[Nubben]

Hi,

I have a couple of .VOB files (about 4-6 Gigs each) which I would like to compress and burn onto a DVD 4.7GB. I purchased the above app but was very disappointed in the picture quality. I tried a few and cancelled the compression after a while just to ckeck the quality and it was VERY blocky. I sued the settings:

DivX encoder
MPEG III audio
1024 screen width
Excellent video quality
God audio quality
Optimized for 4.7GB DVD

Which resolution is enough to be able to later watch it on a standard DVD player and on a TV screen? Basically I want the same screen size just compressed. I even tried Tomb Raider which is 4.2GB and converted it and it still looked very blocky!

Can someone help me please? Otehrwise I may have bought £20 worth of useless app.

Thanks in advance.

Nubben

[Uncle Skeleton]

Originally posted by Nubben:
I may have bought £20 worth of useless app.

well I certainly won't argue with that

anyway, you're looking in the wrong place. aviray and any other product that mentions "ffmpeg" (besides maybe ffmpegX) compresses movies for use as computer files. if you want the result to play on a DVD player you have to make MPEG-2 files. if you're already starting with DVD-source files, just burn them straight back to DVD (decrypt to a disk image instead of to VOB files). If it's then too big, use DVD2One or DVDRemaster to reduce the size (these are the only apps that do it by removing arguably redundant data instead of by decompressing the whole movie and recompressing again).

also, the reason your result was so bad was because you gave too high a resolution. DVDs are only 720 pixels wide to start with; you don't want to make the encoder invent more pixels and then try to compress and preserve them.

[Nubben]

Thanks US,

The problem is that I only have the VOB files (1 for each movie) so I cannot re-rip them. That was the reason I got DivXRay to begin with.

Is there any way I can just brun the VOB file back to a blank DVD? That would make life easier for sure...

Thanks again.

Nubben