2019-01-05, 03:22
Good day!
Seems to be a fantastic collection of folks here, so I am sure there must be a couple who know these answers (or have an opinion) in their sleep... ;-)
Have lots of DVDs & BluRays. Have the players to play them back, when I really REALLY want the high quality ... but also am building out more and more Kodi boxes (via FireTVs) and media servers in the home, and replicating to Dad's place, etc.
Seems that MakeMKV is the Solid tool to rip, and then Handbrake to compress.
I followed some common advice to use 1080p30 Matroska preset in Handbrake, but in my test case it only took the 1:48m movie (Deadpool) from the ripped MKV of 24.6Gb, down to 8.2Gb.
Does that sound about right?
Or have I missed a setting somewhere... based on other posts, I had sort of expected about 4Gb.
The original movie is 24fps, as is the output, so have I actually reduced the framerate at all? (as the 1080p30 implies in my mind)
If my target is 2-4Gb for most movies, should I be selecting 720p perhaps? Or something else?
Thanks for anyone willing to share their experience with this... I am sure I can't be alone, and there must be many who have ripped big chunks of their physical collections. :-)
Seems to be a fantastic collection of folks here, so I am sure there must be a couple who know these answers (or have an opinion) in their sleep... ;-)
Have lots of DVDs & BluRays. Have the players to play them back, when I really REALLY want the high quality ... but also am building out more and more Kodi boxes (via FireTVs) and media servers in the home, and replicating to Dad's place, etc.
Seems that MakeMKV is the Solid tool to rip, and then Handbrake to compress.
I followed some common advice to use 1080p30 Matroska preset in Handbrake, but in my test case it only took the 1:48m movie (Deadpool) from the ripped MKV of 24.6Gb, down to 8.2Gb.
Does that sound about right?
Or have I missed a setting somewhere... based on other posts, I had sort of expected about 4Gb.
The original movie is 24fps, as is the output, so have I actually reduced the framerate at all? (as the 1080p30 implies in my mind)
If my target is 2-4Gb for most movies, should I be selecting 720p perhaps? Or something else?
Thanks for anyone willing to share their experience with this... I am sure I can't be alone, and there must be many who have ripped big chunks of their physical collections. :-)