Help I'm lost :o)

[DaSilva]

Hello I'm trying to fit Forrest Gump on a DVD-5
I've been fighting with this DVD for more than a week now but I can't get any further.

If I follow the guides here at Doom9 no problem:
I use Ifoedit to rip the unwanted audio and subtitle streams, I also get rid of the menu so the disc only contains the main movie (no extra's and such)

But it's still to big so according to the guides of to ReMPEG2.
And here comes the problem.
I have to set the reduction factor to 76% and when I remux the created .m2v file and burn everything to DVD-R the picture isn't anywhere near DVD quality in my opinion.
Sometimes when there's alot of action going on the picture bcomes "garbled" (like you sometimes see in DivX movies)

Maybe it's an option in ReMPEG2 i've set wrong i don't know.
I've done everything exactly as in the guides.

So isn't there another program to reduce the video stream but without much quality loss?
I don't care if I have to reencode for 3 days in a row as long as the quality is good no problem for me.
Time and work is no problem :)

[Streetcleaner]

Hi!

Forrest Gump is a really long movie i think perhaps is the compression to high?

Greetz
Streetcleaner

[Joseph2]

Originally posted by DaSilva
So isn't there another program to reduce the video stream but without much quality loss?
I don't care if I have to reencode for 3 days in a row as long as the quality is good no problem for me.
Time and work is no problem :)

I think the only encoder that could give you reasonable quality at such low bitrate is CCE. However, getting video/audio in synch with CCE requires some reauthoring. This thread could give you some ideas

http://rilanparty.com/vbb/showthrea...&threadid=17400

Best regards

Joseph

[Chumboy]

dasilva,

yes, it's too long to rempeg.

try splitting the movie onto a double-sided dvd-r. this maintains quality and gives you a bathroom break 1/2 way through.

[DaSilva]

Sorry Joseph but that link isn't working can you post it again?

[Joseph2]

http://rilanparty.com/vbb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17400

[DaSilva]

Thanks that looks VERY promising!

[tconnectt]

Originally posted by DaSilva
So isn't there another program to reduce the video stream but without much quality loss?
Time and work is no problem :)

I have encoded "Pearl Harbor" (3 hour movie) using Joseph2 method and the quality is astonishing. Time was not a problem, because reencoding was done overnight with CCE VBR 3 passes.

[DaSilva]

This looks like THE way to go :)
But I already have a small problem with DVD2AVI (lol, newbie in action)
Can you take a look at it?
I started a new thread about it.

[tconnectt]

Originally posted by DaSilva
This looks like THE way to go :)
But I already have a small problem with DVD2AVI (lol, newbie in action)


Don't worry. Everybody has gone through those first steps. The size of the .d2v is quite normal. That's what it's suppossed to be, because the information is in the original VOB's. DVD2AVI only prepares the information to be frameserved to other applications. Now that you have the .d2v you can use it directly in TMPG, or convert it to a virtual .avi (vfapi) to use it with CCE.