using handbrake to rip dvds

[ljonesj]

I want the best video but using the least amount of hard drive space that i can get but keeping a good quality looking video. What settings do you guys use.
As i ripped my harry potter movie 3 and it was like a 1gig file it was great quality but i need to actually get it around 700 mb

 

[rowsdower]

Try using the same settings but change the target file size to 700 MB and see if the quality is good enough for you.

 

[ljonesj]

Well i played around with the settings even more and found a sweet spot i like at about 500 mb on the target. I hope tomorrow on black friday to get myself a 1.5tb external harddrive to store the movies for my server. I have as the little 500gig is a little small in my media server i stream everything to my mini but I encode on the mini and my windows machine so i can have 2 machines doing several different disks at once. Question is there away to get handbrake to rip dvds like it does in osx for windows i have vlc and handbrake but hand brake tells me it is a copy protected disk in windows.