Which movie rips to downlod for a flat tv
August 4th, 2016
Are there any other rippers, whose movies sound good on flat tvs ?
Thanks
The TV has software to play the video files built-into it. What model (and not just sony but sony xxxx-xxxx) do you have? Different models have different software and each supports different file formats.
The best format for the standard TV, is an mp4 file, encoded with h.264 (x.264) with AAC audio (not dts/ac3). The issue with dts / ac3 is that if your television does not have 5.1 etc, it has to downmix on the fly. Sound turns out to be horrible when it does this.
So …
Use you software of choice to convert to x264 with AAC audio. This answer could change depending on your television model.
Most of our own decoders like Shanig etc usually do a pretty good job..
You can try as Rick suggests and use Xmedia Recode.
You can usually keep the file extension as is and change Video to “Copy” instead of “Convert”.
With the audio, select “convert” and in the left hand column click on “Volume correction”.
Now you can either set it manually or pick “Normalise” which should sort it out for you.
Down the bottom, set where you want the output.
Then go up the top and click on “Add to queue” and then you click “Encode”
And about 2 and a half minutes later (or undoubtedly less with an overclocked i7)…It should all be done
Most of our own decoders like Shanig etc usually do a pretty good job..
You can try as Rick suggests and use Xmedia Recode.
You can usually keep the file extension as is and change Video to "Copy" instead of "Convert".
With the audio, select "convert" and in the left hand column click on "Volume correction".
Now you can either set it manually or pick "Normalise" which should sort it out for you.
Down the bottom, set where you want the output.
Then go up the top and click on "Add to queue" and then you click "Encode"
And about 2 and a half minutes later (or undoubtedly less with an overclocked i7)...It should all be done
No, you absolutely don’t want to normalise the audio (unless that option doesn’t actually normalise but do something differently). By normalising, you’re essentially making everything to be the same volume, which will make it sound horrible.
True that Normalise is not exactly Hi-Fi, but can help to hear the dialogue in some movies more easily.
I just put a movie through it and it came out quite clearly….Something to try anyhow….I don’t think the one in Xmedia recode is too drastic.
the brand of your tv is actually important , it is well known that LG has problems with .mkv and dts audio , where philips and samsung have doesnt. personally i always watch .mkv , m720p over 2-3 gb over or m1080p over 5-6 gb , there are even so called 1080p movies with 500mb , the results with these will be same as you encountered , i would give you a few good sites for hd which has its own encoders , probably it is againts the rules so i cant. it is always better to download movies with AC3 audio codec for less problems , u may convert or do some operations over audio with the help of 3rd party software but it both cost time and may not give the expected results
It depends on the brand / model of TV, how old it is, and whether the firmware has been updated … some Samsung models actually crash playing any video with AC3; some play 7.1 without issue; some just manage normal stereo. I know – unfortunately the 3 Samsung sets I have don’t play well together in terms of the formats they will accept.
So if I want one video that will play on all three sets when using a usb or streaming, I have to go to the x.264/AAC wrapped in a mp4 container. If there’s a movie I want to keep with the highest quality, I’ll keep that version in another directory just to keep things a bit organized.