ripbot low bitrate help

[m3tallica]

Hi,

Been using ripbot for ages, but recently decided to reformat the hard drive for a fresh start - re-installed all required progs etc but now oddly I can't seem to get the same functionality from ripbot as before. For example, I used to use constant quality at say 17 (because size is not an issue ) and it was spitting out files with around 13k - 15k kbps which i was content with. Now however, using the same settings I'm getting only around 2 - 5k kbps when i check the output.

I considered whether it was the source? The first attempt was a relatively 'quiet' movie but the second one had loads of explosions etc but was similar in end size.

I'm just curious why this might be? Any ffdshow settings that I might have missed by accident when I re-installed it? I'm wondering whether since I last installed x264 etc and the latest update since re-install the constant quality settings have perhaps shifted balance? and I need to be going to sub 17 now?

[Atak_Snajpera]

Are you satisfied with quality?

[m3tallica]

I don't really know - I guess so. I'm just more interested in what could've caused the sudden difference since reformatting everything if that makes sense. I'm not used to this sort of change when it's been doing what I've become accustomed to for the last however many months

[fritzi93]

Haven't used RipBot much, but similar programs (e.g. BDRB, AVCHDCoder) are sensitive about which specific *versions* of ffdshow and haali you install. It may be you used different versions in the past. Still, I should think if that was a problem RipBot would simply crash rather than produce such odd results.

Anyway, the author of BDRB recommends ffdshow v.3326 and haali v.19421.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Decoder and splitter has nothing to do with smaller size. Probably m3tallica was using older version with old x264 encoder. x264 developers made few changes in past. Good advice. Always judge quality not size.

[m3tallica]

I suspect the version thing might be the case. Previously I'd stuck with 1.14 and whatever x264 I had at that time, I see now i'm running on 1.16.2 and whatever latest x264 came from their website. I just ran another file at constant quality 12.5 and now seeing rates more like previously. Odd but interesting nonetheless.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Is there any particular reason why you love ultra high bitrates?

[m3tallica]

I'm a creature of comfort. I want it as close to the original as possible in terms of bitrate but at a size acceptable to me, therefore just keeping the original and demuxing out all the crap isn't really what i'm interested in. Though I have TB's of storage, a raw BD weighing in above 30gb's just isn't economical in my eyes. I know most say you can't see the difference at the lower end of the bitrate spectrum post conversion but I feel more comfortable the closer to the original I am