consultant
13th January 2010, 18:37
I've backed up my DVD collection to my media server. Most of the rips are main movie only and they typically come in at 4-5GB. I starting ripping my Blu-Rays using RipBot and AnyDVD HD with a cRF of 18 at 1080P and encoding the raw PCM or True-HD/DTS-HD audio to either FLAC or if the soundtrack isn't very impressive to AC3 640kbit. The rips for the main movie are coming in around 4-5GB and look virtually indistinguishable to the source. Why the source needs to take up over 20GB is complete baffling to me.
It's driving me nuts that my lousy 480P MPEG2 VOB files are taking up more space than my 1080P rips. However sometimes I'm going to want to burn a DVD disc to take in the car (I won't use the original as my kids destroy them.) So it's easy to just burn the VIDEO_TS directory to a disc and go. But what if I want to cut down on HD space used by all my DVD rips? If I encode them to mp4 files, they'd probably end up being, what, 1GB a piece considering 1080P is coming in at 4-5GB?
1) What's the easiest solution to convert a VIDEO_TS directory with a bunch of VOBs to one x264 file (mp4 or m2ts?).
2) What's the easiest solution to take an mp4 or m2ts file and transcode it to MPEG2 and author/burn a DVD?
It's driving me nuts that my lousy 480P MPEG2 VOB files are taking up more space than my 1080P rips. However sometimes I'm going to want to burn a DVD disc to take in the car (I won't use the original as my kids destroy them.) So it's easy to just burn the VIDEO_TS directory to a disc and go. But what if I want to cut down on HD space used by all my DVD rips? If I encode them to mp4 files, they'd probably end up being, what, 1GB a piece considering 1080P is coming in at 4-5GB?
1) What's the easiest solution to convert a VIDEO_TS directory with a bunch of VOBs to one x264 file (mp4 or m2ts?).
2) What's the easiest solution to take an mp4 or m2ts file and transcode it to MPEG2 and author/burn a DVD?