Converting old DVD rips...
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I'm currently doing this with a bunch of .iso files. The following seems to be a basicly competent application from what I can tell (it's what I've been using). I haven't watched a movie through yet, so I can't promise no audio sync drift, but what is nice about it is that you can select a zillion .iso files and leave it to go, rather than doing it one by one. And it seems to make good choices regarding aspect ratio etc. I've been using its MP4 option. Known downsides: help seems to be incomplete, no command line interface, uses original .iso disc names even if file has previously been renamed. Haven't tried to rip with a folder based source, I'm afraid. EaseFab Video Converter Ultimate: All-in-one Video, DVD and Blu-ray Solution for Windows (Windows 11/10 included) | OFFICIAL[^]
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amazing . i am currently enjoying "The Firm" series and am disappointed "Roadkill" w/ Hugh Laurie provided only 4 episodes . i must say i do not understand video collection as i do not receive the same pleasure upon subsequent viewing unlike music .
BernardIE5317 wrote:
i must say i do not understand video collection as i do not receive the same pleasure upon subsequent viewing unlike music .
It's a lot easier to play (and re-play) some music over and over as it's something you can do while doing other things, like mow the lawn or drive to work. Watching a movie or TV series requires more of a commitment (sit down and watch) so I understand where you're coming from. I'm not saying I constantly rewatch old series repeatedly, but it's nice to have the ability to binge a series without worrying whether it'll actually be there on Netflix to stream when I feel like it. I'm also rather selective - anything I buy is something I've thoroughly enjoyed and would re-watch again, uninterrupted, with no commercial break, etc.
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BernardIE5317 wrote:
i must say i do not understand video collection as i do not receive the same pleasure upon subsequent viewing unlike music .
It's a lot easier to play (and re-play) some music over and over as it's something you can do while doing other things, like mow the lawn or drive to work. Watching a movie or TV series requires more of a commitment (sit down and watch) so I understand where you're coming from. I'm not saying I constantly rewatch old series repeatedly, but it's nice to have the ability to binge a series without worrying whether it'll actually be there on Netflix to stream when I feel like it. I'm also rather selective - anything I buy is something I've thoroughly enjoyed and would re-watch again, uninterrupted, with no commercial break, etc.
I would add that when a show can be streamed, you don’t know whether the content has been edited to remove an ‘offensive’ scene or some other reason. I haven’t digitized my DVDs yet and have less than a hundred titles, but I like to have them on hand. :thumbsup:
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events. - Manly P. Hall Mark Just another cog in the wheel
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BernardIE5317 wrote:
i must say i do not understand video collection as i do not receive the same pleasure upon subsequent viewing unlike music .
It's a lot easier to play (and re-play) some music over and over as it's something you can do while doing other things, like mow the lawn or drive to work. Watching a movie or TV series requires more of a commitment (sit down and watch) so I understand where you're coming from. I'm not saying I constantly rewatch old series repeatedly, but it's nice to have the ability to binge a series without worrying whether it'll actually be there on Netflix to stream when I feel like it. I'm also rather selective - anything I buy is something I've thoroughly enjoyed and would re-watch again, uninterrupted, with no commercial break, etc.
as for me i take my music listening seriously . i insist on rapt attention while listening to Yuja Wang or Chicago . otherwise though you are quite correct . i destroyed the tape player in my car some years ago as i insisted on playing Kronos Quartet "Pieces of Africa" on every trip . as for video i am fascinated by how the characters / authors will solve their problems . once i see how that occurs it is difficult for me to imagine viewing again as i then know what will occur .
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Phil Hodgkins wrote:
Make sure that decombing is on (prevents the horizontal comb-like jagged edges)
Thanks Phil. Those nuggets of knowledge is exactly why I posted. I think I know exactly what you're talking about; problem is, I *never* would've guessed the "decombing" setting is what I would need to look at.
It's always nice to be appreciated :)
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amazing . i am currently enjoying "The Firm" series and am disappointed "Roadkill" w/ Hugh Laurie provided only 4 episodes . i must say i do not understand video collection as i do not receive the same pleasure upon subsequent viewing unlike music .
BernardIE5317 wrote:
i must say i do not understand video collection as i do not receive the same pleasure upon subsequent viewing unlike music .
I guess that I am at the very other end of the line. If a movie isn't worth watchin twice (or more), it isn't worth my time at all. The concept of 'spoilers' (as something you don't want) makes no sense to me. Have you ever heard a music aficionado rejecting a work of music on the ground that he knows how the final chords of that piece sounds? Books are the same - except that time hasn't allowed me to read all my books twice or more. With a handful of my books, I haven't read my own copy even once: I have read the copy of a friend or from the library, and decided it to a book I want to have available in my bookshelves so I can re-read it whenever I feel like. I can stand by my bookshelves reading the author and title on the back, recalling its contents from memory and smile, or shiver, or whatever the book as a whole provokes of feelings in me. So I do with movies. Seeing the title, or cover photo of a BD/DVD box brings back a lot of the emotions I had when I watched the movie for the first time, and if time allows, I may sit down to watch that movie again. Even though I know how it ends. A couple movies I watch regularly, such as "Rare Exports Inc." - we play it every winter solstice, and every year I pick up some nice details of the story (/storytelling) that haven't discovered before. (If you don't know the movie, try to get hold of it for next Yule! A great Yule time horror comedy!) Even if the 'story' is a mystery story, 'Who did it?', and you know that the butler is the culprit, that is not the point (if it is a good movie), but how the author / storyteller gradually builds up the suspense, up to the big finale. You can read/watch and enjoy it again and again, just like you can watch that painting on the wall again and again. For those who like to read, my favorite short story to illustrate that gradual building of suspense, read Roald Dahl: Taste[^]. (He wrote a lot of stories with surprise endings like this one, "Taste" is the best of those!)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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BernardIE5317 wrote:
i must say i do not understand video collection as i do not receive the same pleasure upon subsequent viewing unlike music .
I guess that I am at the very other end of the line. If a movie isn't worth watchin twice (or more), it isn't worth my time at all. The concept of 'spoilers' (as something you don't want) makes no sense to me. Have you ever heard a music aficionado rejecting a work of music on the ground that he knows how the final chords of that piece sounds? Books are the same - except that time hasn't allowed me to read all my books twice or more. With a handful of my books, I haven't read my own copy even once: I have read the copy of a friend or from the library, and decided it to a book I want to have available in my bookshelves so I can re-read it whenever I feel like. I can stand by my bookshelves reading the author and title on the back, recalling its contents from memory and smile, or shiver, or whatever the book as a whole provokes of feelings in me. So I do with movies. Seeing the title, or cover photo of a BD/DVD box brings back a lot of the emotions I had when I watched the movie for the first time, and if time allows, I may sit down to watch that movie again. Even though I know how it ends. A couple movies I watch regularly, such as "Rare Exports Inc." - we play it every winter solstice, and every year I pick up some nice details of the story (/storytelling) that haven't discovered before. (If you don't know the movie, try to get hold of it for next Yule! A great Yule time horror comedy!) Even if the 'story' is a mystery story, 'Who did it?', and you know that the butler is the culprit, that is not the point (if it is a good movie), but how the author / storyteller gradually builds up the suspense, up to the big finale. You can read/watch and enjoy it again and again, just like you can watch that painting on the wall again and again. For those who like to read, my favorite short story to illustrate that gradual building of suspense, read Roald Dahl: Taste[^]. (He wrote a lot of stories with surprise endings like this one, "Taste" is the best of those!)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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I can stand by my bookshelves reading the author and title on the back, recalling its contents from memory and smile, or shiver, or whatever the book as a whole provokes of feelings in me.
I like. Sometimes I read too fast and mis details, so a second read is wanted.
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I would add that when a show can be streamed, you don’t know whether the content has been edited to remove an ‘offensive’ scene or some other reason. I haven’t digitized my DVDs yet and have less than a hundred titles, but I like to have them on hand. :thumbsup:
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events. - Manly P. Hall Mark Just another cog in the wheel
Great point. Didn't someone point out recently that Trump's cameo in Home Alone was edited out in some broadcast of the movie a few weeks ago? It's not the fact that he's no longer in the movie I'd object to. It's the principle behind it. In this case, it's beyond petty, and nobody needs that.
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as for me i take my music listening seriously . i insist on rapt attention while listening to Yuja Wang or Chicago . otherwise though you are quite correct . i destroyed the tape player in my car some years ago as i insisted on playing Kronos Quartet "Pieces of Africa" on every trip . as for video i am fascinated by how the characters / authors will solve their problems . once i see how that occurs it is difficult for me to imagine viewing again as i then know what will occur .
I get that. For a while, my "repeated go-to" movie was the Lord the Rings trilogy. I think it's one of those rare productions that deserved the awards it got. I must've seen each part a dozen times. From there, my re-watch count drops precipitously. :-) [Edit] Oh, and Band of Brothers. I must've gone through the series 6 times, and if only I had the time, I could absolutely picture myself watching it again.
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BernardIE5317 wrote:
i must say i do not understand video collection as i do not receive the same pleasure upon subsequent viewing unlike music .
I guess that I am at the very other end of the line. If a movie isn't worth watchin twice (or more), it isn't worth my time at all. The concept of 'spoilers' (as something you don't want) makes no sense to me. Have you ever heard a music aficionado rejecting a work of music on the ground that he knows how the final chords of that piece sounds? Books are the same - except that time hasn't allowed me to read all my books twice or more. With a handful of my books, I haven't read my own copy even once: I have read the copy of a friend or from the library, and decided it to a book I want to have available in my bookshelves so I can re-read it whenever I feel like. I can stand by my bookshelves reading the author and title on the back, recalling its contents from memory and smile, or shiver, or whatever the book as a whole provokes of feelings in me. So I do with movies. Seeing the title, or cover photo of a BD/DVD box brings back a lot of the emotions I had when I watched the movie for the first time, and if time allows, I may sit down to watch that movie again. Even though I know how it ends. A couple movies I watch regularly, such as "Rare Exports Inc." - we play it every winter solstice, and every year I pick up some nice details of the story (/storytelling) that haven't discovered before. (If you don't know the movie, try to get hold of it for next Yule! A great Yule time horror comedy!) Even if the 'story' is a mystery story, 'Who did it?', and you know that the butler is the culprit, that is not the point (if it is a good movie), but how the author / storyteller gradually builds up the suspense, up to the big finale. You can read/watch and enjoy it again and again, just like you can watch that painting on the wall again and again. For those who like to read, my favorite short story to illustrate that gradual building of suspense, read Roald Dahl: Taste[^]. (He wrote a lot of stories with surprise endings like this one, "Taste" is the best of those!)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
apparently you have an appreciation / understanding of film i do not . though a few films i have re-watched to wit "2001 : A Space Odyssey" "Paths of Glory" "Lonely Are the Brave" "Blade Runner" "Dr. Strangelove" . perhaps a few others . it seems to be a matter of the "feelings" generated / experienced . as for books i can re-read a book if i am fascinated by it . however even this is very limited to wit i have read "The Princess Bride" many times in particular the making of the six fingered sword a portion of the story which i consider to be the reason the English language was invented so that it can be told and of course the duel atop the Cliffs of Insanity also "Forever War" and finally "The Right Stuff" w/ exception of course my mathematics / physics text books which require multiple reads for proper comprehension so that i can learn how it turns out in the end . thank you kindly for the suggestions . i will of course examine further .
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Years ago I ripped most of my purchased DVD collection, to VOB files in AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders, so if I were so inclined to re-burn them to DVD, these would be compatible with "regular" players. They're taking quite a bit of room however (4.37GB for a full single-layer disc, twice for dual-layer), and I know the h.265 codec is a lot more efficient than the old MPEG-4 used by DVDs. I know there's a lot of programs that probably *can* convert those, even though h.265 is really designed for higher-resolution videos. My problem is *trust* - can I trust that the conversion will be done correctly? What I mean by that, is that I've seen conversions where audio and video would slowly start to drift, so much that by the time a 2-hour movie ends, the audio is "off" by a few seconds with the video being played back. And I know the source is okay. Worse, if I quickly jump to various parts in the video, this is NOT apparent, so the only way I can really tell whether a converted video suffers from this is to watch it from start to finish. Obviously I don't want to do that with a few hundred discs. Has anyone done this sort of conversion before (specifically, with the h.265 codec), and can vouch that the program used does NOT introduce this sort of problem? I don't really care about preserving menus, extras, subtitles, alternate audio tracks, etc. If I can end up with a single, much smaller .mkv or .mp4 file (over a set of 4+GB folders with multiple VOB files), I'll be happy.
The part about your experience with an out of synch thing happening. . .that would seem to be due to the player IMO. I say this because you say that skipping around doesn't exhibit the delay, which says to me that the files must have the correct information (timing info for audio and video) because how could it not?
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The part about your experience with an out of synch thing happening. . .that would seem to be due to the player IMO. I say this because you say that skipping around doesn't exhibit the delay, which says to me that the files must have the correct information (timing info for audio and video) because how could it not?
Kent K wrote:
because how could it not?
That's a mystery to me - I don't understand it. I tend to stick with VLC as my player of choice, but I believe I got the same results with other players. Hard to tell, as - like I said - it tends to drift over time, so it's not like I sat through the same 2-hour movie multiple times just to see what works/doesn't work. The longer the content, the more obvious the drift effect. So it wasn't enough to just let a 10-minute clip play out with different players. And thanks for getting back to me on this topic. I got a lot of responses about the conversion itself, but nobody mentioned anything about the audio/video drift, which was my main concern. I've yet to start the process.