Video Encoding - multiple formats help and best software/settings needed!

TheBigCheese

TheBigCheese

TheBigCheese

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Hi everyone

Oops, this is a long post - a brief summary:

I want software to recode DVD and Blu-Ray, shrinking the file size without losing image quality - DVD is more important than BR if that will cause a problem.

Would also like to add/stream it to an Asus eee Transformer so I'd like to know the best software/settings to use for that as well.


***Long post***

Sorry, I know this question has been asked a lot but I can't seem to find a definitive answer for what I'm wanting...

Firstly...
I've been backing up my DVD collection to HDD, stripping out the extras and recoding with DVD Shrink to make them a standard size (makes it easy to work out how many I can get on a drive!).

It's dawned on me that with new formats etc., I may be able to recode and shrink the films down from 4.35GB to a smaller file WITHOUT losing any further detail - that's the important bit I don't want to lose quality.

I currently do the same with Blu-ray - stripping it to the bare film using tsMuxer so I would be interested in recoding that.

Finally...I have recently bought an Asus eee Transformer tablet and I would like to be able to play/stream films to that so what software/settings would you recommend for recoding to that?

I tried using Handbrake and it played fine on the PC using VLC but was very blocky on the tablet. :(

I'm as interested in the settings you use as I am the software you use, I will make a hash of it if I've got to find all the settings, I always lose track of the best ones. :rolleyes:


Thanks in advance! :)
 
Thanks for the posts guys

I'm trying one of two episodes on a disc using your method Azuse05, it's going to take over an hour to recode one of the episodes, and that's on a quad core! :eek:

I'll post an update when it's done.
 
Aye agreed, it was because of video conversion results that I moved away from AMD (a long time fan) and moved back to Intel when the C2Ds came out, I'm on an i7 920 (stock) at the moment.

Thanks for the tip, I'm using DVD Shrink on it's 8.5GB setting, it's an easy way of seeing the extras etc., so I can take just the original film and make a new Video_TS folder without actually having to recode it (as far as I understand it anyway...it's certainly quicker than if it's being compressed to 4.35GB!).

That's amazing that you can reduce the file sizes by that amount, I'll have to look into the queuing options!

I tried your method and it certainly did shrink it down, a 3.5GB 90 minute episode of Taken shrunk down to 0.98GB and I couldn't notice a difference in quality. :)
 
Ooh, I've just remembered you comment about the tablet, I wondered if it was the screen or not so tried playing some full HD film trailers on Youtube and they seem to play without a hitch, so I'm a bit stumped with that one.
*edit* Ah, I tell a lie, just been watching the Thor trailer and when it jumps from bright to dark scenes or vice versa it does go very blocky for half a second...that's disappointing. :(

What settings would you recommend for a screen that is good quality (it's an IPS panel) but only 10" with a resolution of 1280x800?
 
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