My SPR Rip results

[neo_sapien]

Okay, I've been working on and off for the last month on getting a good SPR rip, and I've finally done it.

Title: Saving Private Ryan
File Size: 3 CD Rip (2106 MB)
Video: DivX 3 1292 kbit/s (credits DRF 12)
Resolution: 480x272 Neutral Bicubic
Filters: None
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1

I started off with a first pass set for 2800 megs (the only way I could get around 65% Neutral bicubic at 480x272 w/out filters). Once I had done my 1876kbits/sec first pass, I told GKnot my new Total File Size was 2092 MB (add in the credits and this is 2106 megs), loaded my 1876kbits/sec stats file, calculated a new curve based on my new Total size, and lo and behold my Video Size/First Pass Size was 68.9%, well inside the 60%-100% the guide recommends.

Result:
The detail seems to be pretty damn good. In previous attempts at this rip, I had to lower to ludicrously low resolutions to make 65% soft bicubic, such as 384x208. This means there are only ~80,000 pixels in the output resolution, so it'll look pretty crappy even if you blow it up to fullscreen in 640x480, with lots of detail loss.

480x272 seems to be a good balance. It seems to do fullscreen well at 640x480.

Screenshots:
Screenshot 1-DivX 3.11 (http://members.home.net/wlabiche/SPR/SPR_01_DivX.jpg)
Screenshot 1-DVD (http://members.home.net/wlabiche/SPR/SPR_01_DVD.jpg)
Screenshot 2-DivX 3.11 (http://members.home.net/wlabiche/SPR/SPR_02_DivX.jpg)
Screenshot 2-DVD (http://members.home.net/wlabiche/SPR/SPR_02_DVD.jpg)
Screenshot 3-DivX 3.11 (http://members.home.net/wlabiche/SPR/SPR_03_DivX.jpg)
Screenshot 3-DVD (http://members.home.net/wlabiche/SPR/SPR_03_DVD.jpg)
Screenshot 4-DivX 3.11 (http://members.home.net/wlabiche/SPR/SPR_04_DivX.jpg)
Screenshot 4-DVD (http://members.home.net/wlabiche/SPR/SPR_04_DVD.jpg)
Screenshot 5-DivX 3.11 (http://members.home.net/wlabiche/SPR/SPR_05_DivX.jpg)
Screenshot 5-DVD (http://members.home.net/wlabiche/SPR/SPR_05_DVD.jpg)
Screenshot 6-DivX 3.11 (http://members.home.net/wlabiche/SPR/SPR_06_DivX.jpg)
Screenshot 6-DVD (http://members.home.net/wlabiche/SPR/SPR_06_DVD.jpg)

DVD=A screenshot of the resized AVS file pre-DivX encoding.

Try it out; it seems to have worked well for me.

[b0b0b0b]

Looks good. Do you know what the size of the movie is on the DVD?

I'm guessing you halved the size. Is that about right?

[neo_sapien]

Well, I have VOB's that contain the video stream and a 5.1 audio stream. All the VOB's put together are 6.37 GB. My 3 CD rip is 2.05 GB.

EDIT~TheWEF, look at 01_DivX and 01_DVD together. On the lower right hand corner, there is something which appears to be graininess; it is absent in 01_DVD. What is this? Artifacting? My bitrate is high enough to avoid artifacting, isn't it?