something between fairuse and freedvdconverter?

[octeuron]

is there a happy medium as far as time/quality goes between fairuse and freedvdconverter?

i like fairuse but the 3+ hours it takes to convert a movie is too long since im trying to backup my entire collection.

ive tried freedvdconverter and it is incredible how fast it is but ofcourse it comes at a price with terrible motion artifacts (interestingly the economy mode doesnt have the motion/panning problems it is just that it is much too pixelated)

im wondering if there is something out there with the simplicity and speed of freedvdconverter but with a little better quality (maybe something that takes under an hour per movie?)


thanx

[7ekno]

x264 --crf 20 --tune film -o output.MKV input.AVI

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PS you aren't specifying source or target requirements, nor resolutions ... 3+ hours is great for backing-up 1920x1080 VC-1 BD's ;)

[octeuron]

700 - 800 meg files per movie is my target.
im backing up dvd movies.
xvid codec is ok.
freedvdconverter converted a movie in only ten minutes and it was only slightly worse quality than the results of fairuse which took 3.5 hours (also the output size was 100 meg smaller than fairuses)
im just wondering if there is a happy medium because i want to backup my entire collection (100+) and this would simply take too long if i used fairuse

[RunningSkittle]

Take a look at several of the (free) GUI's here: http://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?f=78

You might want to look at ripbot264
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=127611

If your just backing up your collection, and not targeting to play on a device that does not support H.264, you should use x264 instead of xvid.

[octeuron]

You might want to look at ripbot264
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=127611

If your just backing up your collection, and not targeting to play on a device that does not support H.264, you should use x264 instead of xvid.

is ripbot just something that uses other programs? which do i need to have installed? i checked out the link and thats the impression i got anyways... id rather not have to uninstall and install a bunch of things... surely there must be something out there that is like fairuse but with not so many options and better speed?

[Inspector.Gadget]

Fairuse Wizard is a wrapper for various freeware programs. As long as you're going to use a wrapper, you might as well use one that works well and is free, as RunningSkittle suggests.

[RunningSkittle]

You dont have to install anything, just unzip the archive!

[octeuron]

k thanx, ill check it out

[octeuron]

You dont have to install anything, just unzip the archive!

the first window that pops up upon installation of ripbot says that you need to install 4 other programs (avisynth one of them plus 3 others)
this is precisely what i wanted to avoid so that i dont mess up my codecs.

[7ekno]

Look at Handbrake then, no additions needed ... but without autoindexing, auto x64 detection and a limited number of profiles you risk out of sync, slower and less efficient encodes (but that's your preference to installing a few small programs that should be part of any serious encoding and playback rig anyway, ie Avisynth, FFDShow_tryout and Haali Splitter)!

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[osgZach]

I don't think handbrake is really that bad. I've never had sync issues or anything, and put some pretty nasty Anime through it that came out better than I could do manually (at the time).

I think the profiles are OK too, pretty much uses x264 and CRF as it is so it can't be THAT bad.