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!
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.
