I'm planning on getting an Apple TV soon, so I've been ripping my video
collection from DVD to m4v files, importing to iTunes.  I finished my
movies last week, and am now starting on my TV series, starting with B5
(it's alphabetically first).

Much to my surprise, ripping to 720p is a horrible idea!  That's the
resolution I selected for the movie collection, and it seems to have
upconverted well.  The main reason I selected that was because the
conversion software I'm using has a "Dolby Digital Pass-through" option
available at 720 and 1080 resolutions, and the 1080 files were just too
big.

But with B5, upconverting while ripping is causing the output file to
skip and stutter the video.  I also noticed that unlike the movies in
my collection, the upconversion is introducing jaggedness on lines (and
curves) that are not straight vertical or horizontal - live-action as
well as CGI.  Issues that are not present when playing the disks and
the DVD player upconverts via HDMI.

-- 
Jeffrey Kaplan                                         www.gordol.org
Double ROT13 encoded for your protection

Peter's Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord, #36.
I will not imprison members of the same party in the same cell block,
let alone the same cell. If they are important prisoners, I will keep
the only key to the cell door on my person instead of handing out
copies to every bottom-rung guard in the prison.


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