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by startreksuite
Fri Apr 09, 2021 11:37 pm
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: best way to get small high quality rips?
Replies: 15
Views: 23810

Re: best way to get small high quality rips?

Sorry I just looked today woodstock. Thanks for letting me know about the Logan's Run BluRay Disc. I found the whole Star Trek Movie collection for about $25 on Amazon as well. Crazy! I just tried another ripping tool that claimed to upscale the resolution to the dvd. I'm not buying it, since so far...
by startreksuite
Sat Mar 28, 2020 12:21 am
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: best way to get small high quality rips?
Replies: 15
Views: 23810

Re: best way to get small high quality rips?

Logan's Run (the original movie) is long out of print, but the Star Trek movies often show up in the Walmart bargain bin on Bluray. I eventually upgraded all the movies to BD copies. If you go shopping, just "remember where you parked." :) Is there a noticeable difference in the Bluray ve...
by startreksuite
Sat Mar 28, 2020 12:02 am
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: best way to get small high quality rips?
Replies: 15
Views: 23810

Re: best way to get small high quality rips?

My new issue that drove me nuts is a lot of my DVD rips were 6:9 in Make MKV, but changed to 2.35.1 once converted in vidcoder and handbrake. VideoCoder does not change an can not the Aspect Ratio. What happens if you view the file with VLC? Did you still see the black filling bars on top and butto...
by startreksuite
Fri Mar 27, 2020 8:40 pm
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: best way to get small high quality rips?
Replies: 15
Views: 23810

Re: best way to get small high quality rips?

Wow! I never thought of that! I will have to check the settings, but it may be cropping them. VLC is displaying the bars until I change the aspect ratio and make it full screen.
by startreksuite
Fri Mar 27, 2020 5:15 pm
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: best way to get small high quality rips?
Replies: 15
Views: 23810

Re: best way to get small high quality rips?

I just watched the movie yesterday! It played back great on Kodi, no pixelation. It was close to Dvd quality. My new issue that drove me nuts is a lot of my DVD rips were 16:9 in Make MKV, but changed to 2.35.1 once converted in vidcoder and handbrake. I guess it will be okay, since it is roughly th...
by startreksuite
Tue Mar 24, 2020 10:18 pm
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: best way to get small high quality rips?
Replies: 15
Views: 23810

Re: best way to get small high quality rips?

I just finished an conversion/encode with vidcoder, using a android 720p 30 preset, profile on automatic constant quality set to 21. The video shrunk from 6.9 gb to 2.1 gb! Pretty good quality according to my laptop. I may yet challenge it and try a 480p hq setting and see if it makes a difference w...
by startreksuite
Tue Mar 24, 2020 7:54 pm
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: best way to get small high quality rips?
Replies: 15
Views: 23810

Re: best way to get small high quality rips?

Thanks, I currently am trying Vidcoder, which has similar presets to Handbrake. I may download Handbrake later and see if that would be a better option. I am not a quality snob, but would like to see Avatar and I am Legend close to visual quality I can get from a DVD.
by startreksuite
Tue Mar 24, 2020 7:22 pm
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: best way to get small high quality rips?
Replies: 15
Views: 23810

Re: best way to get small high quality rips?

Thanks for your reply. I guess what I am looking for is a decent file size for storing on my hard drive. I understand if I shrink the file size too low it's going to be poor quality. I am looking for a way to shrink the size, possibly by half. So how can I convert/recode/encode it so the quality doe...
by startreksuite
Tue Mar 24, 2020 3:15 am
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: best way to get small high quality rips?
Replies: 15
Views: 23810

best way to get small high quality rips?

Hello everyone! I have ripped DVDs in the past, before streaming became the cool way to see movies. I was using Magic DVD ripper, as well as trying Handbrake with DVD43. I am using a laptop, which with some encoding almost melted it. I now use Kodi and media playback, and since I noticed it has dyna...