[mythtv-users] best way to compress DVD video

[jedi at mishnet.org]

> Hello, i have a few movies that i have used mythtv to compress them and
> put
> them into my "my videos" section of mythtv.
> I recently had the idea: let my compare one of my dvd's to a bit torrent
> dvd...so i downloaded the same video as one of my videos from bit torrent.
>
> The quality of the bit torrent video was much better than mine...in fact,
> on
> my 55" tv, it looked DVD quality, where as my video file is obviously
> compressed. Both videos take up right around 800mb total, and both are 2

...it's all about the codec.

TV seems to do well enough with divx at low-ish bitrates.
Whereas films may require h264 to look good at the same bitrate.

Then the there's multiple pass encoding to consider as well as
a whole host of per-codec options.

It's funny that you mention this because George Ou on zdnet
was ranting about this sort of thing in relation to Apple's
announced HD movie downloads.

We had a difference of opinion on the subject of h264, bitrates and quality.

> hours and 15 minutes long. If my video was to be around 400mb and the same
> quality, i'd understand, but it is almost the same size (within 5 mb) as
> the
> bit torrent downloaded video.
>
> That is around 6mb per minute of video.
>
> Does mythtv just not have the high quality settings that are available to
> other video converter programs?
>
> -Thanks
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