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Post #104187

Author
MeBeJedi
Parent topic
Got the LD rips - Now How Do I Make Them Work?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/104187/action/topic#104187
Date created
5-May-2005, 2:03 PM
"I do know that MPEG4 will exceed the quality of DVD (mpeg2), given the same amount of space. I've seen HDTV-quality vids encoded in MPEG4 standard that are absolutely gorgeous."

To add to what DVD-BOY said, here you are talking about an MPEG4 created from a master of phenomenal quality, but what you have been considering with these torrents is making a more compressed version of an already compressed version from a composite master that is well below DVD quality. An MPEG4 rip of these torrents will not improve the quality. That simply isn't possible with lossy compression. If you want to watch these torrents on your hard drive without using too much space, then the MPEG4 is a fine alternative, but if you want to watch these on a DVD player, there's simply no reason to recompress them, since they will fit on a DVD as is.

As much as I love all these different versions, you are trying to use MPEG4 to create a purse out of a pig's ear.

Now, if one of these people were to give you their AVI master to make the MPEG4 version......