passes vs. size of rip

[empty1]

Maybe this has been asked before, but I am wondering about how many passes I should chose and how that relates to the size of the original.
Am I right in assuming that the smaller the rip, the less passes that should be applied, and if the rip is approaching 8+ Gig, I should increase the number of passes?

[erdoke]

Originally posted by empty1
Maybe this has been asked before, but I am wondering about how many passes I should chose and how that relates to the size of the original.
Am I right in assuming that the smaller the rip, the less passes that should be applied, and if the rip is approaching 8+ Gig, I should increase the number of passes?

If a rip is not much bigger than DVD5 capacity (4,37 GB), I suggest you to use a transcoder, for example DVDShrink (free) or CloneDVD2 (not free). If it is around 5,5-6 GB or even more, utilize CCE's encoding capabilities. 2 or 3 passes enough for almost every material, but even at the most extreme cases there is no sense to use more than 5 passes.
This is my experience in general, but preferences differ just like movies, so no golden rules are out there.;)