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Easiest program to convert DVD for plex?
can someone please advise the easisets programe to convert dvd for plex as havng major issues with Plex seeing the covenrted files.
I kno there is a particular file name format that plex requires b...
I suggest 128 kbs for AAC mixdown, not 96.
For Video, a lot depends on how small you need the MP4 to be. With Handbrake, perhaps just start with the SuperHQ 480p30 surround preset (576p25 for PAL). That should look good, though it might result in a bigger file than you need.
DVD's in general you can pack down quite a bit with Handbreak. Because you're going from a older Mpeg 2 compression format to Mpeg 4 compression. You'll be surprised how much space you can save using Handbreak. You can rip a bunch of DVD's pretty quickly uisng MakeMKV, and then batch them all using Handbrake when you're not using your computer like late night and while you're at work. Then Rip a bunch more and repeat.
JBDragon1 wrote:
DVD's in general you can pack down quite a bit with Handbreak. Because you're going from a older Mpeg 2 compression format to Mpeg 4 compression. You'll be surprised how much space you can save using Handbreak.
Yes. And even the HQ setting preset will give you a much smaller size than the original. Today you'd be using H.264 compresson (which is better then MPEG-4).
H.264 is MPEG-4. Now if you're talking about H.265 that's a differnt story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding
If course you need to be able to play a H.265 file. Does it work with PLEX and the PLEX client you're going to be streaming to?
JBDragon1 wrote:
H.264 is MPEG-4. Now if you're talking about H.265 that's a differnt story.
"MPEG-4" video is usually considered to be ISO/IEC 14496-2. Technically it is similar to H.263. It has about the same visual quality at perhaps 80% of the bit rate of the MPEG-2 used in DVDs.
H.264 (called AVC by MPEG folks) is ISO/IEC 14496-10 (technically part of the MPEG family system, but very different from the older MPEG-4 video). H.264 is about 2x more effcient than the MPEG-2 that is used in DVDs - same quality at half the bitrate.
HEVC/H.265 is part of a newer system called MPEG-H and is significantly better than H.264, especially for UHD content. The goal was the same subjective quality at 1/2 the bitrate of H.264, which was achieved for "entertainment" test sequences - see Table VII here: http://iphome.hhi.de/wiegand/assets/pdfs/2012_12_IEEE-HEVC-Performance.pdf If you look at the table closely, you'll see that the efficiency is higher for HD/UHD content than SD content.
JBDragon1 wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding If course you need to be able to play a H.265 file. Does it work with PLEX and the PLEX client you're going to be streaming to?
The important thing to remember here is that all these codecs are visually transparent if you use appropropriate bitrates.
H.265 adoption has been stalled (due to patent licensing terms) - while H.264/AVC is supported by pretty much anything. The only reason to use H.265 is because you want lower bitrates/smaller file sizes. If your players all support it, then that's great. But I think for most people that's simply not the case, so generally it's safer to go with H.264.
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