DVD->MPEG4

Hi everyone,
After reading the article about converting dvd's to mpeg4 here on tomshardware, I immediately downloaded Vobdec to rip the DVD and FlaskMpg to encode, but when I encoded the DVD, I could only get it to reduce to 2.5GB. I played with the settings and lowered the quality as far as I could and still could only get it down to 1.5GB. This was with a 109min movie and the article said that up to 110min should reduce down small enough to fit on an 700mb CD.

Has anyone else tried this and had any luck? If so, please post the flask settings as I would really appreciate it.

Thanks

You compress your Audio? Or leave as PCM wave?

General guideline
Resize it and crop the blank part of the screen. Reduce your bitrate to about 650 kbits (Yucks!!), Audio down to 64 kbps (MP3 please, no PCM), you should be able to get away under 700 Mb. ==> Quality is [censored].

My oppinion == Nothing less than 910 kbps bitrate. Audio 96 kbps or more (MP3). Resize and Crop as appropriate. End results.. Two CD.. Definitely watchable and hardly distinguishable between DVD and MPEG4 if not examining it closely.

Anyway why do you guys want to rip the DVD and store it in 2 cds when you can actually watch the DVD from the DVD? Are you trying to <i><font color=green>distribute</i></font color=green>....


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I recently rip a movie : Taxi on 2 CDs.
I created 2 mpegs files using 2500 kb/s for video and 128 kb/s for sound in mp2. DAMM IT actually have the same quality then the DVD!!! No differences at all. Use Flask and the Adobe Premier plugin for MPEG. Mpeg are way better then mpg4, which are avi since it cant run on any hardware decoder. Hardware decoder for sound is way better!!! No much diff in pic quality taugh.

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