Best video format for keeping/playing from HDD

Discussion in 'Other video questions' started by Gauntlet, Aug 31, 2003.

  1. Gauntlet

    Gauntlet Guest

    I am going to rip my DVDs, VHS, and D8 videos down to my hard drive and let it be served from a linux samba mount to other pc's throughout the house. In my opinion Disk space is cheap and I can always add more space. What is the best format to store all of this stuff in.

    Thanx,
    Alan
     
    Gauntlet, Aug 31, 2003
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  2. Dela

    Dela Administrator Staff Member

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    for dvd rips definately xvid with ac3 audio :)
     
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  3. powerdup

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    If you are going to encode your dvds with an xvid or divx codec, id suggest using the 1-pass quality based option and set the quantizer setting to the lowest available which is 1 with the newer mpeg 4 codecs. You will get the best possible quality this way.
     
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  4. Gauntlet

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    Thanx for you help. I'll post how things turn out.


    Alan
     
    Gauntlet, Sep 6, 2003
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