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Old DVDs ripped to WMV, any reason not to?

post #1 of 6
1/21/10 at 11:49am
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Using DVDFab to rip my DVD collection and trying to settle on a format.

Any reason to not rip to WMV? Using the WMP 10 setting it will encode 5.1 and a couple that I've tried look just as good as when I did a straight up copy of the VIDEO_TS folder. And WMV is about a quarter of the size.

Just talking old DVDs here, not BluRay. Not sure if you can rip BluRay to WMV or not, I'd guess I'd need to go to MVK. But for now I want to stay away from MVK on old DVDs. I just don't want to deal with the codecs and stuff on various PCs/laptops that I may want to play the movies on. Although Win 7 Media Center will be the main viewing software with Media Browser.

Another option is AVI but from what I can tell it won't do 5.1 while WMV 10 will.

Thanks for any insight.
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post #2 of 6
1/21/10 at 11:57am
Just leave it as Video_TS or .iso image. Why would you want to spend the CPU time to convert to WMV? Don't you also lose the menus and chapters? Hard drive space is too cheap to bother with encoding DVDs.
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post #3 of 6
1/21/10 at 4:56pm
How big is your display. On a smaller one, 1/4 compression might not look too bad, but as you get larger and larger, it will look worse and worse
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post #4 of 6
1/21/10 at 6:18pm
Not sure why you are so set against mkv. Most players will play them no problem. Plus you don't have to encode to make an mkv. Just use MakeMkv. Easy.
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post #5 of 6
1/22/10 at 5:34am
If you want to save space and you can't see any quality difference from re-encoding, that's cool. But I would suggest against using wmv for no other erason than it is the least supported format of the industry.

For the sake of future proofing, I would suggest converting them to H264 (AVC) instead. There are many programs for doing this available, check over a doom9.org or videohelp.com for the latest flavor of the month in converting software.

-Suntan
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post #6 of 6
1/22/10 at 7:00am
1TB hard drives are $89. They hold anywhere from 150-200 uncompressed DVDs (225-250 if you are just ripping the main movie). Not sure how many DVDs you have, but encoding to any format takes time. How much is your time worth?

Chris
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