Yeah it sure does. I backed up a lot of my personal DVD collection using x264 to bring to Japan with me. Quality is nice, but damn is it processor intensive to encode. I've been watching the Dirac codec with interest lately.
my most impressive encoding was from a dv tape i recorded of my city. i think i managed to encode it in 640x480 with audio at only 320kbs and it looked GREAT even fullscreen!
What programs do you guys recommend so that I can encode my DVDs into h.264? I am putting together a small HTPC...
i love megui/mencoder. it has a lot of predefined profiles. if you need to deinterlace/apply filters and such you might prefer other programs, but you can do everything with megui. it also auto update itself. others are ripbot, and realanime, ffenc... it's up to your tastes in short.
it looks like crap . but seriously guys, if its for a htpc... just leave em in mpeg2 hdd are so cheap nowadays... unless it's an hd movie... then just don't bother and download a nice h264 rip with dts .
Handbrake its windows,linux and mac compatable best off all its free and is wonderfully i use it for everything
I've been using handbrake and was suprised it only took half an hour to encode Clerks. E8400 Core 2 rocks. I wish I could do uncompressed but the 360 won't play those and thats how I stream my movies to my HDTV.
I love handbrake. I use it on OSX for my iPod encoding, MP4 results are great never tried H.264, might give it a go...
Hmm.. perhaps you all can be of help for my predicament here. I recently purchased a WD TV HD http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=572 which allows me to play almost any video or audio format. (at least the good ones like h264 and FLAC which need more support as of late) I have a stack of movies and anime on DVD that I'd like to convert over to H.264 in an MKV container with multiple audio and subtitle streams. I've even heard of chapter support for MKVs as well, although I don't believe it's as easy as ripping and remuxing.. Surely someone has had better experience with all this -- what should I do and use? I already have SUPER, megui (don't know what avisynth is), and mediacoder. Any help is greatly appreciated. :nod:
Of all the trailers you could have picked why the half blood prince... ...and why did Dumbledore have a case of glass dildos?
For those on linux, try OGMrip. Don't let the name fool you, it handles many codecs and containers. I use it for all my DVD -> x264 stuff.
