DVD to H.264 Flash at Highest Resolution

[lind777]

I am trying to take a collection of DVDs and convert them to Flash 9 playable files (H.264 compression). I want to minimize the loss of video quality and I was not sure if I should rip to VOBs first or can I go directly to the final file. Any tips would be much appreciated. I have been struggling with this for months now.

P.S. Some may be 16x9 and some may be 4:3.

[ricardo.santos]

AutoMKV

Rips and convert your dvd, select x264, main ,baseline or highquality profiles for streaming flash.

theres also Megui but AutoMKV is so much more user friendly.

[lind777]

Thanks.

[lind777]

I tried these settings and the file was 50% larger than the DVD that it came from. Not sure what is going on.

[allanon019]

I'm unsure why you're saying Highest Resolution, that's something you manually change when you're encoding.

I'd recommend Megui if you have a lot of Interlaced movies, MeGUI does an excellent job of deinterlacing and even has a built in tool for determining what kind of interlacing your movies have. (I was even able to get Futurama Deinterlaced, now that's a feat right there).

But if you want simplicity at its best there's either Nero Recode (cost money, as its bundled with Nero 8), there's Handbrake, and Auto MKV. As for Bitrate the best results for me are in the range of 850-1200 Kbps, I'd recommend using higher bitrates in movies that have alot of dark scenes, like Batman Begins.

[lind777]

How do you know if a movie is interlaced? Also how do you know pixel resolution to use? Does it depend on what the movie was originally shot in? Is there a good chart for this somewhere (e.g. 2.35 :1)?

Thanks.

[J_Darnley]

Deinterlacing - By looking at and then decide if it needs deinterlacing or IVTC. Many films on NTSC DVDs require IVTC as they have a 3:2 pulldown applied, but I don't know much on this subject. If you are using MeGUI then I believe it has an automatic detector for interlacing and telecine.

Aspect ratios - By knowing the region and the aspect ratio of the video. You should know where you live or whether the DVD is PAL or NTSC. The aspect should be shown on the box for most commercial DVDs, but this can be wrong. Then you need to decide if the DVD follows the ITU spec. Once you have got all this, you can decide on the Pixel AR. General ones used by some programs are as follows. Or are these the MPEG-4 specs?

16:9 4:3
PAL 64:45 64:60
NTSC 64:54 64:72

Or in lowest integers

16:9 4:3
PAL 64:45 16:15
NTSC 32:27 8:9
2.35:1 is not a pixel/sample aspect ratio. 2.35:1 is the film's aspect ratio. They are always put onto 16:9 DVDs with letterboxing (black space at the top and bottom)