Best quality rip

[snooze091]

I just ripped star trek to a 1.7gb file with dvdfab using standard settings and it looks terrible for being that large of a file. Is there something i can do to make it better? will doing a .mkv be better?

Thanks

[jg0001]

Perhaps the resolution you set was too low? A high bit rate on a low-res setting will yield poor results if you decide to blow the result back up x2+. More details please.

[For comparison, I squashed the a Blu-Ray source version of the new ST movie down to 2 GB, keeping the 1920x1080 resolution, and it looked quite nice. Yes, I know that's probably too low a bit rate for that res., but it came out great nevertheless. I made a second copy at 5 GB and I had a difficult time seeing any difference. (Viewed on a 30" Dell 3008, full screen).]

[Baldrick]

Or try another converter, handbrake or staxrip and use high quality profiles.

[greymalkin]

1.7gb isn't large at all if you're talking about dvd mpg2..it's actually much too small, which would explain terrible results.

[MJA]

you sure you didn't rip the dvd under "dvd to mobile" ?

[snooze091]

I made it a .avi under DVD to mobile(generic) with at like 770x400ish doing about 1200kb/s. Would a DVD to DVD not just get me cloned dvd?

[greymalkin]

dvd to dvd would get you the same quality as what is on the DVD. based on your last response I'm guessing this isn't what you want, but all I can do so far is guess since you never really said what you want the output to be :P

[hech54]

DVD to DVD is indeed and exact copy of the DVD...and that is a "rip". What you are doing is "converting" and degrading the quality.

[meitjie]

Hello all

I am not a techno-wiz with regards to DVD ripping and would like to ask your assistance.

I am trying to put my DVDs onto my MVIX780HD, as close to the original DVD as possible. Problem is that the movie stutters whether the movie files are an ISO copy or a Full Disk copy. (I used used DVDFab when DVDShrink was not up to the job).

I have browsed a few threads and comments on the web, however I cannot find a definitive answer.

I am at my wits' end as I cannot seem to elude the stuttering. Your assistance is appreciated.

[hech54]

I am trying to put my DVDs onto my MVIX780HD

OK? What is a MVIX780HD?

[meitjie]

Hola!
An MVIX 780 HD is a harddrive-based network multimedia player.

[OldMan64]

Does that then mean the result is being streamed across the network? If yes, that is where to start looking (at the network)