Most blurays have about 30gb of content. This is usually a video
track encoded at 1080p resolution and often have multiple audio
tracks, some lossless at high bitrates.
You can re-encode the video to 720p and audio to flac or mp3. Then
your file size can drop to less than 10gb and without losing much
quality.
The data storage needed to keep a lot of bluray rips is why some of us
have several TB of disk space on our HTPC :)
BTW, "bluray DVD" is an oxymoron. It's like saying "buying a VHS DVD"
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Brian
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On 2010-04-03, at 4:16 PM, Winterlight <[email protected]>
wrote:
Ok, now that I have a HD TV and blu-ray player on the way, I started
looking at blu-ray DVDs which, surprisingly, are now priced not
much differently then regular DVDs.... but they hold 10 to 20 times
the data...correct?
You can download a SD DVD no problem, and typically SD downloads
have been re-incoded into something more mobile like mkv or mp4 with
little or no loss in quality. But that can't be true with blu-ray
can it? A ripped blu-ray must be 50 to 100GB ... right? How is the
quality if ripped to download, or put on a media box. Can it be
done in such a way to retain the original blu-ray quality? How does
this work?
thanks
w
