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Old 07-21-2008, 12:59 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by sclitheroe View Post
For DVD rips, I think you need to get them into h.264 format. There's lots of utils that will help you with that, I use VisualHub on the Mac and it works well. If you've already ripped a substantial portion of your library to some other video format, I haven't really noticed that big a loss in quality transcoding (eg. going from DIVX to h.264) as long as the source material was ripped at a decent bit rate.

2500 kbps rips look fine on the AppleTV, you can go up to a theoretical 5000 kbps, but I don't notice any improvement visually, and the file sizes of course balloon way up.
Good to know, thanks.

Do you find the movies look darker than they should after you rip them? On my TV, whenever I rip to .mp4, they are almost too dark to even watch.
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