On 02/07/2016 14:22, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 07/02/2016 04:40 AM, Dave Plater wrote:
ffmpeg is your best bet for high quality video from a dvd, I've never used it but handbrake looks like an ffmpeg front end. That's what the docs and the Wikipedia page says. I looked at the requires and libav* was there along with most conversion setting being ffmpegish. I think maybe they should concentrate on being an ffmpeg frontend and offer a few more presets.
You will need to configure it for high quality which seems to be selecting the high profile preset. The bitrate is part of the configuration and you can output to mpeg or mkv containers. There's a lot to configure:
<quote> Users are able to customise the output by altering the bit rate, maximum file size or bit rate and sample rate via “constant quality”. HandBrake also supports deinterlacing, decombing, scaling, detelecine, and cropping (both automatic and manual). </quote> The best simple method of ensuring good quality is to ignore maximum file size, choose 2 passes, select lowest quality number ie rf 0 (Warning lossless) and variable bitrate, these options all follow ffmpeg. It's a pity that they didn't have a codec = copy function to simply rip the titles to the same codec and simply copy to a new container. That would be ultra simple. I use ffmpeg (I program in assembler as well:-) ) but I've been using it for years and am still a novice.
If you click on help it takes you to a web based comprehensive guide to converting your dvd's. https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/HandBrakeGuide Well worth reading. In full!
I'll be interested to know what your experiences with handbrake are. Mine have been positive. There's a LOT in there and requires commitment to experiment and determine what is best for different playback devices.
I don't understand why they don't simply copy the dvd video titles to mpeg, matroska or avi containers, computers play far more different codecs and containers than dvd players or usb tvs. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org