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41 sats \ 6 replies \ @BeeRye OP 13 Jul \ parent \ on: Trying out Handbrake for ripping DVDs tech
i did some testing to try and determine if it is my hardware, and I dont believe so. I can run DVDs on other software like VLC just fine using the external DVD rom. And then I downloaded handbrake onto my windows computer, which I had been using Leawo for ripping DVDs and I am running into the same poor quality results on there too. So, I believe it is a settings issue in handbrake, so I appreciate any insight you can provide on that front :) Here are screenshots below let me know what you think could be tweaked (it's all default settings)
Off the bat I'll say I never had the best results with the default setting presets, especially the "fast" ones.
If this is a casual project, just try another default preset first.
Try any of these. Keep in mind it can make your machine (especially a laptop) work at 100% CPU for a while. The higher the quality the longer it will take. You can run one of these and if it's satisfactory, then all is well.
Of course, if you want to optimize for quality and filesize, without ripping the same DVD multiple times, one option is to crop a 1-2minute clip out of the video to test on, and try processing it using different settings to compare before running it on the full DVD.
These are still sort of "one-size-fits-enough" kind of presets. If you want optimal results, it depends on your use case and expectations, how many DVDs you gotta go through and whether they're all somewhat of a similar format.
If you want to tweak further... stay tuned because I started writing way too much text for a reply like this so I'll likely make a quick guide its own post soon :P
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Thanks for the reply! Fiddled around with previewing using these other settings...the issue persists unfortunately 😞
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the quality is just fine when playing from VLC directly on the disk. Its like static-y and blurry...similar to a poor quality buffering when streaming a video online.
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Can you try something real quick. Instead of handbrake, let's try ffmpeg to do mostly the same thing:
ffmpeg -i VOB_FILE_ON_YOUR_DVD.VOB -map 0:v:0 -map 0:a:0 -c:v libx264 -crf 18 -preset slower -tune film -profile:v main -x264opts force-cfr=1 -r ntsc -c:a copy OUTPUT_FILENAME.mp4 Replacing the vob file path and output filename with your own, of course. If you're on linux the path to the VOB file will be something like this if mounted normally
/media/BeeRye/STAR_WARS_DVD/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB reply
Thank you for the reply, havent had time to try this but will soon.