Do you find the compression of DVD shrink effects the quality to a great level?
Or do you just not compress at all?
Is it recommended that you don't use VOB files? LOTR 2 disc takes 10.5gb in VOB format!
Is it possible to go from DVD to h264/x264?
This is all confusing. I just want one file at DVD quality with the AC3/DTS sountrack within a small file.
I encoded all my Extended editions of LTOR last night.
On x.264 high quality with both the DTS and AC3 soundtracks, all chapters and 1 set of subtitles:
Fellowship Disc 1 = 1.7gig
Fellowship Disc 2 = 2.04 gig
Two Towers disc 1 = 2.08 gig
Two Towers disc 2 = 2.47 gig
Return of the king disc 1 = 2.3 gig
Return of the king disc 2 = 2.58 gig
Total disk space used for all 3 extended editions: 13.5gig.
Quality is great
I encoded all my Extended editions of LTOR last night.
On x.264 high quality with both the DTS and AC3 soundtracks, all chapters and 1 set of subtitles:
Fellowship Disc 1 = 1.7gig
Fellowship Disc 2 = 2.04 gig
Two Towers disc 1 = 2.08 gig
Two Towers disc 2 = 2.47 gig
Return of the king disc 1 = 2.3 gig
Return of the king disc 2 = 2.58 gig
Total disk space used for all 3 extended editions: 13.5gig.
Quality is great
Does that give you one video file per disc or do the chapters get included?
I used AnyDVDHD to rip the full discs to my hard drive.
used handbrake on High quality preset to encode.
Just encoding 2 DVDs with handrake - will try them tomorrow compared to the original versions and take some screenies for comparison
I'm also trying a Blu-Ray, but unfortunately it doesn't do lossless passthrough
Tho the C-200 doesn't do HD audio from single file rips (yet)
The dvd drive in my laptop reads a 8x speed. Can I use external desktop drive running at 16x speed without any problems?
Rom, how do you change the aspect ratio? Default is set @ 1.78:1 which is squeezing my rips...
Thanks for this I've just set 20 files to re-encode overnight. If the quality is good then I'll be a happy man - just worked out that I'll free up about 750GB from doing all of my DVDs. Which is good because I currently have 800GB left out of 10.7TB
The big test for me will be dark scenes on discs, I'm hoping I won't see any macro blocking - if I can then I'll be sticking to my .ISOs! Fingers crossed....