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Originally Posted by rlg118
You're right - it is overkill. My view is that since compression can never add, only take away, from something which is already compressed, then I want as much of it as I can get.
I rip MP3s at 320 ("preset insane") for the same reason. If I need to "re-inflate" them (convert them back to WAV files) for editing, then I have lost very little of the original.
I remember ripping Viva Las Vegas at 2000, and then again at 3000, and the difference was striking. So I went to 4000! It is Ann-Margret, after all! 
On the theory that too much is never enough, I rarely go below 5000 now, unless the only device I will play it on is my phone. |
Now see music I do, like you, rip it at MP3/320. I want my music as HQ as possible, but I do try to avoid wav or flac. Those sizes are massive.
But with Viva Las Vegas, that's a big Hollywood flick so I'm sure the people who produced, maybe remastered, the movie/DVD did in fact make it at a high enough quality that ripping it at 3000 (or more) was worth it, and you could notice the crisp quality. But it's not so much the case with a low budget porn movie from 1998.
By the way, sorry I know this is a topic on h.264, but we've diverted a bit anyway, so allow me a quick separate question, still on topic of aspect ratios and all that. I've always wondered and wanted to know this, but I don't want to start a whole new thread for this. Does anyone know what the default aspect ratio was for VHS movies (adult, Hollywood, whatever) back in the day? In other words, DVDs back in the days of full screen 4:3, had a common aspect ratio of 640 by 480, because it was the perfect frame for those old school TVs I previously referenced. But, what was the common aspect ratio on a VHS? Was it, generally, also 640x480, or something lower? I'm curious because when I rip VHS, since it isn't digital and there's no way of obtaining the specs (is that the right word?), it gives no mention of what the actual aspect ratio is, and I have to wing it and size it myself.