Re: 'Best' format for ripped DVDs?

["Sam Partington" <sam.partington@xxxxxxxxx>]

That would be fantastic Robert thanks :-)

Sam


On 08/04/2008, Robert James <rob68james@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Sam,
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> I have MTR 3.14 if you want it, I haven't had it fail yet:-)
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> Rob
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> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> From: sam.partington@xxxxxxx <sam.partington%40gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:29:41 +0100
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] 'Best' format for ripped DVDs?
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> I spent quite a while playing with this. I decided I wanted to
repackage
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> the VIDEO_TS folders partly because I find the whole VIDEO_TS thing a
bit
>
> untidy but mostly because I decided I wanted to keep my collection on
a
> 1Tb
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> drive, with some room for expansion, with raw that wasn't an option,
and
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> funding is low for a larger array :-)
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> My main priorities were no loss in quality of video or audio, keep
> multiple
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> audio/subtitle languages (SWMBO is italian, and my son will hopefully
be
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> bilingual). I was actually keen on losing the dvd menu, as I find them
all
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> rather annoying, and I've ditched all extras as well - I never watch
them,
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> and I always have the original disk should I get an irresistible urge.
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> In the end I chose matroska (mkv) as the container, h264 as the video
>
> compression, the audio is left in its original format mostly for
> simplicity
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> but also because any compression is negligble compared to video size.
Mkv
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> supports multiple languages nicely.
>
> The process is this : I use MacTheRipper to extract the VIDEO_TS
folder
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> into a queue folder. This takes about 30 minutes. Then I have grabs a
>
> VIDEO_TS from the queue, extracts the audio(mplayer),
subtitles(mencoder),
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> transcodes(HandBrake) and repackages the result into an mkv file. This
> takes
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> about 8 hours per disk on my mini. And then it grabs the next VIDEO_TS
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> folder. The script runs in the background and I can watch movies at
the
>
> same time
>
> I'm not complete yet - about half way through my collection (300 disks
is
>
> going to take me 3 months!). but every now and then the system mails
me
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> that it is low on VIDEO_TS folders and I sit there and feed the disks
into
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> MacTheRipper whilst watching telly, and fill the queue folder up. This
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> means it doesn't require much intervention from me, so I don't really
care
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> how long it takes.
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> The MTR stage is a bit fiddly, as I have to keep selecting "Main
Feature
>
> extraction" and click go, ideally I would automate this more, I
believe it
>
> would be possible with some applescript, but I've not had the time
yet. Or
>
> if anyone has any better ideas I would like to know. Also some disks
fail
>
> completely in MTR, I believe MTR3 may solve this, but I've failed to
find
>
> the magic newsgroup where you donate money and
>
> The resulting MKV is 2~4Gb depending on the movie so about 50% of the
> size,
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> I can see absolutely no degradation in quality on my 32" LCD, but
I did
> have
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> to do quite a lot of experimenting with the handbrake settings before
I
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> achieved that (none of the fiddling increased the file size
particularly,
> it
>
> just vastly increased the transcode time - and presumably CPU required
to
>
> playback).
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> As for playback, VLC plays nicely including grabbing he various
subtitle
> and
>
> language files. FrontRow plays just fine with Perian and Sapphire
>
> installed, but doesn't easily allow subititle switching. I will most
> likely
>
> use OSXBMC when it is more stable, or maybe I will try to contribute
to
> the
>
> Sapphire project, as that is really the interface I like best at the
> moment.
>
> Sam
>
> On 08/04/2008, rb_ziggy <rb.lists@xxxxxxx
<rb.lists%40ntlworld.com>>
> wrote:
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> > A while back I started experimenting with ripping DVDs and
serving
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> > these from a NAS. I've got this all up and running nicely.
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> >
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> > However, I'm now wondering if I went down the right route with
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> > formats. To keep it simple I originally ripped the DVDs as
straight
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> > copies (i.e. Video_TS with .VOB files). I wanted to make sure I
kept
>
> > the same quality as on the DVD so didn't really want to introduce
>
> > compression and loss of quality (we watch on a 50" plasma
not an ipod).
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> >
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> > But I'm wondering if there is a 'better solution'. Do some of the
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> > other formats offer no (appreciable) loss of quality but chapters
>
> > markers, no dvd copyright blurb, better (lossless) compression.
I'm
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> > not too bothered about keeping the DVD menu either. (But must
keep 5.1)
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> > Thoughts?
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