I was just listening to the first part of the podcast where you talked about the Popcorn hour boxes. I took a look at the specs and see that they top out at L4.1 HP for H.264. I've been encoding for a while now using L5.0 HP but with only a 12Mbit rate, which is well within the bitrate spec for L4.1HP, but I've tacked in some additional processing directives that bump it up to 5.0 which result in identical-to-source compression (for my eyes) with a sizable space savings.
Does anyone have any idea if these boxes -can- handle 5.0 and just can't handle the ridiculous 150 or 165mbit top end of the profile?
Realized my post was far too vague...went to their forums and posted some details and uploaded some samples, so disregard the question. If anyone cares, I'll report back.
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I was just listening to the first part of the podcast where you talked about the Popcorn hour boxes. I took a look at the specs and see that they top out at L4.1 HP for H.264. I've been encoding for a while now using L5.0 HP but with only a 12Mbit rate, which is well within the bitrate spec for L4.1HP, but I've tacked in some additional processing directives that bump it up to 5.0 which result in identical-to-source compression (for my eyes) with a sizable space savings.
Does anyone have any idea if these boxes -can- handle 5.0 and just can't handle the ridiculous 150 or 165mbit top end of the profile?
Realized my post was far too vague...went to their forums and posted some details and uploaded some samples, so disregard the question. If anyone cares, I'll report back.