On 11 Aug 2009, at 21:02, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Stroller<strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
> wrote:
On 11 Aug 2009, at 20:31, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Stroller<strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
>
wrote:
However right now I don't want to burn to disk - only to grab an
image of
the disk for ripping to file.mp4 type movie files.
For this purpose I highly recommend dvd::rip. There are many things
involved beyond simply copying the files from the disc.
Deinterlacing,
audio sync, cropping and scaling, etc. dvd::rip handles it with
relative ease. It even supports clustering so if you have more
than 1
computer they can combine power to transcode your movies faster.
Have you tried HandbrakeCLI?
Nope, I had never even heard of it before this thread. I just Googled
it and it looks interesting. It appears to have a lot of presets that
would eliminate the need to manually select codecs and filters etc.
Try it and let us know how the videos look. :)
...
If one of the presets in Handbrake is satisfactory to you, then it
seems like that is probably the far easier path to take for your
desires.
So far HandBrakeCLI is looking pretty good indeed.
At the moment I'm working on some caveats that may only apply to PS3
playback of the video files. Cropping of files is alleged to break PS3
playback, but I haven't found that with the two movies I've tried so
far.
Running Handbrake on a trailer for the movie Heat using just
`HandbrakeCLI -2 -o file.mp4 -b $bitrate -i $input` (this autocrops) I
can't see any difference between bitrates of 1500 & 2500.
Using undvd and a target size of about 1.2gig there were visible
differences between the original DVD & the .mp4 rip of this full
movie. So I'll have to try viewing that in the next day or two - I
recall now that it was the opening scenes that I compared between the
DVD & undvd's rip, not just the trailer. There are some nighttime
scenes in this movie with large dark areas in the picture which showed
some pixellation or sorta "shallow colour-depth jpeg-iness" on undvd's
rip.
Correction to my earlier post (11 August 2009 19:58:11 BST) in reply
to Neil Bothwick: I'm using the "-2" argument to HandBrakeCLI to
perform two-pass encoding. You probably know that this gives better
quality for relative to the file size / bitrate, but takes longer to
encode.
Stroller.
