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kjs862 said:
Maybe that's why my movies don't look too great:confused:

What I'm doing is is taking my avi file (there all roughly about 700mb) and dragging them into Visual Hub. Once in Visual Hub I select the iTunes option, check off H.264 encoding, and finally set the quality to "go nuts".

I'm I doing something wrong?:confused:
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Yeah you basically telling it to take an already pretty compressed file and by using go nuts is a waster because it can't make something out of nothing. You should be ripping the movie to a single .vob file and draging that into visualhub, or better yet handbrake and use the apple tv preset to maintain the DD 5.1 The movies will be in the 2-3 gb range, but they will be comparable to the DVD.
 
northy124 said:
5th time I've said this but these people either:
1. Rip the HDDVD/Blu-Rays themselves or
2. Download them from file sharing sites/forums.

Northy
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I notice most HD rips are converted to .mkv files, do you then convert those to mp4 since Itunes cannot play .mkv?
 
Scarpad said:
I notice most HD rips are converted to .mkv files, do you then convert those to mp4 since Itunes cannot play .mkv?
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a lot of people would, programs like visual hub/MPEG streamclip do that.

i use a handy script called movie2itunes. ( http://dettmer.maclab.org/movie2itunes.html )

all it pretty much does it makes itunes "believe" that it is playing a mp4/mov file.

EDIT: on 2nd thoughts, you might also need perian.
 
Scarpad said:
I notice most HD rips are converted to .mkv files, do you then convert those to mp4 since Itunes cannot play .mkv?
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I sometimes passthrough in QT Pro but to do that you need Perian so that the files open in QT (MKV's open in iTunes as standard so right click & change to open with QT, I have no idea why it opens with iTunes as it can't play them) but when passing through you lose the option to tag the files after:(. Many people convert with VisualHub which I personally think is bad as you lose alot of quality and what used to look smooth now looks not as smooth, it's fine to VB 1080p videos but not 720p (They lose the most quality & you can notice it more). Personally I stick with passthrough & just add artwork in iTunes still looks nice.

Oh if you have access to FCE you might be able to export the MKV to .mp4 without much of a quality loss (I'm trying it later with Weeds Season 3, Self ripped)

DoFoT9 said:
a lot of people would, programs like visual hub/MPEG streamclip do that.

i use a handy script called movie2itunes. ( http://dettmer.maclab.org/movie2itunes.html )

all it pretty much does it makes itunes "believe" that it is playing a mp4/mov file.

EDIT: on 2nd thoughts, you might also need perian.
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MPEG Streamclip isn't really best to use with MKV's I don't think personally. Movie2iTunes looks good I might try that later on today.
 
Scarpad said:
Yeah you basically telling it to take an already pretty compressed file and by using go nuts is a waster because it can't make something out of nothing. You should be ripping the movie to a single .vob file and draging that into visualhub, or better yet handbrake and use the apple tv preset to maintain the DD 5.1 The movies will be in the 2-3 gb range, but they will be comparable to the DVD.
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I'm starting off with an avi to begin with.
 
DoFoT9 said:
oh ok, never had any experience converting/playing with MPEG, i use VLC :)
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VLC that worse at converting for me anyways but we have our preferences.

kjs862 said:
I'm starting off with an avi to begin with.
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If starting with AVI keep doing what your doing so what worse quality than before who cares as long as you get to watch it, If this was another format I'd say something else but this is a case of Poo in, Poo out LoL
 
northy124 said:
If starting with AVI keep doing what your doing so what worse quality than before who cares as long as you get to watch it, If this was another format I'd say something else but this is a case of Poo in, Poo out LoL
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So basically the only way to get a decent quality movie into iTunes would be to get the vob and covert it into mpg or get a HD format and convert into mpg?
 
kjs862 said:
So basically the only way to get a decent quality movie into iTunes would be to get the vob and covert it into mpg or get a HD format and convert into mpg?
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You only lose a little quality with AVI's as they look crap anyways (And you wouldn't notice it most times) but yh if possible get the VOB or an MKV.
 
chme6583 said:
I've spent so much time on these movies, its ridiculous. All have ratings, descriptions, custom artwork, genre, actor and director. I need a life and more sleep.
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AND OMG IS THAT WORTH IT!

that is an amazing collection. sooo good of you to put ace ventura on, its gotta be the besterest movie ever.

you also have fast net :) lol
 
DoFoT9 said:
AND OMG IS THAT WORTH IT!

that is an amazing collection. sooo good of you to put ace ventura on, its gotta be the besterest movie ever.

you also have fast net :) lol
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Is that worth it? Probably not, but its cool. LOL
 
kjs862 said:
So basically the only way to get a decent quality movie into iTunes would be to get the vob and covert it into mpg or get a HD format and convert into mpg?
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The only way would be to ensure the best quality would be buy the disk and rip it yourself instead of infringing on copyrights and downloading the movie from the internet.

If you are going to be a pirate, you can't complain about the quality.
 
slu said:
The only way would be to ensure the best quality would be buy the disk and rip it yourself instead of infringing on copyrights and downloading the movie from the internet.

If you are going to be a pirate, you can't complain about the quality.
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You're still breaking the law when you rip DVDs that you own.... so you're not any different.

Although, I am a firm believer that if we pay for our DVDs, we should be able to copy them to whatever media device we want without breaking copy protection.
 
TheSpaz said:
You're still breaking the law when you rip DVDs that you own.... so you're not any different.

Although, I am a firm believer that if we pay for our DVDs, we should be able to copy them to whatever media device we want without breaking copy protection.
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I agree. This is why I'm a huge supporter of the new movies that are coming out with digital copies included with the DVD. I'm a sucker for a neat DVD case and special features, but I'm also in love with the beauty that is my Apple TV. It's always hard to decide which place to store my content.
 
I still haven't Meta tagged my movies, my collection continues to grow...

I already filled a 1 tb drive, now have a little 300 gig drive, when those fill to capacity, i will buy another 1 tb drive and keep the adventure going.

I also decided to RE-encode (from DVD) most of the videos to H.264, looks a lot better.

My Mac Pro gets 2 DVD's done an hour on average, I got about 80-100 DVD's just sitting on my desk on queue for rippin.

At this point I can't stop, as pointless as the project seems to some people, I gotta get my time and moneys worth with this Apple TV.

I'll post when my project is finished, it won't be pretty but you'll see how many videos and TV shows I have ripped.
 
I have 813 items in my TV show collection, 16 days worth of the stuff. And 95 films. Taking a picture wouldn't be all that useful ;)

But lets try anyways! I've ripped most of my DVDs and record a lot off EyeTV.

Only a few items left without year tags, TV shows with grouping by their channel too. No ratings or actors but all with ripped art from the shows intro. Faves include (all episodes of) Alan Partridge, League of Gentlemen, Spaced, Black Books, Green Wing, HIGNFY, Spooks, Red Dwarf, South Park, Family Guy, Futurama, Worst Week of my Life etc...
 

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newappleboy said:
I agree. This is why I'm a huge supporter of the new movies that are coming out with digital copies included with the DVD. I'm a sucker for a neat DVD case and special features, but I'm also in love with the beauty that is my Apple TV. It's always hard to decide which place to store my content.
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I like the idea, but again, the files do not have 5.1 or are Anamorphic. I want as close to dvd quality as possible, and that is still yet to be delivered by Apple or the studios in digital format. Apple is starting to deliver the new movies with the Anamorphic encodes, but not the 5.1.

This is an improvement nonetheless, and I agree its better than nothing.
 
I have had a weekend to sort and do some tagging on my itunes library this weekend, see attached pic i know its not a patch on some of the library's on here but it is heading in the right direction.
 

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pkoch1 said:
I sort by composer ;)
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I can't tell you how much I hate you. Seriously though, that's really cool. I really am jealous and I wish I had thought of it.

Also, to those of you who include the director, where do you include the director? Do you stick him or her in with the actors? What about the "Artist" field?

I plan on going through my movies while they are still manageable and redoing many of them. Now that I know how to add posters, seeing dvd covers makes me sick:) And seeing the stupid ones with the dvd's sticking out the side makes me wanna die.

I bet someone could make a pretty penny buying portable hard drive and transferring these immaculately and lovingly categorized collections for sale. Then again that would be illegal to sell it, I suppose.

I wonder what people would pay for a TB of movies....
 
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