 2 pass MP4 (H.264/AAC) conversion. Takes the most time but produces the best results. 2pass=true order=mencoder,ffmpeg,handbrake mencoder-general=-ss 3 -vf pullup,softskip,yadif=0:-1,hqdn3d,harddup mencoder-video=-ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate=1800:me=hex:trellis=2:subq=8:partitions=all:8x8dct:me=hex:ref=8:rc_lookahead=50:keyint=25:keyint_min=20:bframes=3:weight_b:level_idc=41:b_pyramid=normal:direct_pred=auto:mixed_refs:deblock=-1,-1:nofast_pskip:nodct_decimate:threads=auto mencoder-audio=-oac faac -faacopts br=192:mpeg=4:tns:object=2 mencoder-audioac3=-oac faac -faacopts br=256:mpeg=4:tns:object=2 mencoder-ext=.avi mencoder-remuxto=.mp4 mencoder-audiodelay=skip ffmpeg-general=-async 1 -threads 0 ffmpeg-video=-ss 3 -vf yadif=0:-1,hqdn3d -vcodec libx264 -b 2000k -flags +loop -cmp +chroma -deblock -1:-1 -bt 256k -refs 8 -bf 3 -b_strategy 2 -coder 1 -me_method hex -me_range 16 -subq 8 -partitions +parti4x4+parti8x8+partp8x8+partb8x8 -weightb 1 -mixed-refs 1 -8x8dct 1 -g 25 -keyint_min 20 -level 41 -trellis 2 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 ffmpeg-audio=-acodec libvo_aacenc -ab 192k ffmpeg-audioac3=-acodec libvo_aacenc -ab 192k ffmpeg-ext=.mp4 ffmpeg-audiodelay=skip handbrake-general=--decomb --denoise="weak" --loose-anamorphic --verbose=2 -2 -f mp4 -4 handbrake-video=-e x264 -b 2000 -x cabac=0:ref=2:bframes=0:weightp=0:8x8dct=0:trellis=0:subq=6:me=hex handbrake-audio=-E faac -6 auto -R auto -B 160 -D 0 handbrake-audioac3=-E faac -6 auto -R auto -B 256 -D 0 handbrake-ext=.mp4 handbrake-audiodelay=skip CutMP4Alternate=false