Converting DVD Rip to H264 HANDBRAKE

[Johnnysh]

Hello

Ok so I am trying to archive my DVDs which to be honest can't stand the quality of now we have HiDef Screen everywhere

Have played around with a bunch of Rippers DvD Decrypter DVD FAB and I am ripping to a lossless VIDEO / AUDIO Folder Structure to keep the Ripped DVD Images as true as the DVD Disc in quality


I would now like to encode my DVD ripped folder to get the very best result for playback on Hi Def Screen, getting rid of noise / Deinterlacing etc.

After playing around with a host of encoders winx / PavTuve DVDfab / Wondershare, etc.


I have found Pavtube gives good results, but can't help feel Handbrake is the best due to the vast amount of settings on offer

the only problem I am having is the title / chapter layout of how handbrake sees the DVD

The DVD is Grange Hill its not a film! it's layout from the dvd is menu and lots of smaller programs / scenes that you choose
they were originally 30min tv programs

when playing back the RIP folder in VLC using the DVD menu works fine

but in handbrake not so good, chapters seem to roll in to each other, there seems no start and end to each program when trying to encode in handbrake



Handbrake although very good seems weak in the video selection area on what to encode

is there any 3rd party programs that can allow an DVD chapter edit so I can import in to handbrake to choose exactly what video on the dvd I want to encode in handbrake


or are there any better programs that handbrake

any help will be appreciated

regards

[johnmeyer]

If these are commercial DVDs, then for most of them you are wasting your time trying to "improve" them by getting rid of noise and deinterlacing. There are, of course, some really bad DVDs, but generally speaking, "Hollywood" has done a fantastic job transferring film to DVDs.

As for them looking bad, that sure has not been my experience. Last night we watched a silly movie called "Reds." I got it from Netflix on DVD (you have to subscribe to their DVD service if you want a decent selection of titles because they only stream a fraction of what is available on DVD). The movie was produced within the last ten years, so it was probably shot digitally and therefore free from any film artifacts.

We watched it through a very nice high-end Epson projector on a 10-foot screen. We sat ten feet away. It looked (and sounded) fabulous. When we were finished, I streamed a few things from Netflix and Amazon in HD. I noticed virtually no difference in quality between the streaming HD and the SD DVD. I don't own a Blu-Ray, but I have played many HD videos from a thumb drive and while they look a little sharper, there are so many other things which determine what makes a video or movie look good, that the slight increase in sharpness really was not that overwhelming.

One thing that makes a huge (and I mean HUGE) difference in how DVDs look on your HD set is how you connect your DVD player to your TV set. I got quite an education in this years ago when I got my first HD set (which is still my main set for everyday viewing). I connected the DVD player using the same connections I had used for my previous TV which was a 1990s rear-projection CRT. I didn't think it looked great, but didn't make any changes until my son connected his XBox and played some DVDs from that. Wow! They looked infinitely better.

It turns out the XBox was connect via HDMI which got me wondering ... I looked at the back of my old DVD player and found that it had component outputs, in addition to composite and S-video. I was using the S-video. So I changed over to component, and the difference was night and day.

[Johnnysh]

Thanks for the reply

apreciated