Re: [dvd::rip] Is there a best settings matrix?

Ryan Allen wrote:

Ryan Allen wrote:

Now that I've experimented a little, it would be great to see which
clip and zoom and transcode settings are giving people good results.

So, what are the best codecs and settings for this?

For example, I riped a DVD the other night with ffmpeg and mpeg4.
The video seems to speed up and slow down, depending on how many
things are moving at any given time. It's really annoying.

I'd love to make a matrix of all settings and results, but each rip
takes hours (as you all know).

Is there a place I can go to for this boiled down information? Or
better yet a place users can submit their results?


Since I received almost NO replies on this, I decided to start collecting
data myself.  I have started a codex/quality results matrix, and I
just uploaded it here:

http://www.the-summit.net/dvdrip/dvdRip.html

Disclaimer:  This is a work in progress!!  I'm still collecting data,
and will upload more shortly.

I know that everybody does it different, and I know that people tend to
have lots of advice.  This is just my very un-scientific findings, and
they are starting to prove very useful.  I hope others can benefit from
this work.

Enjoy!

- Ryan

I've tested with xvid, divx and standard VCD,SVCD, and have decided that xvid is without a doubt the best. I haven't tried ffmpeg yet, and probably won't, since xvid does it for me.
I am not exactly sure why you use so big file sizes. You say you watch your movies on a (non high definition) TV. I don't know if NTSC makes a difference (only PAL around here), but you certainly don't need 2G/hour, just for a TV screen. Here's what I do:
a. xvid4 Ultra High Motion Search (6), Mode Selection VHQ (2), Chroma ME, HighQ AC, Trellis Quantizer, and turbo (of course you could skip this last one :)
b. Keyframes 125. If there is a dramatic change in the scene, a key frame will be added automaticaly. If not, then why do it? I think can handle 125 frames easy, without a problem.
c. 2 Pass (wouldn't have it any other way)
d. AVI container - never tried anything else, not sure if anything else works...
e. Big frame, fast resize, don't chop off any of the movie (dvdrip usually chops off a few pixels from each side of the movie... :). However do chop off the black bands on top/bottom (unless you leave space for the rendered subtitles at the bottom (I do :)
e. bpp ... You propose 0.350 - 0.500. I don't agree here. I think 0.120 is extremely good for TV (I watch my movies on a non high definition PAL 29'' TV and see no difference between original and back-up). Most movied look perfect even with on the laptop monitor. In any case, I would say never use anything over 0.150. I repeat however, I've never seen an NTSC TV, for all it's worth...
f. sound. If you use your TV's speakers, then use mp3 by all means. 128kbps should the the trick.

That's it. Byezzz