Bobcat_816
12 Dec 2006, 12:38 PM
Hi, all. I am wanting to rip my DVD collection to my hard drive. The only problem is I have over 100 movies plus TV shows. I would need over a terabyte hard drive to rip without compression. I only have 250 GB to work with, so I am looking at different codecs to convert my disks to and am really looking at mpeg 4 as my choice, because you can get near DVD quality at 10% of the original file size. I haven't been able to achieve actual DVD quality though, and that's really important to me. If I can't achieve DVD quality or better at a signifcant file size reduction, then it probably wouldn't be worth it to me.
So far I've tried Any Video Converter and Total Video Converter, and even at the highest quality settings the output still wasn't what I'm looking for. One of the biggest problems that I've ran into is what appears to be macro blocking in dark scenes. Like the dark colors don't really blend together, but instead are just blocks next to each other. I did create a video at a higher resolution that it's source in Total Video Converter, that in some ways was superior to it's source, but not so much in others. The major drawback was that it was only 2/3 the original file size instead of 1/10.
I may be asking for too much in a program that produces a superior image at a fraction of the file size, but I thought that I would just toss this out there and see if anybody has any suggestions for a program, guide, technique, settings, or even a different codec that might be better for what I'm trying to do. Of course, I'd like to stick with a free program, but if there's a paid program that's superior, I may be interested in that. So, thanks in advance, and I'll check back later for replies.
So far I've tried Any Video Converter and Total Video Converter, and even at the highest quality settings the output still wasn't what I'm looking for. One of the biggest problems that I've ran into is what appears to be macro blocking in dark scenes. Like the dark colors don't really blend together, but instead are just blocks next to each other. I did create a video at a higher resolution that it's source in Total Video Converter, that in some ways was superior to it's source, but not so much in others. The major drawback was that it was only 2/3 the original file size instead of 1/10.
I may be asking for too much in a program that produces a superior image at a fraction of the file size, but I thought that I would just toss this out there and see if anybody has any suggestions for a program, guide, technique, settings, or even a different codec that might be better for what I'm trying to do. Of course, I'd like to stick with a free program, but if there's a paid program that's superior, I may be interested in that. So, thanks in advance, and I'll check back later for replies.