Blu-ray 25G disc. Movie only quality 75% ?

[jlm86]

So i am copying movie only over to 25G disc, and the DVD Fab says it is 75% quality or something like that?

I had thought that "movie only" would be 100% on a 25G disc?

For movie only, what is highest quality to achieve with frequent movie titles?

ImgBurn essentially does the same thing i believe...

[yoda313]

I had thought that "movie only" would be 100% on a 25G disc?

It's just like working with dvd. If the movie itself without anything extra still won't fit on a disc it has to be transcoded to fit. My guess is if its not reporting 100% than the movie only size is larger than single layer bluray hence the need for compression.

Are you sure you have deselected extraneous audio tracks? Also is the dts-ma audio? Or if its lpcm uncompressed than you may have a large overhead just for the audio compared to dolby digital. I'd try selecting the lowest quality audio track (assuming its in your native language and is not a commentary track). That way you'll save some disc space by having a lower audio size.

If you're hell bent on retaining top quality you may have to settle and get a dual layer bluray disc to burn to . I don't have a bluray burner only a bluray rom drive so I don't even know if they make blank dual layer bluray discs for home burning.

Otherwise you'll have to live with compression if the movie only selection doesn't fit on a single layer bluray.

Alternately of course if you have a hd media player like a wdtv you can rip then load to a harddrive and leave it at that without worrying about burning.

[wulf109]

I would let DVDfab "rip" the disk as movie only at 100% and run the result through BDrebuilder. BDrebuilder's encode process is far superior to DVDfab. BDrebuilder will not convert the video unless it's too large to fit on a BD25. Around 50% of movie only won't need encoding,another 25% will fit if you convert the HD audio to 640-AC3 and another 25% will need encoding even if you convert the audio to ac3.

[jlm86]

what do you use for ripping movie only? I look at the DVDFab, and BD Ripper ask for PS3, XBOX etc?

[hech54]

I had thought that "movie only" would be 100% on a 25G disc?

Whoever told you that is dead wrong. What if the movie is over 3 hours long compared to the normal 1.5 hours?

ImgBurn essentially does the same thing i believe...

ImgBurn does nothing of the kind. ImgBurn is a BURNING program.....nothing more.

You need to stop listening to people who think they know what they are talking about. Right now you are
almost going in the complete opposite direction that you should be going.

[jlm86]

ok thank for the clarification...
BD rip/copy appears to have greater learning curve then just basic DVD rip/copy all-in-one ....

I am testing the BD Rebuilder as we speak.....


The one basic question i might ask, is if the h264 is such a wonderful file/playback design, and has great size managability, why not just have backups of the h264 files on Hard Drive and/or Blank BD media at 2-4 G per file....

I was looking at another thread where having an external HD, say 2TB, and having all my movies ripped H264 to there....

thanks. will make notation back when i finish first burn...

[hech54]

H264 is great.....but you still need to know that "a file burned to a DVD or Blu Ray disc" does NOT make it a playable disc. You can't just drag and drop an MPEG file and have it play in any DVD player can you?....NO.
So how are you going to watch these H264 files?....on your computer only?
Not all hard drive players(attached to a TV) play H264 files. DVD/Blu Ray players are notorious for playing only certain types of files from certain types of media. Some only play Xvid/Divx AVI files via USB stick....NOT to burned DVD or Blu Ray media....etc etc etc.
Every player is different and you must read the specs of each and every player you intend to buy(or already own) to get the right file type.
Simply "burning video files to a disc" or "copying video files to an external Hard Drive" ain't gonna make it.

[jlm86]

I have been streaming Playstation 3 via PS3 Media Server, and plays .mkv, mp4, and really anything you throw at it configured properly...really cool

A typical movie , H264, widescreen at 2G size average, looks absolutely incredible on 55" LCD....

No chapters usually, and sometime the navigation for FFW/REEW do not work wonderful...

[hech54]

Then there you go....you have your answer. Get more HDD space(if necessary) and "file away"...