100% DVD quality, but a little smaller?

[poopboypat]

Ok, here is what i have been doing and I was wondering if there is a way to get the files a little smaller?

Right now I have riped abunch of my DVD's to .VOB with DVD decripter. Then I used VOB2MPG so that there would be no loss of quality. This is great and I kinda want the .mpg file format. But each movie is about 4.9 GB Is there anyway to get this smaller? I mean 2GB is fine, I will not be putting these on any media, I am using this to stream in my home from a media server.

As of right now I still have all the orriginal .VOB files and the new .mpg files. Anyone have any tips on a way to keep great 100% quality and keep the file size a wee bit smaller?

[linyx]

You are going to lose quality no matter what, the key is minimizing the loss. Try converting a dvd with StaxRip using an x264 constant quality preset. Or you could use AutoGK (a favorite among newbies:)) which keeps pretty good quality.

[CWR03]

As of right now I still have all the orriginal .VOB files and the new .mpg files. Anyone have any tips on a way to keep great 100% quality and keep the file size a wee bit smaller?
Usually there are multiple audio streams as well as subtitles in the VOB files. Removing streams with DVD Shrink or a similar app can cut down on the file size, sometimes dramatically, with no affect on the quality.

[ftdwffs]

If you want to make the video smaller, quality must be lost, but reducing the size by 1/2 will not decrease the quality too much (but ly there's really no point in reducing the size by only 1/2)

btw, VOB2MPG is completely useless; all u need to do to convert the vob to a mpg is rename it (my computer>folder options>view>uncheck "hide extensions for known filetypes"). Then go to ur .VOB files and rename to .mpg.

[Blue_MiSfit]

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or

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~MiSfit