Video conversion settings for HD Ready TV

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Hi,

I have the D Series 51" HD ready Plasma and want to convert my DVD collection to play them of my external hard drive.

Which format should I use e.g. AVI, MP4 etc?
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What other settings like resolution and audio bit rates should I choose?
 
KSINGH said:
Hi,

I have the D Series 51" HD ready Plasma and want to convert my DVD collection to play them of my external hard drive.

Which format should I use e.g. AVI, MP4 etc?
&
What other settings like resolution and audio bit rates should I choose?
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You will lose quality. Rather just rip them without converting.
 
I recommend ripping to MKV using Handbrake. You can just set the quality setting high - you won't notice much of a difference between a good rip and direct copy but you will save yourself a lot of hard drive space. Ripping and encoding can be time consuming though if you don't have a beefy enough processor.
 
Ok thanks guys.I may end up using about 4 laptops to rip if it is time consuming maybe over the weekend.
 
I used to keep all my DVDs as raw VOBs... but now with Handbrake, you can compress a typical DVD movie to MKV (H.264) with a size of about 2GB (including original audio).
 
For some reason handbrake did not scan Aliens successfully. I used Aiseesoft. Mkv settings: mp4, aac5.1 and the rest at max. Will check size now. Should I use H.264?

Ok, size is 4.46GB. Also divx could not play the file.
 
KSINGH said:
For some reason handbrake did not scan Aliens successfully. I used Aiseesoft. Mkv settings: mp4, aac5.1 and the rest at max. Will check size now. Should I use H.264?

Ok, size is 4.46GB. Also divx could not play the file.
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Yes. Use H.264
 
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