[HELP] How do I keep DVD rips small in size?

[Toothache]

Hi!

I have a lot of DVDs that take up a lot of space, so I'm trying to find a way to make them smaller in size. I'd wish to have them smaller in size without losing quality.

You can encode it with x264, or better yet, x265, and probably get a much smaller file without any loss in perceived quality. That is, you probably won't notice any quality loss, unless you strain your eyes and look for it. However, you have to know something about the encoding options to be able to achieve that. If you are new to encoding (I'm presuming!), try a CRF encode. Filtering out noise and compression artifacts would greatly help, as selur mentioned.


@selur : Not to hijack the thread, but since you mentioned the fact that DVDs usually have a lot of compression artifacts, could you mention some of the common ones, and which vaporsynth or x265 options to use to remove them? I have a few DVDs of old TV shows from the 70s and 80s, and they are choke full of bad artifacts - but I don't know what kind of artifacts they are. Deblocking, debanding, derainbow, denoising....what would you expect would help? I know it depends on the source, but generally what are the most common filters to make that sort of DVD videos better?