What do you guys use to encode these days?

liamcrane · 30 Jun 2011 at 11:13

Hi all

Just curious to know what people use to encode movies with these days, im looking to backup some of my older classic movies that i cant bare to lose. I have been using dvdfab to rip the actual dvd but not to sure what to use to encode to avi or divx etc. Someone did mention divx author to me never used it before though

Hope you might be able to help me out

many thanks

Philtor · 30 Jun 2011 at 11:45

HandBrake

liamcrane · 30 Jun 2011 at 11:56

Thanks for that i'll give that a look for sure

MagicBoy · 30 Jun 2011 at 12:03

Handbrake (again).

TheBigCheese · 30 Jun 2011 at 12:09

I made a related thread about this not long ago. I already knew about Handbrake but I wanted the best settings to shrink the size of DVDs without losing the quality.

Have a look at it here.

kayomani · 30 Jun 2011 at 12:20

xvid4psp is awesome, its name is a little misleading though.

mrk · 30 Jun 2011 at 13:21

WinX HD Video Converter and MediaShow Expresso. The former is a pay for app BUT MyDigital Life have featured various give-aways of the pay for version (still works) so go have a pew on there and get it as it's very good and makes use of multiple cores.

liamcrane · 30 Jun 2011 at 14:32

TheBigCheese said:
I made a related thread about this not long ago. I already knew about Handbrake but I wanted the best settings to shrink the size of DVDs without losing the quality.

Have a look at it here.

Thanks for that mate, i have just encoded 1 dvd on normal and i must say the quality seems really good at 800mb, i might give the high profile encode ago and see if there is any visual difference.

Is mp4 generally better quality the standard xvid avi? Streaming mp4 to my xbox does seem to look a little crisper than the avi files i have done

MadMatty · 30 Jun 2011 at 15:35

Staxrip is my tool of choice. But as you already have dvdfab, you could use that too to encode to whatever format you wish.

Bossk128 · 30 Jun 2011 at 15:59

Handbrake again here: I use it to encode Blu Rays and DVDs into 264 for my Popcorn.

Curunen · 30 Jun 2011 at 16:57

Vidcoder (essentially handbrake).

Cyclone · 30 Jun 2011 at 18:53

AutoGK for me

SparkyG · 30 Jun 2011 at 19:15

Super is very good

AbsenceJam · 30 Jun 2011 at 19:38

I don't, just use MakeMKV to remux since disk space costs nothing. Unless you really know what you're doing with x264 then this way is better IMO.