Interesting.
It would appear that it is indeed encoding to xvid at max quality and upscaling the res aswell. Whether that resolution is of any use or not its hard to say. Looking at the aspect stuff its not encoding black bars so thats not a problem.
I would still say, the compression is dramatic enough to be useful on that. You could keep the DVD quality perfectly and maintain menus/usability and not use much more room, integrates nicer with media centres aswell.
I would suggest looking into x264 rips if your really looking for quality, can add in DTS sound aswell and still reduce filesize.
The increased resolution is not getting you anything, such a small upscale can easily be applied on the fly should you wish. I have my ffdshow setup to upscale dvds/avi to 1920x1080 on the fly and it does it very well.
What your using at the minute is not actuall giving you much benefit. Your not saving much space at all (20% at most prob) and losing dvd functionality. I would either be encoding to x264/xvid at a higher compression and native resolution, heading for 1.4gb final size (ish!) or just ripping the extras/languages etc. from the dvds and having .isos.
It would appear that it is indeed encoding to xvid at max quality and upscaling the res aswell. Whether that resolution is of any use or not its hard to say. Looking at the aspect stuff its not encoding black bars so thats not a problem.
I would still say, the compression is dramatic enough to be useful on that. You could keep the DVD quality perfectly and maintain menus/usability and not use much more room, integrates nicer with media centres aswell.
I would suggest looking into x264 rips if your really looking for quality, can add in DTS sound aswell and still reduce filesize.
The increased resolution is not getting you anything, such a small upscale can easily be applied on the fly should you wish. I have my ffdshow setup to upscale dvds/avi to 1920x1080 on the fly and it does it very well.
What your using at the minute is not actuall giving you much benefit. Your not saving much space at all (20% at most prob) and losing dvd functionality. I would either be encoding to x264/xvid at a higher compression and native resolution, heading for 1.4gb final size (ish!) or just ripping the extras/languages etc. from the dvds and having .isos.
