Post You... iTunes Movie(s) Poster(s)

[Krevnik]

Thread ressurrection.

I decided to jump on for a couple reasons:

1) I am in the middle of a DVD ripping project, and so have a fair amount of content right now (170GB of video and counting).

2) I have achieved something I think you guys might be interested in. An actual 720p rip that (should) work with Apple TV.

And for the actual 720p rip: http://web.mac.com/adamth/Files/FifthElement.png The image is a bit deceiving, while I did rip it at 1080p and scale it down to 720p, I also cropped the letterboxing to restore the 2.40:1 aspect ratio. So the final resolution is 1280x536 instead of 1280x720, but the rest is just black bars, so why waste the space on it?

So, I have streamable HD content in my library.

 

[silbeej]

waht are you using to rip at 720p? I'd like to know what program does that and how.

thanks

 

[skinnylegs]

Probably a dumb question but.....

How do you get movies like Harry Potter which iTunes doesn't sell in your iTunes movie library?

 

[livingfortoday]

Probably a dumb question but.....

How do you get movies like Harry Potter which iTunes doesn't sell in your iTunes movie library?

Rip 'em yourself and encode them as .mp4 files, then just import them into iTunes. Handbrake is probably the best program for that.

 

[skinnylegs]

Thanks for the tip! I'll check out Handbrake right now!

 

[skinnylegs]

Krevnik......outstanding choice of movies, I *love* The Fifth Element.

 

[the kid 05]

waht are you using to rip at 720p? I'd like to know what program does that and how.

thanks

what he said

 

[Krevnik]

waht are you using to rip at 720p? I'd like to know what program does that and how.

There isn't really any one program that works right now, and the process I worked out doesn't work for everything yet. I have 3 ripped Blu-Ray movies I can't re-encode for various reasons (audio, video, and subtitle issues), and I have 5 more I can't rip at all just yet. I have 8 ripped HD-DVD movies I can't re-encode because of audio and EVOB issues.

But for MPEG-2 encoded Blu-Ray movies, the process usually is something like:
- Use BackupBluRay on windows, if the disc key has been discovered to get the decrypted movie files.
- Under OS X, use VLC to extract the AC3 audio (ffmpeg and the like have issues right now).
- Use ffmpeg to take the MPEG-2 video from the original file, and the newly extracted AC3 audio and output a VOB.
- Open the new VOB in MPEG Streamclip, export to MPEG-4 (slow, but great quality). Make sure your resulting file size will stay under 4GB, which usually means you get stuck with about 4.5Mbps bitrates (barely enough for good 720p).
- Open the MP4 in Quicktime to make sure audio is in sync, if not adjust it using QT Pro, and then re-export, but using passthrough on the audio and video.
- Lostify and import into iTunes.

Yeah, not exactly for the faint of heart yet.

 

[Krevnik]

Krevnik......outstanding choice of movies, I *love* The Fifth Element.

It is good, but it was also one of the few Blu-Ray titles I /knew/ would rip and let me re-encode it, so it let me work out a reasonable way to re-encode some of my movies.