something between fairuse and freedvdconverter?

[octeuron]

is there a happy medium as far as time/quality goes between fairuse and freedvdconverter?

i like fairuse but the 3+ hours it takes to convert a movie is too long since im trying to backup my entire collection.

ive tried freedvdconverter and it is incredible how fast it is but ofcourse it comes at a price with terrible motion artifacts (interestingly the economy mode doesnt have the motion/panning problems it is just that it is much too pixelated)

im wondering if there is something out there with the simplicity and speed of freedvdconverter but with a little better quality (maybe something that takes under an hour per movie?)
it needs to be able to read from dvd drive and output to avi

thanx

[Baldrick]

What encoding settings are you using in fairuse? Like 2-pass encoding is slower than constant quality or 1 pass.

Or try StaxRip or AutoGK or HandBrake.

[redwudz]

If you use the same codec with the same settings, all conversion programs will take about the same amount of time. The codec settings mostly determine the quality and encoding times. If one program using the Xvid codec, for example, takes half the time of another, then the codec settings there will give you half the quality, or thereabouts.

Most of us have found the real solution is a faster computer and keep the quality or live with the time it takes a slower computer to do a proper conversion.

You might look into doing batch conversions overnight as one way to get the job done and preserve the quality.

[octeuron]

What encoding settings are you using in fairuse? Like 2-pass encoding is slower than constant quality or 1 pass.

Or try StaxRip or AutoGK or HandBrake.

ive tried different settings in fairuse but even the one pass is slow.
the three apps you recommended above... do they support loading from optical drive? i think only autoGK does and it is also too slow for my needs

[freebird73717]

I know handbrake does. But why load from optical drive? Just rip to hard disk first then encode from there.

[octeuron]

If you use the same codec with the same settings, all conversion programs will take about the same amount of time. The codec settings mostly determine the quality and encoding times. If one program using the Xvid codec, for example, takes half the time of another, then the codec settings there will give you half the quality, or thereabouts.

Most of us have found the real solution is a faster computer and keep the quality or live with the time it takes a slower computer to do a proper conversion.

You might look into doing batch conversions overnight as one way to get the job done and preserve the quality.

im trying to find a happy medium between conversion time and quality (so as opposed to most people here to which quality is the only concern I am happy to give up some quality for quantity)

the time differences between fairuse and freedvdconverter is HUGE. 3+ hours to something like 15 minutes.
im thinking there must be something in between?

here is something interesting that ive noticed: the same movie that i backed up (with fairuse and freedvdconverter) were actually comparable when i played back the freedvdconverter version with windows media player (which enabled two ffdshow plugins).. the only issue was that WMP+ffdshow stretched the aspect ratio to fit screen which vlc didnt do (however the vlc playback of that same file was way too pixelated and unwatchable)

[octeuron]

I know handbrake does. But why load from optical drive? Just rip to hard disk first then encode from there.

because when you have to repeat the same process over a hundred times, you cut the time in half by avoiding such a process

[octeuron]

any other recommendations?

[octeuron]

fairuse keeps crashing on me.

surely someone knows of something else i can use?