2010-06-10, 12:03
Playing the devils advocate, id say bittorrent was by far the best app for minimum filesize/maximum quality
hrotti Wrote:Playing the devils advocate, id say bittorrent was by far the best app for minimum filesize/maximum quality
GJones Wrote:.....OR
You could trust that the Handbrake developers actually know what they are doing and use their defaults (which amazingly work rather well).
HandbrakeCLI --preset "High Profile" -i /dev/dvd -o MovieName.mkv -f mkv
Of course, if you don't care about file size, MakeMKV is the better choice (makemkvcon --minlength 1200 mkv disc:0 all .). But since the OP does care about file size, the Handbrake suggestion above is a good compromise between size and quality.
PS Setting Handbrake's quality to 100% makes no sense. The quality is measured by the uncompressed result of rendering each frame. The normal compression ratio for Handbrake is 20% (-q 0.20) and is extremely close to the original DVD quality. Upping the ratio a bit (-q 0.17) produces only marginally better images and about 15-20% increase in file size.
cable_guy Wrote:Am I right in thinking you tend to RIP DVDs on a separate machine to the one you run XBMC on then?
I used to love that my Xbox had a DVD drive and software on there to rip the DVD to the hdd with no fuss, but I've just procured an Acer Aspire Revo which unfortunately doesnt' have an optical drive and i'm loathe to add one if I can help it.