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Been doing my vids at MPG2 for years and am now wondering if there is anything i should know? Im a bit in the dark I've not looked into it in a while just been in a routine re ripping.

Not looking for the best as it uses to much space but is there something thats better quaility that uses the same or less space now? All answers I look forward to viewing as always.
 
Posted Wed 24 Dec 08 @ 9:00 am
vobs seems the way people are going charlie, but the price of hardrives nowadays doesn't seem much point on trying to save on file size
 
I have been examining mkv and mp4 formats that are pretty good
It has been recommended to use mp4 formats if i decided to convert
have not decided as yet

Seems however that most recommend that I stick to VOBs (mpeg2 format) and just upgrade to a larger drive
currently i have two 500 GBs all filled.

So let's say.... 750Gb to a terabyte should do it for me.. two terabytes actually.. I hear there are even larger

Of course converting makes extra space.. but the need to read over bpm and set cues etc.
 
i just grown to 2x1.5tb drives...

thats 2 of them new 1.5 Terra-bytes, or 1500 Gig drives, set up in a Raid Span configuration to give me a drive thats 2.75tb formatted.

since setting this up, i re-ripped all my music DVDs to this new drive and i still have room for another 2 years of DVDs before i need to panik about compressing :)
 
that sound super mon.. really super
1.5 terabyte.. damn..
 
Tayla a Mpeg2 is the same as VOB.
 
oop's, eggnog
 
now.. i am smiling
 
what application are you using to convert?
 
dvd decrypter
 
thanks for getting back so quickly
 
 
DVDdecrypter to convert dvd chapters into vobs.

then leave them as that.

(unless you have less than 1tb of storage, then you should consider h.264)
 
As stated, if you have the storage, leave them as VOBs IMHO. This requires no conversion, so is nice and quick to rip and gets you the maximum quality from your DVD.
 
Thanks a lot everyone for your answers, looks like I a still doing it right after all this time.
 
Looks like I need to study what a VOB is
 
don't worry about it, it's never given me a rash before.... we had chalk and slate when we went to school, can never get used to this new fangled stuff nowadays, lol
 
 
thanks Scott, now we know... lol,
 
Sorry, I've been dieing to use that for something ;)
 
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