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hey guys, I know this is a much asked question but maybe some new light will be shed, my i7 rips through encoding, but I seem to lack the ability to produce good films/tv episodes. I am backing up my original dvd's, ripped them with anydvd, and I want to make them the same size as what you would get from BT, as they seem to be good quality, not starting a moral debate, these are dvd's I own and want to watch without having to change discs on my home server. for example, 350 MB use to make a great episode. but if i do that in handbrake its horrible... anyone know what settings are used for the best output at standard sizes? I would like movies to be anywhere from 1.5 to 2.2 gig too? :)

thanks in advance fo ranyone who can help, I am a bit of a encoding noob. also does anyone want to shed light on how h.264 is better than xvid, and mkv vs avi? what do they mean in relation to quality and file size...
 
I can tell you what I did and I am very happy:
I used DVDFab to rip the disks to their Audio/Video TS_folders, which Windows Media Center can read, and then just went from there. NOW, I use DVDfab because it lets you cut off the credits and the menus, and just rip the main portion. No compression, no loss.
I do have 2TB of storage...
 
x264 has better compression with close to the same quality as xvid.

mkv's are lossless I believe, so you would have dvd-quality since there would be no compression.

pretty much all stuff released by "the scene" uses xvid encoding.
 
Auto Gordian Knot. It's simple has automated tasks. You give the size and quality the rest is done by AGK.
 
j-sta said:
mkv's are lossless I believe, so you would have dvd-quality since there would be no compression.
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MKVs are containers, so while technically they're lossless, that doesn't mean that you can't put a reencoded video into the container (which would inherently not be lossless compared to the source, but would be lossless compared to the video stream by itself).

j-sta said:
pretty much all stuff released by "the scene" uses xvid encoding.
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Not true, but that isn't something that should be discussed. ;)

DarKSeeD said:
Auto Gordian Knot. It's simple has automated tasks. You give the size and quality the rest is done by AGK.
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Gordian Knot is superfluous now. Hasn't been updated in 4 years.
 
Snowknight26 said:
MKVs are containers, so while technically they're lossless, that doesn't mean that you can't put a reencoded video into the container (which would inherently not be lossless compared to the source, but would be lossless compared to the video stream by itself).


Not true, but that isn't something that should be discussed. ;)



Gordian Knot is superfluous now. Hasn't been updated in 4 years.
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But still is a good product and for what he needs still does the job. The guy just asked for a way to compress a dvd to a reasonable size without losing too much in quality. Recommend something else...
 
ok guys, after running a fair few tests, I am pretty happy with handbrake encoding my dvd's at 1400 MB, using h.264, and the mkv container, my only worry is that avi is a long time standard, but we are seeing alot of mkv's now, so maybe I am jsu tparanoid ove rnothing, anyone know how to ge tmy subtitiles? I appreciate alll the feedback :D.
 
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