Just need good settings for streaming video

[gregos]

Hi,

I'm just wanting advice on good general profile setting to take DVDs and make them a file that can be streamed to netgear eva8000 box and just watched on computer screen... I want to make the movie smaller than the normal 4gb range so more will fit on my dvr computer. But don;t want to make quality and sound poor either... Also need to know if volume will need boosting etc.

There are just sooo many setting in the generic conversion profile.

Greg

[GregiBoy]

Hi Greg,

If I were you, I would start with the generic.avi.xvid.audiocopy profile, set AC3/5.1 audio selected, 2 pass encoding set at 1100 video bitrate and a resolution close to the original DVD (PAL 720 x XXX, NTSC 704 x XXX) and see whether you are happy with the result.

THis works perfectly for me on my Ziova CS615 which is similar to the EVA8000 hooked up to a 52" Samsung HDTV.

For high-motion actions movies (such as Matrix, etc) I do bump the video bitrate up to around 1500.

Hope this helps.

[gregos]

Thanks for fast response! I'll try it out.

Greg