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Quick question.. I'm backing up FightClub and the movie itself is 6.04 Gig! Even if I ran it through ReMPEG, I'd have to reduce the filesize by like 25-28% which would probably make the picture quality go to crap. I want to make a backup of the disc and would love to avoid spanning 2 discs like I had to with LOTR (no way around that one.. it's 3 hrs!).
The movie is only 2Hrs 19mins.. Is it that this video is encoded at a high bitrate to thwart backups? If that's the case, wouldn't it be possible to re-encode the entire thing using morerealistic VBR settings?
Perhaps this is what ReMPEG does.. I've used it, but I haven't learned what it does (if you get what I mean).
I'm just trying to avoid having a VBR where the average is like 2000 which, IMHO, would defeat the purpose of the backup DVD...
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nevermind.. nevermind.. I need to learn how to read what is in front of me.
According to ReMPEG, the Average Bitrate for FightClub is 6200 with a peak bitrate of 8100k.
The key there is the 6200 Average Bitrate. Most "normal" movies have an average bitrate of around 4000...
ReMPEG happily scales things down according to the average VBR, which is, basically, the Right Way(tm) to do it.
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A 2:19 movie should be ok by using rempeg2. I use it for almost all of my reencodes (even LOTR) and get very little degradation in quality. Some people say that anything over 4000kb/s will give a good quality movie. Depending on the size of the audio (and extras if you are keeping everything), the resized bitrate can have a wide range. I've found that anything with an average video bitrate of 3700kb/s to 4200kb/s is very acceptable. What does Rempeg2 list as the average bitrate for the movie?
Edit: Never mind, you figured it out.
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