I apologize in advance because I am a newbie when it comes to video formats. How is it possible to take a 4+ gig DVD, rip it to the HD, then encode it into .mp4 and it comes out to be under 1 gig? Now please tell me quality is lost somewhere right? If so then I can understand. If not is it all about the compression or what? My goal here is to understand this so that I can begin my task of backing up my entire DVD collection to a HD or multiple HD so that I will be able to play them via my media server.
most convertors the quality goes down no matter what what did you use and why are your converting it to mp4. is it for the ps3? if so just rip it straight to the ps3 it has avi support now !!:>
I understand what your asking edif. Your media server is connected to your HTPC? I'd like to know the answer(s) as well. What would be the best method of taking a DVD and converting to [x] for playback through whatever Front-End software (MCE 2005, etc) ?
