Dexter411
6th May 2006, 15:19
Hi guys,
So here's my dilemma: I've backed up most of my DVD library onto a massive hard drive for use in a media center in the living room. My initial thought was, "Okay, the DVD player has these files as 6gig files and my drives total to about 2 terabytes, so that's fine," but ripping mpeg streams into "Uncompressed AVI" balloons them up to 70 GB files and, while playing the VOB files straight looks great in VLC, the time codes always have the movies being much shorter than they actually are (e.g. a Monty Python DVD is an hour and a half long, but the progress bar in the program shows it being 50 minutes long, even though the entire thing is there). Also, I want to avoid using any DivX or Xvid compression because certain artifacts (like what looks like interlacing in a progressive video stream) take away from the quality I want.
So is there any easy way to convert mpeg streams to AVIs while retaining the sub-10gig filesize or a way to fix the VOBs so that the time displayed in VLC is actually how long the file is? To reiterate, I've played back the entire VOBs and they are the full 2 hour movies even if they show up as being 1:20:00 long.
Sincerely,
Dexter
So here's my dilemma: I've backed up most of my DVD library onto a massive hard drive for use in a media center in the living room. My initial thought was, "Okay, the DVD player has these files as 6gig files and my drives total to about 2 terabytes, so that's fine," but ripping mpeg streams into "Uncompressed AVI" balloons them up to 70 GB files and, while playing the VOB files straight looks great in VLC, the time codes always have the movies being much shorter than they actually are (e.g. a Monty Python DVD is an hour and a half long, but the progress bar in the program shows it being 50 minutes long, even though the entire thing is there). Also, I want to avoid using any DivX or Xvid compression because certain artifacts (like what looks like interlacing in a progressive video stream) take away from the quality I want.
So is there any easy way to convert mpeg streams to AVIs while retaining the sub-10gig filesize or a way to fix the VOBs so that the time displayed in VLC is actually how long the file is? To reiterate, I've played back the entire VOBs and they are the full 2 hour movies even if they show up as being 1:20:00 long.
Sincerely,
Dexter