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Following up just in case someone can use this information in the future. For the record I'm on win 7 64 bit.
I did some research and found a post where someone had success going into the .ini file in ripbot and changing the following value to zero:
Usex264x64=0
I did this and it is working as of now. The question now is, I have set it up to do 2 passes b/c I read somewhere this is what you should do. What does 2 passes do? The 1st pass seemed reasonable at 2.5 hrs. The 2nd pass says it will take another 5 hours. Does it normally take this long?
I don't do 2 pass. Instead I do CQ=18. I have heard from the author of ripbot that with this setting you can't see the difference between the re-encoded movie and the original. And I would agree with that. It's also much quicker.
Try it, see what you think.
This is the best set of information I have found anywhere on ripping and encoding. It's a thread over on AVSforum. There is a guide on ripping in the beginning but lots of good discussion throughout on various software for both ripping and encoding. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1033822
Then you're better off using bitrate mode.
To be honest with 2TB HDDs at ~£60.....why bother wasting time compressing/recoding/etc?
anyone ever compare dvdfab and handbrake and whatever other popular software for converting to mkv to see whats the better of them? or is there really very little difference? i was originally just going to leave the blu-ray rips alone and use tmt3, but as im having some slight stuttering it seems that converting the files to an uncompressed mkv and using straight WMC player is an easier way to do things for now. i dont care about file size and i just rip main movies. im not doing any re-encoding to save the hd audio at this point as i have a DD encoding soundcard that makes things sound great.
ive used dvdfab for a few and they seem ok, but im just wondering if one of the others is more dependable or gives a higher quality movie.
Anyone who's time is important to them. Ya, 2TB is cheap, and but re-encoding can save a lot of space and money.
I have about 40 HD-DVD's and about 150-160 Blu-Rays that I am putting on my DLNA server. Since I don't ever want to have to rip them again, I need back up drives. At 30GB a movie you can store about 60 movies on 2TB, but since I don't want to rip them again, I need another 2 TB to back them up to. And since I have about 200 HD movies, that's now 6 TB to store, and about 6TB to backup. Getting 12 TB in machine is not that cut and dry. Sure you can do 6TB easy, but you may be doing the whole process over again if your not careful. I know you can do RAID 5 and all that, but then you are looking at picking up a good RAID card and that is easily $300. And that doesn't in take in growth, like say when Amazon has a great deal and I pick up 10-15 Blu-Rays for cheap.
I had to use several tools for the HD-DVD's that I ripped, including Handbrake, Ripbot, MakeMKV and a few others. For the Blu-Rays I am using DVDFab, I got the Blu-Ray Ripper and Blu-Ray Copy, which allows me to only grab the main movie and the surround audio track. With that I can do a Blu-Ray in about 2 hours on my system (see Sig) and output a Blu-Ray to about 5-9 GB depending on the disk. I am converting them to PS3 format to play in my living room and that also is an acceptable format for my LG player in the bedroom. (I will add that I have done movies in 1 and 2 pass and can't tell the difference.)
My wife who just got contacts and has confirmed 20/20 vision can't tell the difference between rip and disk on our 61" TV.
Just curious, for your 1 pass, what CQ setting are you using? Is it CQ=18?
Anyone who's time is important to them. Ya, 2TB is cheap, and but re-encoding can save a lot of space and money.
I have about 40 HD-DVD's and about 150-160 Blu-Rays that I am putting on my DLNA server. Since I don't ever want to have to rip them again, I need back up drives. At 30GB a movie you can store about 60 movies on 2TB, but since I don't want to rip them again, I need another 2 TB to back them up to. And since I have about 200 HD movies, that's now 6 TB to store, and about 6TB to backup. Getting 12 TB in machine is not that cut and dry. Sure you can do 6TB easy, but you may be doing the whole process over again if your not careful. I know you can do RAID 5 and all that, but then you are looking at picking up a good RAID card and that is easily $300. And that doesn't in take in growth, like say when Amazon has a great deal and I pick up 10-15 Blu-Rays for cheap.
My wife who just got contacts and has confirmed 20/20 vision can't tell the difference between rip and disk on our 61" TV.
At 30GB a movie you can store about 60 movies on 2TB, but since I don't want to rip them again, I need another 2 TB to back them up to. And since I have about 200 HD movies, that's now 6 TB to store, and about 6TB to backup. Getting 12 TB in machine is not that cut and dry.
If you are serious about your backups, RAID should never be an option and the drives shouldn't be connected to the system. I'm nitpicking yes, but RAID is for redundancy which is slightly different than a true backup. RAID arrays are still vulnerable to controller card failure, power surges, etc. Your point is still the same though, to back up 6TB, you need an additional 6TB.
Sorry, this kinda made me laugh. Just because she has 20/20 vision doesn't mean she knows what she is looking for. Both my finance and I have 20/20 vision. She sometimes can't tell the difference between HD and SD, while I get pissed off if I notice macroblocking, pulldown detection screwing up and anything less than VA interlacing. Have you ever tried explaining to her the difference between bob and weave interlacing and vertex adaptive? I have tried this once before and it made me realize ignorance is bliss.
6TB is 3 SATA drives. Not too difficult to find a motherboard with that many SATA ports.
The backups should be kept external to that machine. A USB connection should be sufficient to copy to the backup drives.
If an original drive dies, replacement is usually not that big of a deal. (once you figure out which drive is which.)
6TB is 3 SATA drives. Not too difficult to find a motherboard with that many SATA ports.
The backups should be kept external to that machine. A USB connection should be sufficient to copy to the backup drives.
If an original drive dies, replacement is usually not that big of a deal. (once you figure out which drive is which.)
Unless you want to have one logical drive to store and browse a 4+ TB music and movie collection. Then you need either a RAID card or an OS that can do software RAID. RAID 5 is my preference (software RAID on Server 2008 to be precise). For backup, I like CrashPlan, Carbonite, or Backblaze - for the ~$50 a year it costs, I save on electricity plus purchasing and replacing drives, and it's stored at a different physical location preventing loss from fire, theft, or natural disaster.