DVD ripping tips/info

[YouKo.AnDy]

hey

i'm ripping my dvd's with freemake video converter output .mkv original resolition (mnemosyne 1024x576)

is there a way to improve the video quality ? it doesn't look to good

http://i.minus.com/iwNOHOdg92HsE.jpg snapshot with mpc-hc 1 pass no subs (as they looked terrible)

http://i.minus.com/iZt5DO5usaWjB.jpg 2 pass

not seeing any improvement...

any where i can check what subs are better dvdr2 or fansub so i can add them with mkvmerge

with mkvmerge after muxing(or what it's called) i don't have a thumbnail any way to fix this ?

btw the dvd's that i have: mnemosyne, eureka seven, ouran, claymore, ghost in the shell 1+2, d.gray-man (51 elp s1+s2)

if you guy's know witch subs are better and where to get them, that would really help...

thank you


PS: sorry for the double post, delete the old one...

[Temuthril]

PAL DVDs (I'm assuming because the screenshots are 1024x576) aren't really a good source material in general.

Crop the black borders away, they're useless.

[Slysoft]

afaik multi pass doesn't really improve quality per se, but lets you have the same quality with a lower filesize. And that looks about the same as most dvd rips I have so I'd say that's the most you're going to get.

[YouKo.AnDy]

anything else i can do to improve the quality ? or another software ?

[megido-rev.M]

Use a different encoding e.g.h264, perhaps?

[YouKo.AnDy]

that's what i'm using, alternative (to mkv) is mpeg4

[megido-rev.M]

What does the original quality look like?

[YouKo.AnDy]

http://i.minus.com/irbKlj5lcmIsg.jpg for some reason it came out like this...

played the vob with wmp-hc

did see a improvement in my rip from the original thou...

and took a better look at my one pass and two pass rips... looks like one pass is better

for sound should i make it flac ? so i don't lose any quality ?

don't really care for disk space

[megido-rev.M]

Yeah, sure. But your main issue is the video.

It almost looks like you encode stretched the vob screenshot. Is that right? Because if it is, that would explain the quality...

[YouKo.AnDy]

did a rip with the original resolution, even worse .....

how about sound witch should i use ? mp3 aac ac3 flac

on another note, wanted to rip both dvd's and selected the 43 min titles from both ended up with 7 eps instead of 6 do i have to pick the title with 2 hours and cut it ?

on dvd 1 of claymore i have only one title with 22 mins and 2 with 2 hours, seems like i have to manually cut every ep

should i cut it with freemake wideo converter ? or can you recommend another witch i can also crop thee video (the useless black bar )

thank you so far

[megido-rev.M]

Can't really help with the converter choice, unfortunately: I rarely use them.

For the sound format, just go with AC3 since you're using DVD source anyway. If it means anything, AAC was designed to replace MP3 of all things.

[YouKo.AnDy]

did a little research and found that the ripper that i use is at the bottom of the food chain switching to handbrake going to need to do some learning and experimenting with this one...

[megido-rev.M]

Well, it's good to discern the bad progs eventually lol.