Whats the Best Format?

[Tactical Land Strike Spec]

j0, ive been experimenting with all types of formats for ripping dvds to. I want to know what the best format would be for burning a dvd to cds. plz mention the programs u r using too and maybe a link to it. THX

[BxB]

Define "best". Best quality for playing on a PC? How about "best for playing on your DVD player"? Or "best compatibility with all DVD players"? Or "most likely to produce a clean movie every time without tweaking it"? Maybe "best for fitting a movie one one CD"?

I use a format that's NOT the best quality - 1550 kbps CBR xVCD. I use the Sefy VCD method (SmartRipper, DVD2AVI, TMPGEnc), but I encode the sound with TooLame. It may not be the best quality, but it produces a good copy almost every time, I've yet to find anything that won't play it. Every movie I've encoded so far fits on 2 CDs.

[lava - tree]

have you encoded titanic yet mate???

[BxB]

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have you encoded titanic yet mate???
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Hence the words "so far".

Anything over 2 hours is definitely out. Anything close to 2 hours means I gotta do some calculation.

[DiViNeLeFT]

i choose standard ntscfilm vcds... reasoning... i never watch movies on my comp screen so the resolusion doesnt really matter and they look great on a tv. pretty much any movie will fit on 2 cds, sometimes even 1.. its easy to do, never have to tweak any settings, and i have it down to a science so that i can rip a dvd at night and have it ready to burn in the mornin...

so i guess that format is "best" for me.

[Tactical Land Strike Spec]

By "best" i meant for playing on a computer from cds. I want both quality and size. I dont like vcds because most of them are kinda blocky. So far ive had a liking of AVI/DIVX because it is both small and high quality. i try to use flask mostly but it crashes a lot. i also dont understand how to tmgenc.

[DiViNeLeFT]

if your playing on a comp, divx is the way to go... the reason why vcds look blocky is because you playing a low resolusion video on a high resolusion monitor... when played on a tv, vcds look fine... divx on the other hand is high resolusion and will look fine on a comp monitor and they are smaller file sized in comparison to a mpg generally.

[nfl2k2]

I like SVCD because whenever I try to play any vcd in my dvd player, it plays for half an hour then after than the audio and video go out of sync. but svcd stays the same with really good quality compared to vcd

[Sully]

DiViNeLeFT made the point. IF you only want to view your encoded video on your PC then DiVX is the only way to go. Most of the people who use this forum & the guides available prefer to watch what they have encoded on thier TV screen. Be it from the TV out on your video card or playing it on a stand alone DVD player. If you want to watch it on your TV then SVCD is the way to go as far as quality is concerned. Then again, it's all a matter of personal taste isn't it?