I was just going thru how people are ripping these days.
How many downloaders have a theater that can realistically reproduce 5.1 audio tracks. I am not talking about stacking a bunch of speakers near each other, rather speaker placement in an acoustically clean room with the sound system deployed that can accurately reproduce a 5.1 track the way it was transcribed originally? Those 5.1 tracks take up alot of space. DTS sound tracks used to be a big deal too and took up a bunch of file space. You would be hard pressed and unless you have an exceptionally good ear you can't tell the difference.
Up next is frame rates. Unless you are watching the video on a very high quality monitor and video card, 60 fps is nonsense. The eye/brain connection tops out at 30fps max. I highly doubt if you watched a rip on an ordinary 55" flat screen you couldn't tell the difference btwn PAL or NTSC frame rates and 60 fps. The worst is one the ripper takes a 30 fps source and tries to encode it at 60 fps. See the problem?
Where I find the big problem is these higher compression codecs do so in many cases dropping key frames. Is that important? Try fast forward or backing a program up, it may freeze if the key frames are missing or damaged. Key frames take up space, but well worth it.
Comments are welcome. I've doing rips for a log time.
