Hi There, I'm new to DVD ripping converting to avi/divx. I'm after some advice as to the best resolution settings when converting dvd to avi/divx. I use 1 click to back up DVDs and Im2DVD for -> avi, which having tested a few products seems pretty good. Guides say 720x576 resolution for 16:9 TV quality - but on a laptop this is small - so i've done it at 960x528. I'd like to have good size/quality to play on laptop but if I choose to burn onto dvd to watch on TV then its gotta work! Whats best? - not too fussed about size of file - 1Gb is ok with me. Cheers in advance
My personal opinion is that even 352x240/288 (VCD) is good, unless you have a cinema screen, if the input file has great quality. Therefore, to avoid lossy features of the AVI and to get a 700 - 800 MB file, I usually convert VOB --> MPEG-1 first, and compress MPEG-1 -> AVI (DivX multipass, Slow, Portable Profile @max bitrate - 768 kbps) later. Remember that increasing the pixel number does not necessarily increase the quality (after all, you're compressing to AVI a PAL DVD VOB 720x576 resolution, isn't it? , and garbage in = garbage out). Therefore, if I have a low-quality AVI as inoput, I prefere to make VCDs than DVDs. But this, evidentely, is only my opinion. People seems to love to make DVDs from 600 MB AVIs.....
