05-24-2005, 09:40 PM

I was wondering how you would make audio_ts and video_ts folders into a quicktime movie. I know OSEX can do it but is it good quality? I saw some of the Quicktime HD trailers on apples site and thought this would be great to turn movies into. Should I do this or should I make avi's or mpg's? I just want a good quality copy on my hard drive. Thanks,

Mattberry

05-24-2005, 10:12 PM

Rank these three things in order of importance: File Size, Time Spent Encoding, and Quality.

If file size and quality are most important rip to H.264. Handbrake is my method of choice. This can take 8-12 hours to encode a movie though. With a 2 hour movie you can get decent quality at 700MB, high quality at about 1.1GB, and DVD quality at around 2.2GB. (The last is a guess but I will rip one tonight to find out.)

If file size and speed of encoding are most important. MPEG2 is probably the way I would go. Possibly a compressed DVD format using popcorn or DVD2OneX. These are never my priorities though.

If speed and quality are tantamount, rip the DVD to your hard drive and leave it. This I will do if I want a movie for a trip and it is not one of the ones I keep encoded with H.264.

Generally I would recommend handbrake and Mac The Ripper for the above operations. I have never used osex but I notice it has not seen activity for almost 3 years, which is not a good sign.

05-24-2005, 10:21 PM

What format is handbrake? I am just looking for something that is good quality.

05-24-2005, 11:08 PM

hand brake can output as a large variety of formats, another great app is forty two dvd vxplus.

05-24-2005, 11:15 PM

I'll second the high quality of the H.264 implementation in handbrake. I'm wondering (as I haven't paid for quicktime pro) if there's a way to encode H.264 straight from QT.

05-24-2005, 11:22 PM

I have qt pro, it does not export directly to H.264, I'm on os 10.3.9. though converting to mpg 4 seems to have some nice video features and such that I hadn't seen yet.:mac: