I want to convert my Stargate SG1 DVD's to digital, I usually just rip music, so I’m not that familiar with all the advanced settings for doing video. I ripped one track as test, it was wide screen, but I had black picture frame all the way around it during playback. I had left all the settings at default, and didn't even open up the "advanced area", I then went into advanced and changed the Frame to 1280 x 720, this did give me a file that plays in full screen. But I was surprised to see that the file size actually became smaller. Usually the higher the quality, they large the file.
I'm not concerned with the large file size as I have plenty of room on my HDD's. I want to create files with AVS settings that will give me the best quality playback on my Samsung 55" Smart TV. The quality of the first few seasons of the DVD playback is not that great, I think when the show started it was shot in WS, but not in HD.
1.There are 4 - 5 chapters on each disc, so I set it split using Chapters, but that did not work, so I changed it to Batch Mode, and that gave me file for each episode/track.
2. I decided to use MP4 as file format.
3. I set the Frame Rate to a max (30fps), and the frame size to 1280 x 720
There are a lot of different choices on settings and advanced, just want to know what everything should be set at to provide the best quality?