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Originally Posted by AZImmortal  1) The "play all" episode is not its own episode. It's merely a command to play all three episodes one after another. |
Yeah, I just noticed that. Otherwise it would be a pretty big disc.
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Originally Posted by AZImmortal 2) Just because you think that the last two episodes aren't more visually complex than the others doesn't mean that it's necessarily the case. Those two episodes may actually require a higher bitrate to maintain the same quality level. |
So it’s just a coincidence that the
last two episodes need more space than the others, and just happen to be on the last disc that has extra space? Obviously they just encoded it at a higher bitrate because they had some extra space. That’s not a good reason to be inconsistent half-way through. Why didn’t they just switch to double-sided discs or BluRay in the middle? Why not make one episode have a French audio track and another have no subs?
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Originally Posted by AZImmortal I also don't think that anyone else is going to argue for lower bitrate encodes; I know that I'd rather have more quality available to me than less, even if it means that I have to compress it myself to back it up. |
I’d rather have consistency, whatever the cost.
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Originally Posted by AZImmortal With that being said, try using another transcoder and see if you get different results. Most (if not all) have free trial periods. You can also try using DVD Rebuilder, which will re-encode the video (as opposed to transcode) and might produce higher quality output than transcoders. DVD Rebuilder is free if you use one of the free included encoders. |
Thanks for the tip. I used Shrink with the maximum sharpness and it was still a little blurry here and there. I was actually going to ask what the best transcoder is but I have always heard people say Shrink.
Is DVDRb the easiest? I’ll give it a shot tonight.