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I have ~65 BD .ISO's on 2 1.5 TB drives, drive space is cheap and so I was willing to keep on keepin on. However using Media browser and TMT3 platinum in win7 mce is kind of a pain. The lag between mounting the iso sometimes causes issues and overall there is just a lot of tweaking involved constantly and wife aggro was growing. So I decided I would take another look at using h.264 in a mkv container. I downloaded RipRobot264 as it seemed the most painless to get my feet wet with and went from there.
So here is the point of the post, last night I converted kill bill vol1 to .mkv, it went from 24.5 gig to 4.7gig. When I checked the sizes this morning I thought maybe I had over compressed and was expecting a fairly pixellated POS version of the movie. Imagine my surprise when I put it up on the projector and found the quality was (to my eyes) about what I saw from the BD disk/iso. My question is what am I missing? TANSTAAFL and all that... this seems to be a bit too good to be true.... so is it?
My thought is that I would like to use WD TV Live all over the house fed from one central storage location. And I will be collecting more BD/Videos so I wouldn't need a full server set up.
I guess it doesn't really matter I could always just re-rip to ISO if at some point I am unsatisfied with the image quality. But if I could get basically my whole BD collection on around .5 TB that would be outstanding.
So here is the point of the post, last night I converted kill bill vol1 to .mkv, it went from 24.5 gig to 4.7gig. When I checked the sizes this morning I thought maybe I had over compressed and was expecting a fairly pixellated POS version of the movie. Imagine my surprise when I put it up on the projector and found the quality was (to my eyes) about what I saw from the BD disk/iso. My question is what am I missing? TANSTAAFL and all that... this seems to be a bit too good to be true.... so is it?
My thought is that I would like to use WD TV Live all over the house fed from one central storage location. And I will be collecting more BD/Videos so I wouldn't need a full server set up.
I guess it doesn't really matter I could always just re-rip to ISO if at some point I am unsatisfied with the image quality. But if I could get basically my whole BD collection on around .5 TB that would be outstanding.