As I started listening to my digital music collection, I gradually got bored.

When I first ripped my CD collection, I did so at 128 kbps as AAC. Even with a fairly fast machine it's always an hours long operation. Video transcoding (going from one CODEC to another, or one bitrate to another) always seems to take *forever*. I've ripped to low resolutions and high resolutions. In that time I've encoded and re-encoded quite a bit of media. I've been ripping and encoding media for almost 20 years now. I don't really expect to change your mind with what I'm going to write here, but maybe someone will find it interesting. For comparison, the Godfather II MKV is 39GB.Įxperiment with Handbrake, and decide what's best for you. Storage is cheap, so I keep all my movies as MKV.

Anything further you do is going to cause some loss in quality. What you do is up to you, but the reason the file size from MakeMKV is the way it is, is because it is a perfect copy of what was on the BluRay. By manipulating the video quality, audio encoding, and even the resolution, you'll be able to make the resulting file as small as you want. It also has options for if you want to further strip down the movie, such as remixing the lossless 7.1ch DTS-HD MA audio track you might have in your MKV to 2-channel stereo mp3. It does a good job of re-encoding files, is pretty easy to use, and it's free. How much quality is up to you, based on the settings you choose when re-encoding. You will get a smaller file, but you'll lose information and some quality. If you want to make the file smaller, now you're talking about re-encoding using lossy compression. That's what you have it's identical to watching it directly from the disc. MakeMKV is the best way to rip your BluRays if you want a full-resolution, lossless copy.

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