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[mkvfanclub]

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[mkfelidae]

I use handbrake for encoding to a final format that I like. I personally prefer using H.265 as the video codec, but most prefer H.264, the container format that you choose doesn't matter (MP4 / MKV) what matters is what is the encode speed (in the video tab near the middle) the default is very fast (which means potato) I will lower that to slow. This means that for my computer (A dual hexa-core X5670 xeon box @ 2.93Ghz) it take about 46 minutes for every hour of DVD rips that I am transcoding and for Blu-rays it can take almost 130 minutes for every hour of video being transcoded. If you are going to use handbrake you are more than welcome to try using hardware-assisted transcoding, (look it up on the Handbrake forum if you want) but my personal preference is to use CPU transcoding, it is not nearly as time-efficient but you get a better consistency on the final output, and it usually comes out on a smaller file size too. If you use your own custome setup in handbrake, save it as a preference, also pay attention to what audio tracks you are passing-through and which ones you are transcoding. I prefer to passthrough the highest audio format available (usually some kind of 7.1 or 7.2, but on DVD's almost always AC3-5.1) as well as transcoding that same track into AAC Stereo for my phone to use. You can experiment with a test encode too. just select one chapter in the middle of a movie that you have ripped and only encode that first. Then play it back and determine if that quality suits you, once you find a quality you like, save that as a preset and feed the whole library into it.

This wasn't meant to be me pontificating but it seems to have turned out that way.

Bottom line, Turn the video encode speed down; pick a video/audio codec pair that works well for the devices you will be watching this on; experiment until you are satisfied with the quality/compression.

Hope this helps