I don't have an iPhone nor a video iPod. All my movies are just for TV use only. So ripping them at full anamorphic resolution is key for me. You can rip them at what you want as long as it looks good to you. I personally think 640 looks horrible on an HDTV because it's a small video stretched up to a large one.
I don't know if the iPods and iPhone can play a full sized video. And if it can, the file would take up too much space for what you'd lose anyway. I'd just assume re-rip the movie or show again at iPod/iPhone size when you decide to go out and delete it later. An on-the-fly thing. That way you get your TV version looking good and your iPod version optimized.
For animation I use what looks good.
For an example, South Park movie I ripped at 1000KBPs and it ends up at less than 700MB but looks almost perfect. So there's no real reason to go higher.
But on TV shows like Futurama and Simpsons I used 1500 or 1000. I'd use 2000 but I decided to save space. Especially since the video has horrible interlacing anyway that can't be remedied without losing a lot of detail and getting the "staircase effect". So 1500 is a compromise. They're not unwatchable. And remember, The Simpsons first 10 seasons weren't the best quality anyway. Only in the new millennium did the quality of the TV show match that of Futurama in picture quality. (i.e. how nicely the lines were drawn and colored in. Early Simpsons was a bit sloppy, so you're not really losing much by ripping lower.)
On Futurama at 1000 the show looks fine aside from the intro which has a lot going on so it looks compressed. Once you get into the show it looks better. I assume 2-pass would probably look better in these shows, so if you have the time, do it. Go 1500 if you want. A thing to note, Futurama DVD's were mastered with nice HDTV's in mind, (Especially since the show was originally mastered with nice 3D effects and digital painting as opposed to real paint and plastic cels.) but Simpsons DVD's, even the 9th season, are not really that great quality. So you can lose a bit on Simpsons if you want.
A 1000KBPs episode will be 187MB. A 1500KBPs episode will be 266MB. And a 2000KBPs episode will be 346MB. Plan accordingly.
Any yes, they're only 640x480 4:3 content at whatever bitrate you want.
Play around. Do a test rip of a show at 1000, 1500 and 2000 and watch them next to each other. See if you can find the differences and decide which is the lowest you can stand.
I don't know if the iPods and iPhone can play a full sized video. And if it can, the file would take up too much space for what you'd lose anyway. I'd just assume re-rip the movie or show again at iPod/iPhone size when you decide to go out and delete it later. An on-the-fly thing. That way you get your TV version looking good and your iPod version optimized.
For animation I use what looks good.
For an example, South Park movie I ripped at 1000KBPs and it ends up at less than 700MB but looks almost perfect. So there's no real reason to go higher.
But on TV shows like Futurama and Simpsons I used 1500 or 1000. I'd use 2000 but I decided to save space. Especially since the video has horrible interlacing anyway that can't be remedied without losing a lot of detail and getting the "staircase effect". So 1500 is a compromise. They're not unwatchable. And remember, The Simpsons first 10 seasons weren't the best quality anyway. Only in the new millennium did the quality of the TV show match that of Futurama in picture quality. (i.e. how nicely the lines were drawn and colored in. Early Simpsons was a bit sloppy, so you're not really losing much by ripping lower.)
On Futurama at 1000 the show looks fine aside from the intro which has a lot going on so it looks compressed. Once you get into the show it looks better. I assume 2-pass would probably look better in these shows, so if you have the time, do it. Go 1500 if you want. A thing to note, Futurama DVD's were mastered with nice HDTV's in mind, (Especially since the show was originally mastered with nice 3D effects and digital painting as opposed to real paint and plastic cels.) but Simpsons DVD's, even the 9th season, are not really that great quality. So you can lose a bit on Simpsons if you want.
A 1000KBPs episode will be 187MB. A 1500KBPs episode will be 266MB. And a 2000KBPs episode will be 346MB. Plan accordingly.
Any yes, they're only 640x480 4:3 content at whatever bitrate you want.
Play around. Do a test rip of a show at 1000, 1500 and 2000 and watch them next to each other. See if you can find the differences and decide which is the lowest you can stand.
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