7.2 gigabytes and 28 hours later...

[konichiwa]

I finally have my SVCD...gotta love 2-pass encoding. Anybody want a copy? (just kidding, moddie)

Anybody out there do any DVD --> VCD/SVCD/DivX encoding?

 

[AlphaIVT]

i do

 

[Antisocial Virge]

Ditto

 

[urbantechie]

Ask AlphaIVT, hes pro at it!

Oh yea, I can too

 

[ltk007]

I should, that'd make a good addition to my ftp

 

[Wedesdo]

what is it? pr0n?

 

[konichiwa]

Nope, it's Dog Day Afternoon with Al Pacino.

 

[AlphaIVT]

I recently attempted to rip The Killer (with Chow Yun Fat, 1989 HK movie) but i can't get it under 720MB so I could overburn onto a CD. I was trying to DIVX it.

Does 48Khz have a profound differnece from 44Khz?

 

[konichiwa]

That's a great movie. I oughta buy that one, I wish the Criterion wasn't OOP.

Why not just use a bitrate calculator? It'd tell you the exact bitrate to use to fit it into X filesize. And no, I don't think 48 KHz is that much better than 44KHz.

 

[AlphaIVT]

<< I wish the Criterion wasn't OOP >>


-what do you mean?



Yeah, i got a bitrate calc, but it doesn't calc the resolution and the Khz. So it really doesn't work that well.

 

[konichiwa]

I mean I wish the Criterion wasn't out of print.

 

[HomerSapien]

Id like to start that, but i dont have a dvd rom yet. What are some good drives (ide preferred) and what are some brands to stay away from.

 

[RGN]

I've been playing around with it. I can't seem to do Aliens. Flask thinks there is nothing in the .vob

 

[ArkAoss]

speakin of dvd's mine's hosed to heck, It will not recognize any type of disk any more, no matter what the OS. I can get the os to eject the tray. but it won't see any disks, though i was able to recover my 32x that had gotten the tray ripped out of it.

 

[Aihyah]

whats this dual pass encoding you speak of? I don't encode dvds anymore, only the large ass mpegs that power vcrII spits out

 

[IBhacknU]

I think it's cool what can be done with preserving DVD's (saving them on the hard drive, making a back-up, sqeezing it on a CD)... whatever your madness.

How's the quality though? I mean, for the time it takes, and assuming the quality is sub-par, I'm thinking it's better just to go buy the thing (until the day comes you can BURN DVD's at a price comparable to CD's)

What do ya think?

 

[TuOni]

same

 

[Aihyah]

The quality IS subpar, but it is a lot better then previous high compression methods. If you want to see movies the way they were meant to be seen(high quality video with high quality surround sound/multiple languages etc) forget divx. divx is for portability and stuff. My mini laptop doesn't have a dvd drive, so it would work for me. Its also good for encoding stuff like tv eps and stuff like that to save space. Some ppl encode movies because they are just that cheap, but its better just to rent something again if you can't afford to buy watching subpar crap to save money is screwing urself. Anyhow, encoding is more trouble then its worth for archival, its only for portability for certain situations as i've said. encoding can be really tough, many times movies won't rip right etc. to get optimal divx you actually have to encode twice, once at low constant bitrate(near), and another time at variable bitrate. Then you figure out which scenes do better on each, and make the final divx from mix and matched combo. It takes a long time.

 

[IBhacknU]

Granted, my time isn't worth THAT much, but it's worth enough to know I should just save my clams. Quality is worth the $$$ to me.

Well, in the future maybe I'll have collected enough DVDs to buy a 300+1 disc DVD changer (or two, daisy-chained together). Yea, that will do it!

 

[loogie]

2 pass encoding = encoding the movie 2x, in different bitrates to get the best quality at minimal file sizes <---could be wrong.

 

[Aihyah]

yea, the killer app for divx would be tivo basically course we need much faster processors to do divx encodes on the fly at any quality but it would make for insane levels of digital vcr storage on a harddrive