The Blue Planet

[HartleySan]

Well, I don't know if any of you are familiar with the series, but I'm having some trouble getting a good quality encode with Gordian Knot. For any of you who have encoded it or something similar, any advice? Thanks.

[Conspicuous57]

I have never ripped series but as a hdtvrip xvid watcher i can say that you should use mp3 audio and 640*336 (or like) resolution if the episodes are 40 min average each. (350 Mb each)

[mitsubishi]

Conspicuous57, I'm not sure you should even be admitting to watching those, but a 16:9 is 640x352 or 608x336. Although I don't know why people insist on ripping HD content so small...

As to the OP, you havn't said what your goal is for the content or the source(HDTV/HDDVD)?

Personally I take my HDTV content to 720p x264 and size it to fit 2 hours on a DVD5.

[Conspicuous57]

sorry for my english but i wanted to say that weekly released hdtvrip of the series have generally the properties i have mentioned. i dont rip them. and cannot download high quailty rips because of my dsl bandwith. ;)

[setarip_old]

@HartleySan

There is nothing out of the ordinary regarding these DVDs.

What is the nature of your problem?

[HartleySan]

Okay. Lemme clarify a little. Basically, up till now, I've only ripped American style cartoons, anime and the TV series 24. They all came out perfectly fine, but when I used the same/similar settings for The Blue Planet, the picture quality doesn't seem to good. I already own the DVDs, so I have no intentions of watching the ripped version on TV, but for my computer, I just wanted to get a relatively good quality picture, without a massive file size. Anyway, thanks for the advice. I'll give it another go and see what happens.

[chipzoller]

That series is 30i, so if you're just going to be watching on your computer and it's relatively fast/recent hardware, why not bob deinterlace to 60p without resizing using Xvid/Divx or x264 if your machine can handle it.