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Originally Posted by AZImmortal  I never said that it was simply a coincidence that those two episodes are larger than the others; in fact, I'm certain that they're larger because there's extra space on the disc. However, that doesn't necessarily mean that they don't also naturally require a higher bitrate to maintain the same quality level as the other episodes. The producers may have purposely placed those two episodes alone because they're more visually demanding. |
That would be logical in the absence of information about
its production.
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Originally Posted by AZImmortal As far as your consistency requirements go, they're not authoring the discs for your convenience in backing them up. |
I’m not talking about me or backing it up. Forget about copying it at all, just look at the original discs themselves. Imagine if you had a collection of GI Joe action figures (or My Little Ponies or whatever), but half way through the run, they came up with a process that would allow them to make 12" figures for the same price as the 6" ones, and so half of the collection is bigger. Wouldn’t that be annoyingly inconsistent? Wouldn’t that ruin the collection? Or if you were collecting baseball cards (or stamps or whatever) and had a complete set that’s perfect except for the fact that they changed the background pattern on the last 10% of them? Maybe it’s just that I have mild OCD and so it bothers me when collections and sets are imperfect, but I really think that it is wrong to ruin a set. If I wanted better-encoded copies I would have bought the HD version of the set (and an HD player, and TV…) It is better to keep a set proper and consistent and when the opportunity arrives for improvement, to just create a whole new superior set. They already do that with most things because it makes more money forcing you to start over from scratch.
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Originally Posted by _chef_ There are at least 3 differen versions:
1. DVD
2. HD DVD
3. BD |
Exactly.
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Originally Posted by Wombler The best transcoder in my opinion is DVD2One but you'll not beat DVD Rebuilder quality wise because as AZImmortal has said, it does a full re-encode as opposed to transcoding.
I'd recommend DVD Rebuilder with the HC Encoder if you're looking to maximise quality. |
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Originally Posted by AZImmortal DVD Rebuilder is very easy to use once everything is set up. The one-click option makes things very simple. |
But getting it set up seems to be quite hard. Plus there seem to be a lot of options, and it looks like you have to not only buy the app itself, but an encoder too.