On 3/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Yan Seiner</b> <<a href="mailto:yan@seiner.com">yan@seiner.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Bruce Nordstrand wrote:<br>> I started ripping my collection of DVD's to hard drive today but space<br>> is being eaten at a phenomenal rate.<br>><br>> Can anyone tell me what the difference would be in both size/quality
<br>> would be with ripping a DVD with Perfect, Medium or Good?<br>><br>> For example I have been ripping at Perfect and "Lord of the Rings - The<br>> Two Towers", for instance, is 7.0Gb. As you can see, my ripping is
<br>> filling up my 80Gb drive quite quickly. I know I am going to need more<br>> eventually but I didn't think so few DVD's would take up so much space...<br>><br>I tried scrimping on size early on - back in the days when I had an old,
<br>cheap, beat-to-snot 27" CRT tv. I could get a DVD down to about 600MB,<br>and it looked OK on that TV.<br><br>Now, on a 37" LCD, I cringe and shudder when one of those early rips<br>plays.... It's just awful.
<br><br>I use mencoder (not myth) to rip DVDs, and I get a full-length DVD into<br>about 900 MB - 1.4 GB. Cartoons take a lot more space than live action.<br><br>I do two-pass encoding, and a single DVD takes about 3-6 hours to
<br>complete both passes.</blockquote><div><br>Can you elaborate a little more on this process? A howto on the wiki or something?<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
You might get better compression for the same quality if you use<br>mencoder; I really don't know. mencoder gives you about 10,000 options<br>and the learning curve is steep.<br>_______________________________________________
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