MPEG-2 OR MPEG-4 technology?

[skorpinok]

Hi, i rip all dvd movies (100% quality) using dvd fab hd decrypter to my 1TB WD external hard disc, i tried staxrip & encoded videos to divix plus h264 (quality 19) but iam still not satisfied by its picture & audio quality compared to quality of a dvd movie in MPEG-2 format, is it better if i still prefer MPEG-2 or move with new MPEG-4 technology? file size is not a issue for me. i always watch movies on laptop. please advice if you got any knowledge regarding this matter.

thanks

[Baldrick]

If file size is not a issue then don't convert at all. No loss. Store the video_ts folder or as an iso file.

[yoda313]

Baldrick has the answer!

If you are playing back on a computer anyway and you don't care about size leave it as a dvd. Rip to iso and playback the iso - mpchc or vlc will work just fine (both are freeware).

[pepegot1]

Stay with mpeg2. Better in this case

[skorpinok]

thanks 4ur suggestions.., i watch movies using power dvd 10.

[lordsmurf]

Rip and keep as ISO.

[elmuz]

...if you got any knowledge regarding this matter.

You came upon masters in matter... (I mean the ones who answered above)

[jagabo]

MPEG 2 encoding is not better than h.264 encoding. If you had access to the high quality source from which the DVD was made, and compressed directly with h.264 (at the same file size) you would get better quality than the DVD. But what you are doing is taking a source (DVD) that's already MPEG 2 compressed, decompressing it, and recompressing with h.264. You can only lose quality doing that (with the exception of using lossless mode with h.264 -- but that would blow the size up by several fold). On top of that, you are probably converting anamorphic widescreen DVDs (720x576 frame) to square pixel h.264 (~720x400 frame), losing resolution.

[skorpinok]

Great thanks & great advices.. good thank u very much all of you..