[Help]: I don't understand how the selection "lowest duration/quality" works

[Alsonn]

I don't really understand the priority of each, in some cases I find that the program prefers fps over kbps.
For example :
file 1 :1920x1080 24fps 6000 kpbs
file 2 : 1920x1080 23,97fps 15000 kpbs
The selection will chose file 1 and I don't think that reflect the correct priority. It happenned with audio bit rate too.

The priority shouldn't be : Resolution > Video Bit rate > Size > Audio sample rate ? Or something like that ?

I may miss understand the preset and I don't know how to make my own expression :/

[0x90d]

The order is:

Duration
Resolution
FPS
Video Bitrate
Audio Bitrate

[Alsonn]

Shouldn't Video Bitrate be over FPS ? or is there a way to change it ? Like isn't it more logical to prefer a video at 24fps but high bitrate than 30 fps and low bitrate ?

[0x90d]

Some prefer FPS over bitrate, some prefer bitrate over FPS. Others prefer something else instead. It also depends on your examples. If we have one video with 6k bitrate but 12fps and another video with 5.9k bitrate but 60fps, would you want to keep the video with the higher bitrate then? It's impossible to find a good solution that makes everyone happy.

For this VDF has the custom selection feature. You can use this to set bitrate over FPS.

[nrk666]

Could this hierarchy be made into configurable settings? Nothing fancy just assign these criteria in the order the user prefers. So maybe I order them: Res, vbitrate, FPS, abitrate, duration and someone else could chose their own prefs.

Personally I find duration to be the least valuable on the content I scan but I agree with you, you can't please everyone so I understand why it is like it is. My prefs shouldn't be everyone's prefs which is why a configurable order would be a great feature.

[Alsonn]

Any update on this ? I would love to be able to choose my criterias or maybe get an explanation on how to build an expression for precise selection ?
An example I have 2 identically long videos, A is 1080x1920 with 23.97fps and B is 604x1080 with 25fps. But when I choose the lowest quality, the software wants to delete A wich is obviously the better one.