Looking back on the format wars... Feature film size / bandwidth

[John Kotches]

I'm saving between 3-5 gb for most features by removing extraneous soundtracks and subtitles.

There are a couple of discs where ripping directly to mkv with MakeMKV isn't working. On these, I rip to an iso (stripped of copy protection, again AnyDVD), then use the iso to create the mkv.

 

[dfergie]

Some of mine will play, but are not rippable either with my 2 Xbox HD DVD drives or my internal on my pc (Superman, Superman Returns & U2 Rattle & Hum) have tried make mkv, Anydvd & Dvdfab ...

 

[John Kotches]

New record holder for size is the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo @ ~45GB for the feature.

 

[John Kotches]

dfergie:

Trying to think of a convoluted path that would get you to the promised land.

Can AnyDVD rip to folder structure or .iso at all or is it barfing before completion?

I was thinking something along the lines of...

1) Rip with AnyDVD to folder structure
2) Use imbburn to create iso of folder structure
3) Use .iso with makemkv to end up with a .mkv

Lacking that, you might have to break down and buy them on blu-ray.

 

[John Kotches]

As an FYI, as I get down to the final 15 or so discs to rip I'll say this.

One of the big selling points of Blu-ray was BD+. Only about 1/3 of my collection has had BD+. I'm not complaining, because that makes the starting of the rip that much faster

 

[John Kotches]

I'm literally on the last disc of my "big rip"... Why is it always the last disc that gives you issues? Firefly, the Series has been a PITA to rip. For whatever reason mkv has not been stable with the authoring, so I've had to rip each episode individually.

Final Tally:

1   HD-DVD TV Series
83  HD-DVD Movies
11  DVD TV Series
64  DVD Movies
6   Blu-ray TV Series
289 Blu-ray Movies

Not hauling media all over the house... Priceless

 

[dfergie]

Firefly went pretty quickly with makemkv for me. I have it and the HD DVD version of Serenity on a Scifi drive in a Firefly folder.

 

[Dirtydan]

I actually bought a second HD DVD player, so I could have a backup, and be able to use it in my HT room and living room. Neither get much use anymore.

Same here, I have 98 HD dvds, some I have not watched yet.

 

[John Kotches]

Firefly went pretty quickly with makemkv for me. I have it and the HD DVD version of Serenity on a Scifi drive in a Firefly folder.

it kept failing on discs 1 and 2 between titles. but its done which is great news for me!

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[John Kotches]

I did some basic number crunching and came up with the following stats for Blu-ray discs... Note this is for the feature, no extras, no extraneous subtitles, only 1 or 2 soundtracks depending on the disc.

# of Movies: 289
Storage: 6.9TB
Avg / movie: 23.87 GB
Median: 24 GB
Smallest: 10 GB (Corpse Bride)
Largest: 43 GB (Dances with Wolves)
Highest Avg bit rate: 42.46 Mbits/sec (Minority Report)

I'm still gathering data, so don't hold me to the Highest Avg rate.

Curious stats... still talking about feature film only without extras or extraneous data:
220 of 289 films fit on dual layer HD-DVD.
137 of 289 films fit on single layer Blu-ray
7 of 289 films fit on single layer HD-DVD

I'm not counting a few demo discs I've ripped in these totals as it skews the numbers.

 

[John Kotches]

Once I finish the .mkv conversion of the HD-DVD titles, I'll do a similar analysis on them.