Resizing and video quality?????

[jskinner]

Ok kinda new to this and all but I think I have successfully rip'd/burn'd my first 4500+MB DVD!! My only question is this the video quality doesn't look like the original DVD quality? Is this normal or what? I followed the NewbieDVD2DVD guide (i.e. splitting into .m2v and .ac3 files then all the ReMpeg2/Spruceup....)

What I thought was wierd was that the final outcome was only a little over 3.2GBs? I thought when you used the bitrate calc that it makes it as close to 4.5GBs as it can? Anyway thought that this may have been the problem (even though the audio was right on the money)?

Any pointers? Thanks in advance??

Skinz

[Mirror_Image]

Are you asking why the quality degrades when you lower the bitrate (and thus the amount of information available) and re-encode from a lossy codec to another lossy codec?

[jskinner]

No I am just asking if making the .m2v and .ac3 files --> Then compressing the video (ReMpeg2) and converting audio to .wav (ac3dec) --> Then running Spruceup to recreate the VOBs....has any effect on the video quality?

I have done 2 DVDs one <4500MB and the other >4500MB the smaller one that didn't have to be processed like the steps above is exactly DVD quality however, the processed movie (>4500MB) is not the same quality?

Is this normal when processing a larger DVD movie? If not could it be the bitrate calc that caused it (since the file was only 3.2GBs after all was said and done)?

Thanks for da help!!