best way of reencoding a m2v to reduce file size ???

[2ize]

i recently extracted the vobs from lord of the rings pal dvd with smartripper and was left with the m2v file thAT WAS over 4.7 gig (5.1gig)

i used the method from the vcd help guide dvd to dvdr

and reencoded the file with rempeg with the setting s provided but the result is quite lossy and also took over 74 hours to complete (with a 1.1 gig athlon over 600 meg of ram and geforce card)
does anyone have a better way of reducing filesize without lossing as much quality as i had a divx version of lord of the rings that i reencoded to m2v and it is better quality than the file i have reencoded and also is 74 hours normal for this sort of operation????

any help or tips would be so much apreciated as im sortoff confused

regards rob

[tmcmvd]

Hmm... the M2V file you have left is the complete movie in MPEG2 in it's original bitrate. Reencoding can also be done with TMPGenc. If the file gets smaller depends on the bitrate used, but also on the original bitrate. The movie perhaps is very long and allready in a lower bitrate, so reducing it more becomes visible.

When reencoding VBR 2500-3500-4500 you will fit around 30 minutes on a 800 MB cd and barely see the difference.

It may indeed take this long..using cce is fastest, but TMPGenc doesn't do a bad job.

Try a short clip a time with different settings in stead of waiting 72 hours for something that didn't work.

Other possiblity is only reencoding the audio (also tmpg) to reduce a little bit filesize... cuttin gof the credits reduces size also.

use MPEGPROP (tools section on the bottom) to see the current bitrate of the mpeg file. Go abOUT 10% below that when reencoding.

good luck.

greetz.

good luck.

[2ize]

thanks for the reply man but i tried tmpeg with th e plugin n the quality is again pretty shitty

btw does cce open m2v or mpeg files ???
ive tried cce sp n it wiont doi a thing

any other ideas or techniques would be excellant

regards rob

[tmcmvd]

well.. that you have one solution... convert the m2v file with dvd2mpeg to AVI and then reencode with cce. If that doesn't work..I'm out of options. Should work btw. If that also gives a bad quality you must be something doing somethin wrong at some point.

greetz.

Mike.

[spooki]

have a look at http://www.doom9.org/mpg/cce-advanced.htm

works fine for me although i just do a 3 pass vbr in CCE rather than CBR. produces excellent results