Converted mkv vs Original dvd

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  1. maethor

    maethor Member

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    Hi,

    I've tried to find an answer to this but no luck so far...

    I was wondering what would give me the best quality DVD5 backup:

    1) Shrinking the original DVD (e.g using dvdshrink)

    2) Converting a 720p/1080p mkv bluray rip to DVD (e.g. using convertxtodvd)

    The reason I ask is that the HD mkv rips look better than the original dvds (i think), so wouldn't they produce a better end result?

    Thanks!
     
    maethor, May 31, 2010
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    The HD MKV may look better than the DVD, but it doesn't look better than the
    Blu-ray .
     
    davexnet, Jun 3, 2010
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    I think they may turn out about the same. A DVD9 compressed to DVD5 will lose some quality; an mkv has been transcoded from ts (presumably) to x264 and then to transcode it back into another mpeg format may be just as lossy.

    Personally I would just shrink the original if you have it as it only involves a single compression not two different transcodes.
     
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