thunder2132 | 48 points
I have about 300 DVDs of stuff ranging from the 80's through early 2000's. Would anyone want the stuff if I started ripping them, or would I be wasting my time and bandwidth? I have several movies in there that I like quite a bit, and don't mind sharing if it's something you guys would want.
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, it didn't really seem to fit in the requests thread.
Only if there aren't HD sources for the movie available.
[-] thunder2132 | 8 points
[-] thunder2132 | 6 points
OK, I uploaded A Perfect Getaway, that's a rip that I did a few years ago. Check it out and let me know what you think of the quality, etc.
[-] jaykhunter | 5 points
That's v kind! Is there a way to see what you've got? Snap some pics of the spines maybe? 😃
[-] thunder2132 | 5 points
I'd love to, but most of my videos were copied from rentals. The others, I've long since lost the cases and the retail movies reside in my spindles with the rest of them. Back when Blockbuster was a thing, I was a member of their club, you got a free rental with every rental of a new release, and for every four rentals you got a free rental, so for the cost of two movies I'd get five. It built up my movie collection pretty quickly.
[-] Y0UR_Messiah | 3 points
To me as long as the picture is good as well as the audio, I could care less for HD 1080 blah blah.
[-] donotenter1 | 3 points
If there's no exact HD copy available, I'd love it. For example, Friends has Blurays available but they are the syndicated version whereas the DVDs has the uncut episodes. Same with Seinfeld (though not sure about the Hulu version). Buffy has a shitty HD remaster because it wasn't originally made with widescreen in mind and the color grading is very far from the ones in the DVD. But if there's an exact Bluray remaster and there's no extras, I don't see the point.
Also, x265 on DVD quality stuff is very rare to see around and I'd love it if you used x265 since HEVC really shines on lower res videos.
[-] thunder2132 | 3 points
I'm toying with HEVC on these. Getting output files around 300-400 MB. I made a mistake though, ripped the subtitles and they burned onto the movies. I'm re-ripping now. Movies on the way: The Lookout, Infernal Affairs, Three Amigos, and (maybe, it's having some trouble) Benny and Joon.
[-] kaching335 | 2 points
Depends on the release I think. Personally I prefer 1080p where possible
i think most people that know quality would choose uncompressed dvd over compressed bd
[-] OmNyomNyom | 2 points
There's no such thing as "uncompressed dvd". The DVD video standard uses H262 compression, which is vastly inferior to anything current. The audio, even at its best (AC3) is just as shitty.
If you want uncompressed, watch VHS tapes.
[-] Personal_Lubrication | 1 points
I like it, mostly for the smaller file size, but also because the super high quality stuff lags on my phone.
Do you have "The Rock (1996)"? Thanks in advance.
[-] thunder2132 | 1 points
I don't think I do, we owned that on VHS, so I doubt I would have it on DVD, but there's always a chance that I have it bouncing around in the basement somewhere. I'll take a look today.
[-] thunder2132 | 1 points
Thanks for the input guys, I'll be using a different account for this. Thanks again!
[-] Rexamillion79 | 1 points
Almost everyone has a 1080p HDTV by now...so why would anyone watch something in 480p if there's a copy in a higher resolution? I understand content like Star Wars where the superior versions aren't available in HD...but if it's available in HD I don't understand wanting a inferior copy.
[-] Pharaoh313 | 1 points
Its quite thoughtful sure if its something rare thats hard to find. If its already bluray uploads of the same content encoded & uploaded its kind of waste of time.
x265 2channel audio
[-] vcdupper | 21 points | Sep 06 2016 23:47:08
Up 1 of your rips for us to judge & go from there.
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[-] thunder2132 | 11 points | Sep 06 2016 23:48:52
Makes sense. I'll give it a shot!
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[-] OmNyomNyom | 5 points | Sep 07 2016 04:08:51
If you have a midrange or better CPU (Intel i3 or upwards), could I encourage you to use H265 (aka HEVC)? The encode time is slower, but hopefully, you'll make up for it in upload time, as the files are about half the size of H264 (AVC). The difference is even more drastic if you change from AC3 to AAC for audio. The only reason to prefer AC3 these days is if you have ancient hometheater systems that can't decode AAC. If your hometheater can handle H264, it can handle AAC.
My own motivation for the request is that I'm on a metered connection. Whatever I download, I rip to HEVC/AAC anyway.
I'm looking forward to some interesting titles. Thanks!
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[-] thunder2132 | 2 points | Sep 07 2016 10:42:02
I'll give that a shot. Looks like the latest version of DVDFab supports ripping directly to h265. The machine I'll be using for most of this is a 2nd gen i5, so it should be OK. I do have a 2nd gen i7, as well as a decent AMD 6 core, but the AMD is retired and the i7 doesn't have a optical drive.
In fact, the optical drive is going to be the hardest part, I don't have anything running a full-size optical drive, they're all laptop ones since I run mini-towers. So the encode time is going to fly by in comparison.
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[-] OmNyomNyom | 1 points | Sep 07 2016 12:19:33
If your computers are connected to each other over gigabit ethernet, you could share your optical drive across computers. The method will vary with the OS, of course. I do something like that for my regular files. And the computers, each, connect to the internet over (slow) wifi. If this drive sharing is going to be a short-term thing, you don't even need a router or switch between two computers. All you need is a capable CAT6/CAT7 cable. Actually, that's another reason I convert to HEVC/AAC: so that my wifi-connected TV can read files off the DLNA server running on my laptops. AC3, especially, makes streaming over wifi stutter.
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[-] [deleted] | 1 points | Sep 07 2016 18:18:19
Not sure if you use Kodi, but there's a feature to transcode to Dolby in real-time. Useful since a lot of stuff I have is 5.1 AAC or Flac.
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[-] OmNyomNyom | 1 points | Sep 07 2016 22:36:42
No, I don't use Kodi. The TV can talk to DLNA servers natively. I use MiniDLNA on my laptops.
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