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[perkiset]

Personally, I always thought that the softening of facial hair, particularly on the softer gender of our species, was a bonus.
Not sure if I'm really ready to see all the blemishes under the makeup of my favorite starlets.

Or the fact that they are Romanian.

[nutballs]

lol perk. agreed

Kurdt. yea I used to be in video production, so I know what I am looking at (or at least should still). I will do a conversion test with one of the blurays I have coming, and see if I can see anything. Im sure I wont, but worth the proof to me anyway.

Do you have any recommendations of what settings for h264? Is it just "uncompressed" or Max or something obvious in your average program? I use handbreak.

[vsloathe]

There are guys who have been encoding for years who do this stuff.

I'm sure it is much much easier and faster now, but in my day you had to know what you were doing and to rip a DVD down to 700MB took quite a while.

I don't even know what tools you use anymore.

[perkiset]

Nuts - if you use Mac The Ripper you'll get the original files (VOBs) off the DVD without any compression or loss at all. Then you can use DTOX to move all the separate VOBs into a single one so you can play the movie in one sitting. The added benefit of a paid version of MTR is, of course, the avoidance of copy protection problems for when you are backing up your DVDs.

If you start that way, you can then handbrake the VOB image or not... leave it full-strength or h264 it down to iTunes et al, which as mentioned elsewhere is what I do so that I can see it on my @TVs, iPhones etc.

[nutballs]

i use DVDfab on the PC, which rips out as 1 VOB, so even easier.

I will obviously have to recode the BluVOBs because 45Gb is just ridiculous.

[kurdt]

There are guys who have been encoding for years who do this stuff.

I'm sure it is much much easier and faster now, but in my day you had to know what you were doing and to rip a DVD down to 700MB took quite a while.

I don't even know what tools you use anymore.

We are at the same exact boat. I used to be really active in the scene when xvid was first released and I watched it grow over divx. Then I found a lady and now I'm just enjoy watching encodings

Remember vsloathe when those perfect bitrate calculators came out. It was awesome that you could put the length, resolution and wanted size and it would calculate everything ready for you. Oh boy that was cool back then. And I remember how cool it was when I got computer that was powerful enough to encode xvid in real-time (23.976fps) from DVD.

So this answers to Nutballs as well. I have no idea what you should use now. You should go to Doom9.org which is still leading forum in this topic. But my guess is that you have to get compiled version of x264. h264 is Apple's and I'm not sure what's the situation with that but x264 is like xvid but for HD.

[vsloathe]

doom9 is good, as is vcdhelp, but I think it's now "videohelp.com". Do some work on the Google machine, you'll figure it out.