I've recently obtained 3 VN2's on DVD-R, but there are 2 films on one disc and the disc not even half full, because they've been encoded with a res of 352x288

The closest Gknot can get to this is 384x288 so this is the res they are going to be ripped at, but what would people prefer, a massive 0.388 bits per pixel or a smaller file size?

If it were me, I'd plump for both movies in 700Mb (350Mb each)

coincidentally I was just looking at low resolution rips, as I'm about to start encoding a few movies for my PDA.

Thanks PCA

That would have been my choice (as per Invitation To Hell) but I thought I'd throw it open to the boards. I already had one ripped (GBH) but clicked on PAL 4:3 without checking the original res, time for a re-rip then

It's just my opinion though mate, no doubt others here will have differring ideas

if you had a dvd recorder you could go dvd player to dvd recorder and get full dvd resolution

How do you mean gknot won't encode at the right res? gknot will do any resolution you tell it, by the sounds your using automatic one? Get the proper gknot.

load the files you ripped from the dvd into DGindex that should give you a resolution

@video-man, that's how I got the resolution, 352x288. BTW I have a DVD recorder but surely this wouldn't give any better results than ripping at 576x432 in gknot, it's still a low res source.

@spud, I have the proper gknot, the ballpark resolutions it offers are 352x256, 368x272, or 384x288. Setting w-modul to 1 allows me to reduce the width by 1 pixel but the height is eventually reduced also. TBH I consider 384x288 preferable anyway as it restores the correct 1.33:1 AR, the DVD-R is incorrectly mastered at 1.348:1.