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Thinking about getting apple tv question about ripping dvds
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As Dan said, use HandBrake to transcode DVDs to h.264. You might want to use a ripper (like Mac the Ripper) to line up a bunch of DVDs and them run them through HandBrake overnight.
You can use Time Capsule to store your media library, but you will need to have your computer on and iTunes running for any media you want to stream. Anything you sync to the ATV you can access without needing to have iTunes running.
You can use Time Capsule to store your media library, but you will need to have your computer on and iTunes running for any media you want to stream. Anything you sync to the ATV you can access without needing to have iTunes running.
720 for theTV
It looks plenty good, but I can't wait until its true 1080!
The OP is asking about DVD ripping - you wouldn't transcode a DVD to 720p, no point.
Umm...Wasn't the OP asking about the
TV? As far as I know it can only playback at 720 quality. I suppose he could store other copies of higher quality rips but, as of now, the max the TV can display is 720, right? Umm...Wasn't the OP asking about the
The OP was asking what the quality of ripped DVDs is like. As said, they are upscaled 480p, and, if using the Apple TV preset in HandBrake, the picture quality is pretty much the same as the source DVD. On my 37" LCD and to my eyes, ripped DVDs look the same as if I play them on my upscaling DVD player.
I have a 1.5TB HDD hooked up to my Mac mini which is then connected via ethernet to my Airport Extreme base station. I add movies/tv shows/music to my iTunes library which then streams it over the network to the Apple TV in the living room.
As long as iTunes can see the media (and its in the right format) then you should be able to stream it to your Apple TV
I usually encode (via Handbrake) at about 3000KBit/s in H.264, double pass, and drop the audio down from 160KBit to 128, at 41,000Hz. This only slightly reduces the audio quality, and the video quality is good. I chose to do it into H.264 MP4 as dark scenes had a bit too much noise.
pac
As long as iTunes can see the media (and its in the right format) then you should be able to stream it to your Apple TV
I usually encode (via Handbrake) at about 3000KBit/s in H.264, double pass, and drop the audio down from 160KBit to 128, at 41,000Hz. This only slightly reduces the audio quality, and the video quality is good. I chose to do it into H.264 MP4 as dark scenes had a bit too much noise.
pac
Why not just use the constant quality slider? I don't understand why you waste file space encoding at 3000kbps for video, but then drop the audio quality. This makes no sense to me.
Just use the ATV preset, and maybe slide the quality up to 61%. You'll get a great looking encode, 5.1 AC3 passthru, and it will still be a smaller file than your 3K/128kpbs AAC encodes.