Re: DVD:Rip Unbuntu misbehaving for me

Buggy Code wrote:

> I am trying figure out the bitrate setting to transcode DVD tv epdisodes to AVI
> I am using the AVI container, xvid4 at a frame of 25 FPS.
> 
> If I as setting the bit rate at say 5000 kb/s and the estimated file
> size is 1.4G
> What has happened if the file size is only 700MB?
> Did DVD:RIP ignore my settings?
> Is this an average bit rate and the transcode simply did not meed such
> a high rate?

5000 kb/s is very high for a mpeg4 transcoding. I think the video 
bitrate of your VOB/mpeg2 is around this value, so with mpeg4 (which 
compresses much better than mpeg2) there is just not enough data to 
"waste" the diskspace with such a high bitrate. Did you scale down the 
resolution as well? Probably when you keep the original resolution 
(doing an anamorph transcoding) or even scale it up (e.g. to 1024x576) 
you can achieve such a high bitrate with mpeg4... but I am pretty sure 
forcing big files is not the right goal here... ;)

Regards,

Jörn

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