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raldo:
Does MC's DVD ripping feature create an exact copy of the DVD on disk?

And: I'd really appreciate if someone could recommend software for reencoding, compressing, and splitting the DVD video?

For example, I have to make a decision on the end result video format: can I decide on using mkv with h264 content?

6233638:
MakeMKV is the software I'd recommend using for this.
Media Center will rip the directory structure to a folder instead of muxing to a single file.

astromo:

--- Quote from: 6233638 on August 12, 2014, 12:17:08 pm ---MakeMKV is the software I'd recommend using for this.
Media Center will rip the directory structure to a folder instead of muxing to a single file.

--- End quote ---

... and mkvtoolnix and megui / mkvmerge are what I use for chapter, audio stream and subtitle manipulation (former) and compression (latter).

raldo:

(1) Ripping


--- Quote from: 6233638 on August 12, 2014, 12:17:08 pm ---MakeMKV is the software I'd recommend using for this.
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--- End quote ---

I'm ripping homevideos transferred from VHS to DVD using an LG RC-7300 player.

When importing the video in Handbrake, there seems to be two titles of equal length. Ripping one title gives only half the movie.

Thanks for the tip. MakeMKV doesn't have this issue and rips to one file that contains all video/audio.

(2) Reencoding.

Am I correct to understand that MakeMkv simply changes the container from DVD to MKV? And thus doesn't reencode?
The files are quite big.

Would you recommend using Handbrake for reencoding to h264?


--- Quote from: astromo on August 12, 2014, 03:21:42 pm ---... and mkvtoolnix and megui / mkvmerge are what I use for chapter, audio stream and subtitle manipulation (former) and compression (latter).

--- End quote ---

Skimming the docs at https://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/docs.html doesn't give me the impression that any of the applications in the MkvToolnox package do reencoding?

(3) Editing

I need to split the files using a visual editor. What can you recommend here?

I've looked at Solveig Video splitter Solveig Video splitter. This costs $50.

6233638:
Glad to hear that MakeMKV worked for you.
It can convert audio (by default it does not) but will not re-encode video. It's kept as the original quality.
 
I don't really recommend converting DVDs from MPEG2 to H264, as it will result in a loss of quality.
Handbrake is fine for this task.
 
 
I'm not sure about a good/inexpensive visual editor for video.

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