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Originally Posted by Jhcheslik
No way. That's crazy! I got to try that someday when I got the proper Blu-Ray/HDDVD ROM.
Okay, so in your wiki, I noticed that when you said if our source was HD rip, (Blu-Ray, etc.) and we should have higher horizontal value, but wouldn't that reduce the quality?
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1. No... you don't get what I'm saying. You don't even need a BD/HDDVD drive to reencode a Blu-Ray to a standard definition video compatible with XBMC For Xbox. All you need is a 4.5-10GB
scene BDRip (from
http://scenereleases.info/category/m...ies-bluray-rip) and just use that as your source file in the AviSynth Script Creator instead of a D2V. This will give you much a cleaner looking video than you will get from a DVD because DVD's are already encoded with HORRIBLE looking MPEG2... and we all know that MPEG2 is already a very
lossy codec -- especially at the bitrates that DVDs are constrained to. So, in clonclusion, if you download a lot of DVD's off torrent sites, STOP wasting your time and download the BDRips! Then make proper Xbox-compatible rips from them, and then upload them to ThePirateBay or ******** so that I can download them from you!
2. No... having a higher horizontal value will not neccessarily reduce quality -- as long as you counter with a lower vertical value you should come out with virtually the same exact quality. And if you are staying within the recommended bitrates that I have outlined in my chart then you are already doing this. The reason why this works is because the chart's bitrates are in direct relation to the number of pixels we are telling XBMC to render... The chart is actually based on a simple mathmatical formula that takes a
magical number of and divides it by the number of pixels in a resolution in order to get a specific bitrate for that resolution. As an example, a resolution of 800x336 is the same as 672x400 because when multiplied together they both equal the same number of pixels, and therefore they share that same bitrate as well, which happens to be 1370.
But no.... I never said that you HAVE to use a higher resolution for Blu-Ray rips... it was simply a suggestion based on my personal preference. The only instance that I seeing it make sense not to use a horizontal value higher than 720 is when you are watching your movies on a TV that only supports 480P and not 720P or higher.