Ripbot264 tutorial for Interlaced VC1 to Roku mp4?

[WBFAir]

Hello all
First to mention I am hardly the most known to all this stuff, so if I sound ignorant about something, I probably am.

Basically have gotten into the streaming thing and am using Roku's and myPlex and a laptop with a big USB hardrive to put all my media I have into one place to watch.

So have been taking many DVD''s and now Blu-Rays and have been using Handbrake which took me some time to learn, but now know it pretty good. Or at least in the layman's sense to get what I want.


Anyway, just got some new Blu-Rays though and found they are in something called Interlaced VC-1 and so handbrake will not encode them, or if at all not well.

So in looking around I understand the best thing I might use to also reduce the size a bit like handbrake does, is Ripbot264. So have been looking at a lot of the tutorials but thing is, many of them are made to put the media on much smaller things with lots of the tutorial working to reduce its bit size,or screen size big time.

Anyway, was hoping there might be a good one for how to use it where yeah, it makes the file a bit smaller, but really doesn't reduce the quality that much. Oh and that puts into a .mp4 file as the Roku's kinda like that better I here.


So are there any ones for this?

Thanks for any help.

[redwudz]

I reduce BDs down to about 8GB, two pass, to MKV/AC3 format with RipBot, but it seems your device uses a different format.

With RipBot you can adjust the output size. But it you don't want to reduce the size much, you might look to BDRebuilder, or maybe someone here can give you a better suggestion.

If you have been using Handbrake for DVD conversions, you might look at VidCoder. It's a lot more 'User friendly' than Handbrake by itself and easier to set up if you need to run several DVDs..

[WBFAir]

Hello redwudz and thanks for the reply.

Yeah, actually from as best as I can tell, the Roku units can play mkv's, its just that they accepts less variables I think. Plus with what little I know for say using "mediaInfo" I kinda have gotten to know the .mp4 format better.

But in getting to using Ripbot, I think its not that far off for the mp4 to the mkv, so I was just wondering.

For the media I am starting with, as I mentioned, it's in this Interlaced VC1 format. Also the native size is about 13g (is actually a TV series so only 1 hour per episode/individual encode) and as mention is from a Blu-Ray, so is 1920x1080.

So for Ripbot, for the profile I think I might want to start out with is the [High 4.0] HD . Progressive (to get rid of that Interlaced thing?), then go for the two pass as you recommended, then as I do have some space, go for 8192 kbps?

On that btw, I was looking at some of my other Handbrake BD encodes and there in the 8000's numbers for this.

The a kinda big wonder I have is in the "properties" button next to that, I think if I understand correctly, if I use "Automatic" for the cropping, and then do not resize, like handbrake, this will essentially cut the top an bottom bars of the 1920x1080 off so it will reduce the file size, but not look any dif?

Essentially it will cut the film down to an actually size of say 1920 x 780 or something like that?

So does this sound like a pretty good set of settings?

All in all I found that with handbrake and the settings I was using, I would usually get the media down by about 2/3 its original size, so hope those would about do the same. So for this about 4g should be doing about the same.

[blud7]

Cropping is a good idea.
You will get your video being 1920x800 or whatever yeah. Your roku should handle this fine.
8192 kbps will give you very good video for full HD.

Alternatively, try a (single pass) CRF22 encode with the settings on High@4.1 and see the result.
Also, use the film preset if the video isn't grainy. Otherwise use the grain preset to retain fine grain detail.
If you don't care for absolute perfect grain, use a light denoise setting, your video size may be dramatically reduced by this.

[WBFAir]

Cropping is a good idea.
You will get your video being 1920x800 or whatever yeah. Your roku should handle this fine.
8192 kbps will give you very good video for full HD.

Thanks for the reply blud. If you don't mind. I was looking at somewhere that told me the cropping worked where if you choose Automatically...but do not choose a resize, like handbrake it will strip the top an bottom black bars. But I tried this last night and found the vid afterward, was still listed as 1920x1080. So if I really wanted it cropped, do I have to use the manual setting and try a couple of trial an errors with the preview script to see how it comes out?

Alternatively, try a (single pass) CRF22 encode with the settings on High@4.1 and see the result.
Also, use the film preset if the video isn't grainy. Otherwise use the grain preset to retain fine grain detail.
If you don't care for absolute perfect grain, use a light denoise setting, your video size may be dramatically reduced by this.

Actually its interesting that you mention High4.1 as that is what I was using alot with Handbrake....and for all my stuff, it worked well. So had tried that actually with my first Ripbot and seemed to be OK. Also tried the CFR but used 18 actually and that seemed OK. But the file did turn out to have something like only 4000mbps, although really didn't look that bad and was a bit smaller.

All in all as I mentioned, I have set up a laptop with a USB drive to feed my media to my Roku's via a server/channel called myPlex. An it works well.

So as such, for the drive I have I got a 3TB unit, so essentially I do have some room, an then also to get the top quality of picture as my TV is made for that, am going with all the Blu-Rays I can get.

So guess my point is, while I do have some concerns for space, and encoding time....all in all I want to sacrifice as little picture and sound quality as I can get away with as why loose all that when I spent so much to have it.

So just trying to get the most of that I can while still playing things well.