Assistance in creating VERY high bitrate rips

[Benji99]

Hi all, searched extensively, and couldn't find any info that would help my cause precisely as most guides/info are related toward 1-2 or 3cd rips.

What I'm trying to do are super high-bitrate rips (around 3000kbits) to fit snuggly on a dvd-r.

As far as audio's concerned, it's not a concern as I'm keeping the original ac3 and dts tracks.

I'd simply like some suggestions as to what settings in xvid would help me best in achieving as perfect rips as possible at these high-bitrates.

I am using GKnot for this as I'm finally getting a hold of it and putting out some very nice looking rips, although severely undersized (set it to 3300megs, and the output was onlyu 2500megs, but I think i'm saturating the codec). So since I'm saturating it and I have plenty of space left, I could get away with some compressability settings that compromosize quality in favor of compressability.

Thanks in advance!

[killingspree]

actually in my eyes what you are doing does not make much sense. as you said you saturated the codec with your settings. both xvid and divx are made for medium to low bitrates. so basically what you have done was compress a movie with xvid quant 2, meaning you have gotten the best quality out of the codec already.
the only thing to increase the quality you can still do is to keep a bigger picture (do no resizing) - just cut off the black bars and resize only as much to get a proper PAR. the larger each frame is the more information is stored.

i personally would recommend you though to stop making avis for dvd-r and rather switch to mpeg2 compression. mpeg2 is configured for those bitrates and will yield better results in most cases (except if you are trying to put lord of the rings on one dvd-r with 2 audio languages :-P

oh one last things. if you use Lancos Resize to do your resizing you will get a bit of a sharper picture and therefor more details too!

regards
steVe