OGER wrote:
What are the resulting videos like ? What are the differences from the
original ? e.g. motion blur, sound quality etc ?

Paul, given your one-liners, I think I can see that by writing a small
app I can fully automate conversion of multiple files.

I will take less time to write the app than the time to enter a
one-liner and all the time overhead to do each file.

So thanks, I will give it a try.

Strange that VLC is non-functional in this area what with its huge
following.

As it turns out, I found a thread after I posted that,
which said the default bitrate of the NVEnc doesn't
change as a function of resolution and other choices.
So the reason my output file was 1GB, was probably because
I didn't set the bitrate higher.

There is a parameter you can pass, to set the bitrate.
And I've certainly used that while playing around with
DVD conversions.

I normally expect such a conversion to be about half
the size. If you dial the knobs down too much (to the
1GB file I got), that's probably too much loss. As at least
some people, expect the output to look the same as the
input, when the file is half-sized.

I didn't have a problem viewing the 1GB file. No
macroblocks or visual artifacts of that sort. The first
thing I'm testing for, is whether there's both an audio
and a video track, and that I didn't screw that part up.

Paul