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| Thread ID: 105615 | 2009-12-08 09:53:00 | I have a few ripped DVDs that are in AVI format at the moment. | xyz823 (13649) | Press F1 |
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| 837721 | 2009-12-08 09:53:00 | I have been looking around online and it seems that a format called .mkv is alot smaller without losing any quality. It have read through the website and played around with some of the downloads there (mainly mkvtooknix) and mangaed to make my avis into mkvs but they are more or less the same size? Any advice would be appreciated. |
xyz823 (13649) | ||
| 837722 | 2009-12-08 10:33:00 | If you have a standard Movie DVD say around 4.7 - 6.8 Gigs for double sided, if the ripped .avi is around 700meg ie CD size then that is about the best compromise between quality and file size. The whole idea is to get it down to the size of a CD, do you get that? | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 837723 | 2009-12-08 10:46:00 | If you have a standard Movie DVD say around 4.7 - 6.8 Gigs for double sided, if the ripped .avi is around 700meg ie CD size then that is about the best compromise between quality and file size. The whole idea is to get it down to the size of a CD, do you get that? Yea all of my rips are 700MB. |
xyz823 (13649) | ||
| 837724 | 2009-12-08 11:14:00 | MKV (Matroska) is just a container - you can put almost any video / audio format inside it. Note also that MKV is rather CPU-intensive to use. Common video formats used with MKV are XVid and H.264, and common audio formats are MP3 and AAC. MKV is also nice because it can handle chapter markers, unlike most other containers. Using MKV will not give you any useful space-savings. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 837725 | 2009-12-08 17:10:00 | Don't bother with re-encoding your exiting stuff unless you've got the original source material. When you do-so, encode it using h.264 (The x264 encoder is pretty damn good) and put it in a matroska container instead of an AVI container. Also, grab Handbrake, the latest version is more centered around a consistent quality rather than output to a specific size. On the one hand I agree it's a better way of doing things, on the the other hand it's been working fine for the SCENE? Personally I'm going the way of a consistent quality and varying file-size, makes more sense IMO. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 837726 | 2009-12-09 01:08:00 | I have found PSP Video9 works good for converting AVI to MP4. Only problem I have had with it so far, the audio came out in a different language on one conversion. |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 837727 | 2009-12-09 01:39:00 | You could also try MeGUI if you're up to it | narutophantom (12610) | ||
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