Home Media Storage and Streaming
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MKV's
AVI's
Films stored on DVD's and Blueray disks are great, but they take up a lot of space and you keep having to get up to change them. Typically a DVD can hold 4.7 Gigabytes of data, and a Blueray disk 25 Gigabytes per layer (they may have 2). Through the process of ripping (copying the films from DVD or Blueray to hard disk) and then encoding them into a different format, it is possible to drastically reduce the size of these movie files without massive loss of quality. Two popular encoding formats exist AVI's and MKV's, with the MKV format able to retain the highest quality of output video and commonly used to encode Blueray disks. Modern media players have the ability to play many video file formats including AVI's and MKV's.
You get to keep your DVD or Blueray disk collection but have a more manageable and accessible format for them.
A film copied from a DVD can be reduced from 4.7GB down to a few hundred megabytes but for best results and quality a minimum size of 700MB is recommended. AVI's are also a common format for videos created with home video equipment.
Similarly, a film copied from a Blueray disk can be reduced down to just over 1 Gigabyte (1.2GB) without substantial loss of quality using Matroska (MKV) rendering. Of course your Blueray disks can be render at far higher quality if desired, and Matroska can also be used for encoding DVD's too.
VideoLAN (VLC) is a free Media player, supporting a wide spectrum of audio and video formats, that you can download onto your Laptop or desktop computer to watch your AVI's and MKV's, turning your computer into a media player.
Use this in preferance to MS Media Player due to its superior support for different video and audio file formats.
