DVD Ripping Software, Few questions

Which program do you guys perfer? Currently I'm ripping DVDs with Daniusoft Video Converter Ultimate. It's a great programs, but I'm ripping them into .avi format. My issue is that the program will only rip in 2GB sections. So if the movie goes over 2GB, it breaks it in to two files.

I don't really care about how large a file is, trying to keep each DVD around 8-10GB ripped. Is there another format that I can use that would be better quality? I'm not to hip on the differant formats. I want to play them later on my laptop 1920x1200 at full screen, with no loss in quality.

What format should I use?

What program do you perfer and why?

Is there any program that will allow me to piece together two avi files?

Currently the program I'm using the files come back with lines in them like theres every other line in the areas where theres a lot of action. Just looking for some help. Thanks guys.

 

A DVD converting to 8-10GB ripped? You realize a normal DVD is only 4GB for the entire disc, and that's in MPEG2 encoding? You have some seriously incorrect settings there. You're not gaining any quality by having it at 10GB... you're just wasting disk space. Most HD rips are just barely passing 10GB for H.264 encoding.

Handbrake is probably the best program out there to encode video files.

 

Thats what I was wondering, One of the dvds was an HD rip, but I wasn't sure how they could get so big when the disc it'self doesn't hold that much. Tried to find things in the settings, and the DVD when loaded, shows 720x480 or something like that. Is that a standard size? I think the size I was ripping to was 1440x?? don't remember, but is this just making it worse? It seemed like the lowest was 8GB. Maybe because I'm ripping a non HD dvd to an HD avi format? SHould I go with a standard .avi?

What would be the best file format to rip to? Sorry for all the questions, just always copied the DVDs, now I'm getting into ripping them more and storing on a HDD

 

h.264 is itself heavily compressed as are the various mpeg formats. If you are ripping to a format that doesn't support compression (or another format with compression set to zero) than your resulting files will be huge.

Don't rip to your screen size as this implies either up or down sampling. Rip to the format/resolution of the original material and enable a modest amount of compression.

 

Ok, thanks I'm ripping a dvd with Handbrake at the moment to see how it compares to Daniusoft rips I've done. My goal is to have the files look like the same quality as if I was playing the DVD itself, if thats possible.

 

Then you want to use the same resolution as the DVD has, which is 720x480 (or 704x480, which is less common). That's the resolution all NTSC (North-American) DVD's run at. PAL DVD's are 720x576. Let your computer do the upscaling when it plays it back... they're quite good at that.

 

Sounds good, is there any explainaton for the "line" look that I see happening? When theres some action of fast motion, it lookes like half the lines in the fast moving area are playing. Not sure if it has anything to do with interlacing.

 

That sounds like a deinterlacing issue, or it could just be a failure of your video drivers. Might not be accelerating video right or something. Hard to tell. But when it only happens in fast-motion areas, it's a big hint that it's the deinterlacing.

 

ok, I'm pretty sure my video drivers are working, when ripping the deinterlacing is off, and there are options for custom, fast, slow, and slower, and recommendations on which I should choose? I apreciate the help too.

EDIT: I thnk I know what was going on, I was turning off the Anamorphic: Strict setting, and that was killing picture quality. I think, re-ripping a dvd to compare

 

Your best results will be to just rip the DVD to the hard drive. You can use the free portion of DVD Fab for that. You'll never get any better than what's on the DVD and if you re-encode to another format it'll only get worse.

 

...but the file will be a lot smaller!

 

My question is to get rid of the lines. At the moment, when theres any quick movement or action, the picture has lines in it, like somone ran a comb through it. Deinterlacing? Combing?

 

Horizontal lines? That's what deinterlacing does, it should get rid of those lines.

 

OK, I think I may have figured it out. I couldn't find the option to adjust that in Daniusoft Video Convertor ultimate, but I also have Xilisoft DVD Ripper Ultimate. Which does have the interlacing option. When I selected "Interpolate" it got rid of the lines. I tired Odd or even, don't remember, and the lines were still there. So I'm figuring Interpolate was what I was looking for? Thanks for the help, +1, It's been informative to say the least.

 

Yeah, but the OP asked:

So what's your point?
Additionally anything that can play DVDs will have a de-interlacer or two available...