Ripping a dvd with maximum quality?

RandomTom · 19 Jun 2009 at 18:37

I have handbrake and mactheripper currently installed. And after burning and encoding a DVD (with high black levels) of a local band's gig - using the film preset as a tester there is some visible compression on the file; of which I'd like to see removed.

I've tried a few different codecs / filetypes but it takes quite a while to encode so I was wondering what is noticeably better for film?

What format should I be using here to regain the quality? mp4/avi/mkv filetype? the mpeg4 or h.264 codec? and what average bitrate?

Thanks.

yashiro · 19 Jun 2009 at 18:53

Are you not restricted to mpeg2 if you're making a DVD for traditional DVD players?

If it's for digital playback you should stick to mp4 / h264 so it plays on most devices without issue.

FreeStream · 19 Jun 2009 at 19:06

mactheripper it and then burn that to disk?

Worked for me before.

Spyhop · 19 Jun 2009 at 19:16

A maximum quality rip would be a lossless ISO of the source DVD (or at least lifting the video files losslessly), amirite?

RandomTom · 19 Jun 2009 at 19:40

It's just for digital playback, not ripping back to a disc.

For example, I've converted it to a 3gb mpeg4 avi file (losing only 1gig in transfer - but the loss in quality is easily apparent when playing side by side.) Guess I'm just going to have to play about with it, but stick to mp4/h.264 this time.