After introducing myself in the "welcome" thread,
http://forum.dead-donkey.com/viewtopic. ... start=1040
questions were posed and it was suggested I start a new thread to avoid going off topic. Any other questions or comments are welcome.

I mentioned in my introduction that my non-horror movie interests include pre-70s campy nudist flicks and named "Goldilocks and the Three Bares (1963)" as an example. A link to the film was asked for:
ed2k: Goldilocks%20and%20the%20Three%20Bares%20(1963)%20Herschell%20Gordon%20Lewis.avi  [699.72 Mb] [Stats]

I had only planned on making release pages of my own rips, but I'm led to infer that I can release other peoples' rips if they are of interest to Dead Donkey members. Is this correct?

Also, a question was raised about the size of my rips - 900mb, rather than the usual 700mb. I use AutoGK to encode my DVR's vob files to avi, and I find the extra 200mb adds noticeable quality. Since I make my rips for my own archival purposes then share them out, I would like to continue with the 900mb file size unless it really causes too many headaches for other members.

I have tried using the full Gordian Knot in the past, and I find it way too technical and time consuming for my liking. AutoGK instead, does all the analyzing, cropping, de-interlacing and other stuff that needs to be done, and gives me a result I'm very happy with. Call me lazy I know, but even after fiddling with Gordian Knot for hours, and following all the guides I could find online, my results with it were still inferior to what I get with AutoGK.

Anyhow, I hope to be posting more rare films soon that appear on the specialty channels I get at home. I find it weird that more SatRips are not made considering satellite is a great resource for hard to find films.

The results of GK are FAR better than that of AutoGK, if they're not then you've misconfigured GK, there's a few guides on this site that should be able to help.

The only hard bit comes after youve ripped & its come out grainy, or ghosted, or blocky or interlaced etc. as thats when you have to start adding filters to improve things. Its no slower than AGK to rip with until you apply some filtering.

1/6 DVD aka 745mb rips seem to be the new standard, they call these AFR (Advanced Filesize Regulations).

That's the bummer part. Encoding for 2 hours and getting an unsatisfactory result, then encoding again, and again, and maybe again. (Darnit, I'm starting to whine.)

Hold on though, AGK rips are far less reliable than GK. AGK is auto & it often doesnt crop or resizes wrong & even includes anything thats in the same vob (trailers etc) in the rip it does, thus by using GK youre already fixing that in the first place. AGK will not stop you getting the above problems as it doesnt auto apply filters.