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iPod widescreen movies & new 5g iPod

I'm ripping all my widescreen DVDs at 560x240 and I have had no problems with frame rate, frame drops, screen ratio and screen stretching.

I have noticed that my iPod video will crop a 16:9 ripped video to 4:3 very nicley as long as the video does not exceed 240 pixels in height. Plus if you want to see the letterboxed version it is just a matter of flicking on the "Widescreen" option on, which looks great if you have it hooked up to a nice Plasma screen, not DVD quality but far better than any VCD or VHS video ;)

I'm using handbrake and I have found the absolute best quality vs size is around the 225mb per 40 minutes of DVD, if you have an iPod video and you don't have a copy of Handbrake you seriously don't know what you're missing. Download it :D

Now back to watching my freshly ripped copy of Underworld......
 
ezekielrage_99 said:
I'm ripping all my widescreen DVDs at 560x240 and I have had no problems with frame rate, frame drops, screen ratio and screen stretching.

I have noticed that my iPod video will crop a 16:9 ripped video to 4:3 very nicley as long as the video does not exceed 240 pixels in height. Plus if you want to see the letterboxed version it is just a matter of flicking on the "Widescreen" option on, which looks great if you have it hooked up to a nice Plasma screen, not DVD quality but far better than any VCD or VHS video ;)

I'm using handbrake and I have found the absolute best quality vs size is around the 225mb per 40 minutes of DVD, if you have an iPod video and you don't have a copy of Handbrake you seriously don't know what you're missing. Download it :D

Now back to watching my freshly ripped copy of Underworld......
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because you rip it at such a big width (560), I am assuming you rip it as an mpeg4 instead of h.264?
 
I do my encodes as a mpeg 4, the file size is large but it gives me the ability to watch it on my TV is pretty decent quality, my Pocket PC, and the 5G. Also I find that because Apple limited AVC to 768kbps, there's still alot of noticible Macroblocking at that bitrate that I can see even on the 5G, I don't get that on Mpeg 4 when I use a higher BR. I Encode my 4:3 material at 544x416 and my Widescreen material at either 624x352 or 720x304 depending on the originals aspect ratio.
 
boiee said:
because you rip it at such a big width (560), I am assuming you rip it as an mpeg4 instead of h.264?
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Yeah MPEG4 all the way, H.264 is great quality but it's kind of slow and can be big.... plus the iPod doesnt seem to like the 16:9 H.264 ripped DVDs as much, I get a fair bit of screen tearing.

On average with Handbrake I can rip a 2 hour DVD into a 560x240 in FFMpeg and the final size is around the 700MB to 850MB which is a very nice looking MP4 file. Plus with the higher quality it does look a whole lot better on a TV if you want to do that.
 
i'm posting here cause i didn't want to start a new thread, but where the tread on the steps to rip a dvd and to rip a dvd with TV shows...:confused:
i searched for almost an hour now and i'm coming up short...:eek:
 
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