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[Scarpad]

^ TV Shows 306 episodes

^ 59 Movies

All movies and tv shows ripped at 2000 kbps in hanbrake into straight up .mp4.
Been holding out on the ATV because I'm not sure if I will be able to stream my movies from my computer about 1.75gb on average at 2000kbps over my wireless super g network which is rated at 108mbps.

Does any one have any insight about streaming over a G network and would care to put in their two cents on the subject.

I stream all my content and the only time I ever get a hiccup is when my wife is using the Microwave, otherwise its smooth no problems

 

[Scarpad]

Don't forget you are going to want to back up that stuff. So DOUBLE your storage needs!

Or Back up onto DVD, which is what I do, with the cost of Media today, pretty cheap.

 

[DoFoT9]

I stream all my content and the only time I ever get a hiccup is when my wife is using the Microwave, otherwise its smooth no problems

lol id say thats a frequency issue wouldnt you?

Or Back up onto DVD, which is what I do, with the cost of Media today, pretty cheap.

i had thought about that. 200gb of movies is pretty large to backup in my case. sure its cheap but it will take sooo much time to do them all. looking at 40DVD's at least

^ TV Shows 306 episodes

i would love those tv shows. so jealous.

 

[liketom]

Or Back up onto DVD, which is what I do, with the cost of Media today, pretty cheap.

but for collections of over 500 movies - at around 2gb per movie - thats either 250 DVD's or 125 Dual Layer DVD's for backup

no thanks i'd rather have everything on HDD's and get rid of the unsightly mess of a DVD pile that's in my living room.

 

[Scarpad]

lol id say thats a frequency issue wouldnt you?



i had thought about that. 200gb of movies is pretty large to backup in my case. sure its cheap but it will take sooo much time to do them all. looking at 40DVD's at least



i would love those tv shows. so jealous.

Absolutely a Freq issue, I know it can be resolved with N but waiting for that to shake out a bit before I bite the bullet and get a new router.

 

[DoFoT9]

but for collections of over 500 movies - at around 2gb per movie - thats either 250 DVD's or 125 Dual Layer DVD's for backup

no thanks i'd rather have everything on HDD's and get rid of the unsightly mess of a DVD pile that's in my living room.

tru that. thers always the little voice in my head saying that i should have backups. maybe once BR is a bit cheaper.

Absolutely a Freq issue, I know it can be resolved with N but waiting for that to shake out a bit before I bite the bullet and get a new router.

yup. would the N router fix that? i wonder what the frequency range of the microwave is lol

 

[abrooks]

yup. would the N router fix that? i wonder what the frequency range of the microwave is lol

Microwaves are around 2.45GHz (some vary obviously) which is the frequency of 802.11b/g/n. 802.11n can work over the 5GHz range if you're having issues.

If things like portable phones and microwaves are interfering it might be worth adjusting the channel.

 

[DoFoT9]

Microwaves are around 2.45GHz (some vary obviously) which is the frequency of 802.11b/g/n. 802.11n can work over the 5GHz range if you're having issues.

If things like portable phones and microwaves are interfering it might be worth adjusting the channel.

aahh ok tru that. yea dad bought a 5ghz phone, we use the g/n combination in the 2-3ghz area, so no interfearence there. (cant utilize full n speeds yet)

 

[swimfan]

Here's my collection so far. About to cross the 600 movie barrier. I've tried to average around 2gb's a movie. I do 2500-3500 kbps on my favorite movies and 1500-2000 kbps for comedies, etc. MetaX tagged almost everything. Have to say the AppleTV wasn't made for us DVD rippers out there. It's a great system for the money, but i've delt with bugs and stuttering video from day one. Syncing seems to fix most problems, but that's exactly what I don't want to have to do. I like being able to sit there and scroll through and spontaneously pick something. I've got about another 100 dvd's or so to rip from my personal collection and I'll finally be done. Been at it for about six months. Takes me 2-3 hours per movie with handbrake and my macbook pro. She's been a trooper though.

 

[iTeen]

Here's my collection so far. About to cross the 600 movie barrier. I've tried to average around 2gb's a movie. I do 2500-3500 kbps on my favorite movies and 1500-2000 kbps for comedies, etc. MetaX tagged almost everything. Have to say the AppleTV wasn't made for us DVD rippers out there. It's a great system for the money, but i've delt with bugs and stuttering video from day one. Syncing seems to fix most problems, but that's exactly what I don't want to have to do. I like being able to sit there and scroll through and spontaneously pick something. I've got about another 100 dvd's or so to rip from my personal collection and I'll finally be done. Been at it for about six months. Takes me 2-3 hours per movie with handbrake and my macbook pro. She's been a trooper though.

HOLY S**T!!
wow, what i would pay for a collection like that.....
Nice.

 

[DoFoT9]

Here's my collection so far. About to cross the 600 movie barrier. I've tried to average around 2gb's a movie. I do 2500-3500 kbps on my favorite movies and 1500-2000 kbps for comedies, etc. MetaX tagged almost everything. Have to say the AppleTV wasn't made for us DVD rippers out there. It's a great system for the money, but i've delt with bugs and stuttering video from day one. Syncing seems to fix most problems, but that's exactly what I don't want to have to do. I like being able to sit there and scroll through and spontaneously pick something. I've got about another 100 dvd's or so to rip from my personal collection and I'll finally be done. Been at it for about six months. Takes me 2-3 hours per movie with handbrake and my macbook pro. She's been a trooper though.

man that is one awsome collection! i would like to see the quality of those rips.im really jealous lol. how do you use hard drive space? do you have a number of hard drives or somesort of NAS or anything?

nice dude keep it going just make sure u have them backed up

 

[swimfan]

man that is one awsome collection! i would like to see the quality of those rips.im really jealous lol. how do you use hard drive space? do you have a number of hard drives or somesort of NAS or anything?

nice dude keep it going just make sure u have them backed up

i just keep buying those western digital 500gb USB drives from costco. it fits about 230 movies on each. i'd really like to have all the movies on one drive though. i'll be purchasing 2 2tb drives when they come down in price so i always have a backup. 2tb should be enough for what i'll use it for. i'm switching to blu ray and plan on buying new releases that way. it's interesting the whole quality thing. i was such a stickler for a good transfer, but having been spoiled with blu ray, even the best dvd's don't even come close. i remember watching half of children of men on dvd and then the other half on hd dvd. it was an incredible difference. that said, movies ripped around 3000 kbps look damn close to the original dvd. enough so that friends have absolutely no idea the picture has been altered in any way. a quick tip i learned a little while ago. rip a bunch of dvd's in with mactheripper (about 15 mins a dvd) and then que them up at night with handbrake. another thing i'd say is to just rip everything in at 2500 kbps. hd space is cheaper everyday and there's no reason to knock the quality down that much to save a couple hundred megs. and, yes. i do have everything backed up.

 

[DoFoT9]

i just keep buying those western digital 500gb USB drives from costco. it fits about 230 movies on each. i'd really like to have all the movies on one drive though. i'll be purchasing 2 2tb drives when they come down in price so i always have a backup. 2tb should be enough for what i'll use it for. i'm switching to blu ray and plan on buying new releases that way. it's interesting the whole quality thing. i was such a stickler for a good transfer, but having been spoiled with blu ray, even the best dvd's don't even come close. i remember watching half of children of men on dvd and then the other half on hd dvd. it was an incredible difference. that said, movies ripped around 3000 kbps look damn close to the original dvd. enough so that friends have absolutely no idea the picture has been altered in any way. a quick tip i learned a little while ago. rip a bunch of dvd's in with mactheripper (about 15 mins a dvd) and then que them up at night with handbrake. another thing i'd say is to just rip everything in at 2500 kbps. hd space is cheaper everyday and there's no reason to knock the quality down that much to save a couple hundred megs. and, yes. i do have everything backed up.

aaahh ok i see thats fair enough, those 500gb drives are pretty darn sturdy however it would be heeps better if they were FW400/FW800 but what can you do?

yea i was thinking of starting to archive my movies (probs only about 100), but then i thought that BluRay is right around the corner, and its going to get mighty cheap soon...so why bother with DVD's quality when i can get better?? so im gonna wait maybe a year or 2 and then start my archive (1tb drives will be a heck of a lot cheaper aswell ).

i spose that the BR movies will need to be encoded at some crazy thing, probably 15000kbps lol. so like im expecting about 7gb-10gb per movie. thats ok, 100movies per tb seems pretty darn good.

 

[rd2008]

Here is my collection, I am going to give the movies a break and focus on getting my TV shows updated.

 

[DoFoT9]

Here is my collection, I am going to give the movies a break and focus on getting my TV shows updated.

wooow soo good, how big are your BluRay rips???

 

[northy124]

I'm Guessing His Rips Are Between 2Gb And 50Gb Depending Where/How He Downloaded/Ripped Them.

What Quality Do You Go For I'm More 720p As A Space Saver Plus 1080p i Can't Really Tell The Difference Unless I'm Right Upto The Screen (13 inch MacBook SR)

 

[rd2008]

My blu-ray and HD rips/converts are usually between 4 and 5 GB depending on the length of the movie. For my DVD rips I set the bitrate at 2500 in HB and for the HD movies I usually set it at 4500, this way I can add the audio and stay below ATV's 5000 limit (although it is a soft limit, I have tested HD a little bit higher and it worked fine).

Also I have not used VisualHub for any of my conversion, instead I use a combination of MeGUI (and it's tools) on my Windows XP machine (Quad Core 2.4, 2 GB RAM) and ffmpeg/x264 on my Mac Pro (dual Quad 2.8, 2 GB RAM). On a side note I seriously think that I am in love with my Mac Pro. When converting the DVDs it gets somewhere around 220 fps on the first pass and around 150 fps on the second pass, the determining factor here is the size of the frames that are being output by the DVD. All of mine are widescreen anamorphic and range between 800x360 (serious rounding on my part) and 1024x480 (again serious rounding). The only problem I have right now is that when converting certain files the audio and video are slightly out of sync with the audio being quicker than the video. I have been working on it for about a week now and going to be posting to a thread I saw on here. If anyone has any ideas please let me know.

Northy,

I usually stick to 720p because of ATV, however personally I prefer it as like you I can't tell the difference either and my 50" plasma's native is 720p. In fact my PS3 which I use for playing blu-ray is set at 720p also.

Currently I have a 750GB HDD which I will be getting another so that I can have it mirrored. For space saving what I do is be a bit more picky about which movies I want to keep in HD. My reasons are that HDD price per GB is constantly falling so I can always upgrade drives and move them later. Most important for me right now is getting them mirrored.

RD.

 

[northy124]

1080p Is Useless As Most People Either Don't Have A Full HD TV Set (Can't Afford It, Bought A HDTV When It First Came Out Etc Etc.....) Nice To See Someone Else Also 720p Person LoL.

Do You Know How To Compress A 13GB 1080p (Only Version I Could Find) Movie In Windows I Can't Find A Decent Guide Telling Me All The Software I Need. So Any Pointers Would Be Greatly Appreciated

Northy

 

[NightStorm]

1080p Is Useless As Most People Either Don't Have A Full HD TV Set (Can't Afford It, Bought A HDTV When It First Came Out Etc Etc.....) Nice To See Someone Else Also 720p Person LoL.

Do You Know How To Compress A 13GB 1080p (Only Version I Could Find) Movie In Windows I Can't Find A Decent Guide Telling Me All The Software I Need. So Any Pointers Would Be Greatly Appreciated

Northy

Do you really need to ask this in this thread? It has nothing to do with the original topic.

 

[northy124]

rd2008 Sent Me A Pm So It Sorted Now.

 

[ceehjayem]

I have the Title, Movie Poster, Year of Movie, and the company that produced the film. I'd like to have Apple put a prompt for Actors in the movie other than having to improvise the fields.

 

[swimfan]

about to cross the 800 mark going strong. i've since switched from 2500kbps to 1500kbps 2-pass with DD5.1 passthrough. the quality difference isn't as much as i thought it would be and the file sizes are much more reasonable.

 

[Scarpad]

about to cross the 800 mark going strong. i've since switched from 2500kbps to 1500kbps 2-pass with DD5.1 passthrough. the quality difference isn't as much as i thought it would be and the file sizes are much more reasonable.

Have you done this across the board? Or are there certain Movies you still do at 2500 Kbps? I do alot of Oldies at 1500, but I find Something like Raiders of the Lost ark would have too much fast action to do at that low of a bitrate. Also are using the Apple TV Preset in Handbrake or the Ipod Hi Rez for the 1500 rips? You also say you are using 5.1 passthru so are you foregoing AAC? If you play those thru Itunes on the PC do you get a Mixdown or no sound at all?

 

[omni]

about to cross the 800 mark going strong. i've since switched from 2500kbps to 1500kbps 2-pass with DD5.1 passthrough. the quality difference isn't as much as i thought it would be and the file sizes are much more reasonable.

Just curious what size screen are you watching and what the file size comparisons are.

 

[Krevnik]

Just curious what size screen are you watching and what the file size comparisons are.

I also have been using 1500Kbps 2-pass for my ATV rips using anamorphic (XXX by 480), and H.264. The big thing is that after a certain point, you get diminishing returns on encodes. While a 2.5Mbps H.264 encode looks pretty darn good, a 1.5Mbps H.264 encode looks almost as good, and you save a good 30% on the file size (audio bitrate being the same).

Even on my 42-inch 1080p display, the video looks good enough that I don't mind the artifacts it introduces, as they are pretty minimal. Now, the nuts who encode everything in 1300kbps XviD from DVD are another story, you give up way too much detail, IMO. Heck, if I was using XviD, I would probably keep to around 2Mbps for decent detail.