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Producing high quality/small size video from Blu-ray rip?

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CheesyTators

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I am new to Blu-ray and HD video encoding/rebuilding etc.... I noticed Apple's 1080p movies via iTunes look outstanding and they are relatively small (3-6GB per 2 hour movie.) Is it possible for me to achieve the same result with Handbrake and an existing Blu-ray I have ripped to my hard drive? What settings would I need to use? Is this even possible or does Apple use super secret squirrel software and encoding technology?

Thanks for the help.
 
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Menneisyys2

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Jun 7, 2011
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CheesyTators said:
I am new to Blu-ray and HD video encoding/rebuilding etc.... I noticed Apple's 1080p movies via iTunes look outstanding and they are relatively small (3-6GB per 2 hour movie.) Is it possible for me to achieve the same result with Handbrake and an existing Blu-ray I have ripped to my hard drive? What settings would I need to use? Is this even possible or does Apple use super secret squirrel software and encoding technology?

Thanks for the help.
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Well, I certainly wouldn't call iTunes videos "outstanding" - they certainly exhibit all the symptoms of too high a compression rate: banding, compression artefacts etc. (See https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1340463/ for an excellent comparison.) Go for significantly less compression with HandBrake - around 10 Mbps bitrate for 1080p.

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MisterMe said:
Blu-ray is all copy-protected.
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MakeMKV rips it nonetheless and it's legal in most countries.
 
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