Video bitrate?

[Doat1]

Hello everyone, i was wondering if it would be too much trouble to also add the video and audio bitrates of the Top Gear episodes since I and maybe others convert the show to watch on their consoles. Since Top Gear is now in HD i watch it on plasma TV through my xbox 360 and since the files are .MKV i have to convert them to .WMV but i have to calculate the bitrate and to avoid a mistake it would be helpful to find out the bitrate from this site. Thank you and sorry if this is in the wrong section.

[Viper007Bond]

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[narf]

If you reencode it into wmv and exactly match the bitrate of the input... you still lose quality. As much is lost when you use 10kbps more or less.

[Rattenjäger]

Since Top Gear is now in HD i watch it on plasma TV through my xbox 360 and since the files are .MKV i have to convert them to .WMV...

I watch it with my PS3 and don´t need to convert anything and I think neither do you. http://www.smlabs.net/tsmuxer_en.html Use this Muxer to pack the Video and the Audio into a .ts file and it maybe works, it works well on my PS3.

[Doat1]

i tried watching TS files on my xbox and does not work only reads AVI or WMV. When i convert i do not lose that much quality, it is not noticeable to me at least. I have my program set to convert for maximum quality and works fine. Thank you viper i will check out that program.

[narf]

If the only problem is the mkv container then you should convert it to the avi container without reencoding it. Takes less than a minute, loses no quality whatsoever, neither noticeable nor non-noticeable (wee 5 Ns...).

[Rattenjäger]

i tried watching TS files on my xbox and does not work only reads AVI or WMV. When i convert i do not lose that much quality, it is not noticeable to me at least. I have my program set to convert for maximum quality and works fine. Thank you viper i will check out that program.

Wikipedia says, that the Xbox can play x264. AC3 should work. Seems like ts isn´t supported.

The Xbox 360 supports videos [...] H.264 and MPEG-4 media.

Try it with the avi container, like narf already mentioned.
http://www.alexander-noe.com/video/amg/

[Doat1]

Well the strange thing with .AVI files is that some of them work on the xbox. I had a video that was .AVI and it worked but when i tried to watch another i got an error code.

[narf]

That's because AVI is only a container. It can contain a whole lot of different codecs.