Luke Sharkey wrote: > Hello! > > >Has it occurred to you that there is simply nothing more > >to encode than that 930Mb? Twelve Angry Men is a courtroom > >drama with practically no action... Where do you expect the > >bits to go? > > What are you talking about?? This is a standard size 5GB dvd (yes, *even > though* its black and white!). Of course there's more to encode than > 930Mb. The vob files I ripped were in total ~5GB. Besides, the fact that > it's b&w is totally irrelevant. I wish I'd never mentioned it, as I also > pointed out, I've had exactly the same problem with other dvds I've tried > _including colour and high-action movies_. Therefore the fact that this > particular film is b&w is immaterial to the problem.
Absolutely right, it's immaterial. If it were color and had lots of action, it *might* come out as big as 1.8 Gb. If a dvd is encoded at a wasteful and meaningless average bitrate of 5000 Mbits/s by adding white noise, you are going to have to add white noise to your encode to get the bitate up to that level. I will not explain the details (which I understand very imperfectly anyway) to avoid a discussion here that should be a wiki page. If you want to really amaze yourself, reencode the 2xdvd9 version of Seven Swords. The fact that you formerly managed to make some bogus encodes that were huge is irrelevant.
