05-09-2011, 02:19 AM
This is a situation where there literally is NO right answer. You can play with Handbrake til the cows come home and still not be satisfied. Excellent quality? Then the file is too big. Small file size? Compromised quality. Not to mention the best formats available. I googled this myself years ago when i started digitizing my DVDs. The only thing i found out is that there was nothing to find out. What worked for one person failed for another. I ended up installing Handbrake and "diving right in". I made several versions of movies saved different ways. Put them on my media server and watched them on my TV in the living room (where I'd be viewing all my movies eventually). And basically settled for what I thought was the best compromise of quality vs. file size. At this point however, with drive prices being what they re, I'm almost thinking of just ripping all my DVDs and leaving them as TS folders.