Hello there, for the past couple of weeks I have been busy building up a decent library of HD content from various sources using RShare to D/L... I am half happy with the quality, but want to get as close to the real quality of an actual Bluray disc as is possible. I will be using a PS3 to playback the files and have a couple of questions for the forum....
1. What size should I be looking for for a typicle length film, as I hav noticed that Iron man, for instance, can be anything from 4gb to 36gb, although I realise that the 36gb will be uncompressed and will include all the special features which I'm not interested in. The 4gb movies I have look knowhere near as impressive as a bona-fide BD playing through my PS3.
2. What is the best way to get HD content from your pc to the PS3, without any loss in quality, I have been looking at memory sticks, so this takes me back to the required size of file to get true Bluray quality. I would prefer though to burn files to disc, compressed, how are you guys doing it.
Any help appreciated and I have btw, searched through this and other forums without finding a decent answer to my questions.....
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4GB is too compressed. A good encoder can compress a 36GB blu-ray to about DVD9 size with little loss of quality. In other words, unless you have the original you will never be able to tell the difference. A good way to tell if you encode is good quality is if it does not have banding or blocking. If it has any of these elements then they are crappy encodes. About 99% of anime encoding groups out there do not know how to encode and the same can be said about movie encoders (aXXo and a4e for example has probably the worst quality i have ever seen).
Instead to trying to get HD content from PC to PS3 try a direct connection from your PC to you TV, its much easier.
My pc is already hooked up to my lcd via DVI/HDMI and the output is decent although can be jerky during fast scenes, for instance Transformers isnt 100%. The ps3 seems to playback more fluidly and as most of my mates have ps3's hooked up to there HD screens it is just more convenient to share files on this platform. So, a filesize of around 8g is what I'm looking for ?? I reckon a 10g data stick is what I need, thanks for your help.....
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I have a Home Theatre PC equipped with Blu-ray and it plays fine. You might want to check the refresh rate settings on your PC. Try 24Hz, if your TV supports it (this is the native frame rate for Blu-ray, well 23.976 to be exact). If 24Hz presents problems, try 60Hz. The Blu-ray will then be played at 29.98 FPS (with pulldown processing added).
I rip Blu-ray discs to DVD-9's (8GB) all the time and I can sincerely say there is almost no visually perceivable quality difference from the original. You just need to make sure that your h264 encoder is set up to retain maximum quality. See the links in my signature if you want to learn more about this process. There is also a link for a MeGUI/x264 Blu-ray profile that I have created to help people new into encoding to get good quality Blu-ray encodes.
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