Re: [dvd::rip] Manual settings apparently ignored

Thanks for your response.

> If you want a BPP based bitrate calculation select "By quality" there, enter your BPP value and *keep* the "By quality" tab activated. dvd::rip always uses the currently selected tab as the calculation mode.

I assume keeing the "By Quality" tab active is equivalent to keeping the "Manually" tab active, since the video bitrate and calculated storage etc don't change between these tabs.

> please look into the dvd::rip logfile and check the -w option of the executed transcode command.

Here it is:

Tue Feb 21 00:33:17 2006 This task needs about 1646 MB, 11488 MB are free.
Tue Feb 21 00:33:17 2006 Starting job (2): Transcoding video - title #19, pass 2
Tue Feb 21 00:33:17 2006 Executing command: mkdir -m 0775 -p '/mnt/hda9/database/Movie/tmp' && cd /mnt/hda9/database/Movie/tmp && dvdrip-exec -n 0 transcode -H 10 -a 0 -x vob -i /mnt/hda9/database/Movie/vob/019 -w 2096,50 -b 128,0,0 -s 2.314 --a52_drc_off -f 25 -Y 12,4,12,12 -B 27,10,8 -R 2 -y xvid -o /mnt/hda9/database/Movie/avi/019/Movie-019.avi --print_status 20 && echo DVDRIP_SUCCESS

Mmm bitrate appears to be 2096 as required?

> ... the video codec obviously has problems to achieve a higher bitrate...

Codec is xvid. What codec should I try then to achieve BPP=0.4 ie high quality (or where should I find out)?

Looks alright at 600MB if you stay far enough away from the screen but hardly wonderful - very vcd. I'd rather use a bit more disk space and get better quality.

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