I am sure this has been addressed in the past so please accept my apology for my poor search results on finding this answered on the forums... I have several hundred DVDs that I would like to rip to a compressed format. I want to have them on a server to play on my 42" television. Some compression is good so that I can fit the files on a drive, but too much and I will be unhappy with the quality (for perspective - I am not racing out to get HD DVDs). Quality is terribly subjective, I know, but I do not want to rip many movies and compare side-by-side. I want a fun and easy to store media collection. Are there some general conclusions on this that folks have come to who have experience in this area? Is there a study that gives some guidance on the tradeoff? (Is this too painful a newbie question?!?) Thanks in advance for the help.
Encoded with quality based encoding (fixed quant). That way you will always get a given quality with hopefully an acceptable size.
Thanks! Those keywords helped me find this: http://forums.divx.com/forum/viewTopic.php?id=4298 A good general discussion. Any additional detail from a forum expert would be great.
My advice would be to have a play around with different settings, quants, matrices, HVS equations, etc. You might also want to consider using AVC instead of Xvid/DivX.
