Best Format

[amitroy5]

Hello. I am tired of the XVID prolems in the Eva8000 and I decided to convert all my media into one format. What is the best codec for video to be in? Does anyone know of any program with does batch processing, so I can set it and forget it? Thanks.

[bomberjim]

Well, I've never had any trouble with anything in DVD format. Obviously this takes more space than XVID or DIVX. I know that GUI4FFMPEG, available at videohelp.com does batch conversions. I'm sure many others do as well.

Jim L

[mickhames]

I have just come across this today but have not tried it, it states that it does do batch processing - http://www.aimonesoft.com/video-converter.html

[crs2265]

Originally Posted by amitroy5

Hello. I am tired of the XVID prolems in the Eva8000 and I decided to convert all my media into one format. What is the best codec for video to be in? Does anyone know of any program with does batch processing, so I can set it and forget it? Thanks.

What problems are you having with xVid files? All my Video files are pretty much in xVid and it has performed flawlessly for me.

I guess it would help if you can tell me what firmware you are using with the EVA and what version of the xvid codec your files are in...

[piasano20]

I've converted all mine to .iso. Have had o problems and no quality loss.
For xvids that I have to convert back I usu AVS media converter to go to dvd format and then dvd shrink to create the iso (w/ no compession turned on.)

I was using the vob format but didn't like the tag support, iso was much better.

[bits]

Originally Posted by piasano20

I've converted all mine to .iso. Have had o problems and no quality loss.
For xvids that I have to convert back I usu AVS media converter to go to dvd format and then dvd shrink to create the iso (w/ no compession turned on.)

I was using the vob format but didn't like the tag support, iso was much better.

ISO is an image of a disc, it is not a video or audio format and not even a container when talking audio video. You are most likely just creating a dvd-v image. Eg using VOB's.
VOB is a container for mpeg2 video and dvd-v type audio formats(mpeg audio/ac3/dts. No compression turned on in dvd shrink is misleading. MPEG 2 is lossy to begin with and you would have suffered some quality loss. VOB limits mpeg2 resolution, anything exceeding standard pal or ntsc would need to be downscaled. Anything widescreen would be put into 4:3 with the 16:9 flag set.

If you are happy with the results, perfect! But I believe you should be aware that the conversion was completely lossy, you should nt switch back and fourth between lossy formats if you care for the quality.

Hopefully that makes it clearer for other users before they go "damaging" their own collection unknowingly.

[piasano20]

I'm quite aware what an ISO is. And it IS AN ISO that is getting generated.

I'm doing the exact same thing with the ISO as accessing the VIDEO_TS directly (which also works fine.)

So are you saying doing a full dvd rip from decryptor (or similar programs) puts in a quality loss? So basically there is no way to get an exact image of your dvd?

I'm not using shrink to compress, just to create the ISO. Or I use Nero. Both produce the exact same size file.

If you have some kind of all mighty wisdom get on your soap box and share.

What is the best method to create an exact image of your DVD to be played with the EVA? So that there will be no debate and and you can prevent people from "damaging" their collections.

[bits]

Originally Posted by piasano20

So are you saying doing a full dvd rip from decryptor (or similar programs) puts in a quality loss? So basically there is no way to get an exact image of your dvd?

Sorry, my mistake. I wasn't aware they source was a dvd to begin with. I figured seems as this thread is about XVID and not DVD-V I automatically assumed you were talking about converting XVID to DVD-V. That after all would follow the thread topic. Had this thread actually been about ripping DVD-V I would have read your post correctly.

[amitroy5]

My primary problem is that XVID is very choppy, while DIVX plays perfectly.