Rip DVDs to x265?

[King Mustard]

Anyone know an easy way to do this?

 

[Rensin]

Vidcoder is easy to use.

 

[jpaul]

interesting to know if it proves worth it, as opposed to x264/mkv - since may not have hardware support for the decode (eg pi, now tv box) and size will be less reduced versus x264 unless you had 4k content (where x265 macroblocking flexibility pays off)

 

[joeyjojo]

Handbrake can do the conversion. Not tried it though and it might be beta.

I still use DVD Decrypter to rip.

 

[Rensin]

interesting to know if it proves worth it, as opposed to x264/mkv - since may not have hardware support for the decode (eg pi, now tv box) and size will be less reduced versus x264 unless you had 4k content (where x265 macroblocking flexibility pays off)

Will re-encode a dvd rip tomorrow using the x265 codec using same settings as x264 and will post results.
I don't think the extra encode time will be worth it on a dvd rip, blu ray yes

 

[puppetworx]

Handbrake works well, I followed this guide - http://www.techspot.com/article/1131-hevc-h256-enconding-playback/page4.html

 

[bledd]

MakeMKV for getting the data off the disc. Better than DVDDecrypter imo.

 

[JanxSpirit]

Once you have the DVD extracted to one contiguous file...

https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/

Extract 'ffmpeg.exe' into the same folder as the source video.

ffmpeg -i input -c:v libx265 -c:a copy output.mp4

... where "input" is the name of the input file. Audio will be copied losslessly.

Further details... https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.265

The GUIs recommended are OK, but you can never be entirely sure what else they're doing behind-the-scenes in terms of farting around with internal settings that may hinder rather than help output quality.

 

[bledd]

^if you drop ffmpeg into the C:\Windows\System32 folder, that command would work without having to put the file in the input folder