DVD Quality

[GameOver69]

hey guys, if u can plz help me with the following its greatly appreciated.... I have always been using DVDShrink to rip my movies. Now usually i take out alot of the extras and unneeded audio so that i can preserve video quality. But just the other day i was backing up Dodgeball and decided to leave it all... and let the quality be compressed to about 53% or so. I thought the finished product would look horrible, but to my suprise it looked pretty darn good, just like the originial. Now i havent burned it yet to see how it would look on a regular tv, but my question to you guys is.... does compressing a dvd this much make a big difference when watching on a tv. or do u think its best to take out alot of the extras so i can get keep about 85% or so of the quality. Thanks in advance.

[tim6661234]

I'd remove extras and try to keep the main movie as high as posible. On some video you won't notice a 53% compression rate but on others you will. It depends on the content and on what equipment your playing it on. If you want to watch the extras why not pop the original in?

[ZippyP.]

...do u think its best to take out alot of the extras so i can get keep about 85% or so of the quality.

Yes, but to each his own.

[GameOver69]

alright guys thanks, i just want them to look their best, i can care less about the extras and languatges.... but i do have a question... how come alot of the new movies, even if they are only 90 min or so, the movie itself cannot be left at 100% and sometimes has to be be compressed to about 85-90% quality?

[tim6661234]

Because the bit rate of the movie is high to get the best quality. Afterall they have 8.5 gb to play with. Do they do it on purpose so when you back them up you feel they are not full quality? Probably not I've been doing this for a while and before the shrink type programs existed. A lot of movies fitted on if you just ripped that and ignored the extras but plenty didn't and had to be re-encoded manually. Thank god I don't have to do that any more!

[chas0039]

Quite a few things go into how much information is stored in a minute of video. The short answer is that the size of the movie files are larger than a SL disc.