I'm ripping DVDs to WMV and would like to maintain the same quality as the original DVDs. I'm using TMPGenc with 2 pass VBR. The only configuration parameter is max bits/second. I think DVDs are around 10K bps, so I'm also generating the WMV at 10K bps. The original DVD VOB totaled around 4.5GB and the WMV is estimated to be 6.5GB. Have I set the bps too high? It seems that 10bps is 10bps, regardless of the encoding scheme. Then again, I'm a newb, so what do I know? Am I doing this right? Thanks for your help.
400MB?! But isn't that much lower quality than the DVD? I'm trying to keep quality the same. Surely you're not saying that WMV can compress to 1/10th the size of MPEG2 at the same quality?!
Why are you convert to wmv? avi or mp4(QuickTime) are better. it's use more modern video codec (Divx/XVid or MPEG4/h264) then mpeg2, so it keep quality with less bitrate.
Yeah, I agree with you. WMV isn't my first choice. The reason is that I have several DVD rips that I want to view on my TV, but I don't have a PC close to the TV. One option is to use the Xbox 360 which can display video, audio and pictures from the remote PC running Windows Media Player. In other words, the Xbox acts like a media extender. It's connected to the TV via component and actually has a pretty usable media center interface. I've converted small segments of a DVD and it looks pretty good. The downside is that it can only display WMV videos. I tried TVversity (I think that's the name, or something like that) but couldn't get it to reliably work with VOBs. If I can't get WMVs to work, TVversity is probably plan B. Plan C is to covert one of my PCs into a HTPC.
Ok. try those Video Converter it can convert from DVD(ifo) or *.vob to wmv. Select big bitrate 768 kbps(i sense 1200 kbps). Set Width Height to Original.
