Hi guys,
Have now nearly finished ripping all my blurays using MakeMKV, using a lossless profile. Each movie comes in anywhere between 18 and 30gb, and have already filled 7tb so I feel it's time to compress. However I'm a real stickler for quality so will want it to get to a point where it saves on disk space, but will be unnoticeable to my eyes.
I know Handbrake is sort of #1 out there but conversions can take hours (i7 laptop 2nd gen, 12gb RAM, nVidia 555M card, Win 7 64bit). Have tried Cyberlink's MediaEspresso, and Arcsoft's Media Converter, both of which shrink the movies to a very acceptable 8gb, while maintaining a high quality at 13mbps. The only issue is after it exports these (Cyberlink can only export to MP4), there is no sound. I've noticed when I add the original rip to either of these applications they report the video as 'h264' but the audio as 'none'.
I figure this is a codec issue, but downloaded and installed K-Lite Mega pack (didn't do any configuration, mind) but still no luck.
Was hoping someone would be able to shine some light on this!
As we speak I am trying something different -using MediaEspresso to compress the video, and then use software to demux the audio seperately and then stitch them back together afterwards. But it's a bit of an effort.
Thanks for your help,
Mark
Have now nearly finished ripping all my blurays using MakeMKV, using a lossless profile. Each movie comes in anywhere between 18 and 30gb, and have already filled 7tb so I feel it's time to compress. However I'm a real stickler for quality so will want it to get to a point where it saves on disk space, but will be unnoticeable to my eyes.
I know Handbrake is sort of #1 out there but conversions can take hours (i7 laptop 2nd gen, 12gb RAM, nVidia 555M card, Win 7 64bit). Have tried Cyberlink's MediaEspresso, and Arcsoft's Media Converter, both of which shrink the movies to a very acceptable 8gb, while maintaining a high quality at 13mbps. The only issue is after it exports these (Cyberlink can only export to MP4), there is no sound. I've noticed when I add the original rip to either of these applications they report the video as 'h264' but the audio as 'none'.
I figure this is a codec issue, but downloaded and installed K-Lite Mega pack (didn't do any configuration, mind) but still no luck.
Was hoping someone would be able to shine some light on this!
As we speak I am trying something different -using MediaEspresso to compress the video, and then use software to demux the audio seperately and then stitch them back together afterwards. But it's a bit of an effort.
Thanks for your help,
Mark
