I searched on various websites to see how I can do this but haven't found anything. If there is something already available, sorry for asking again.
Here's what I want to do. I have some Blu-Ray movies at home and wanted to back them in my PC to be able to play them. However, the size is a little big and I don't want to take too much space on my HDD. My TV is only 720p. I don't need the 1080p quality.
One of the movie I have is 300. This one uses VC-1.
I checked some tutorials and managed to extract both the audio (.ac3) and the video (.vc1).
I read that converting .vc1 files to .h264 files is really long and I don't have the time or the PC for that kind of conversion.
So, what I want to do is convert this .vc1 1080p file to .vc1 720p file. Is this possible and how long would it take? Finally, how can I do it.
In resume, here's the step I want to do:
1 - Rip my blu-ray movie in my PC with AnyDVD and remove the copy protection.
2 - Extract the audio with "eac3to". (.ac3)
3 - Extract the video with "tsmuxer". (.vc1)
4 - Resize the .vc1 to 720p.
5 - Merge the audio and video into a .mkv.
6 - Watch the movie.
I am now at step #4 and don't know how to proceed!
It would take the same amount if not longer to convert VC-1 to VC-1, I'm sure there are a few methods, but the only one I'm aware of is converting to WMV-HD.
Plus, h264 has better compression efficiency than VC-1... so h264 = smaller, better quality. Based on how powerfl your PC is, and what settings you apply to x264.exe, you can recode VC-1 to h264 in about 6-8 hours with good quality. I suggest MeGUI/AviSynth to convert to h264.
Plus, VC-1 in mkv creates weird playback issues, not fully compatible yet. If you must view a VC-1 codec movie on your PC, you are better of muxing to either .ts or .m2ts using tsMuxeR.
Plus, you can extract video streams using eac3to... two birds/one stone.
