I'm planning on getting an Apple TV soon, so I've been ripping my video   
   collection from DVD to m4v files, importing to iTunes.  I finished my   
   movies last week, and am now starting on my TV series, starting with B5   
   (it's alphabetically first).   
      
   Much to my surprise, ripping to 720p is a horrible idea!  That's the   
   resolution I selected for the movie collection, and it seems to have   
   upconverted well.  The main reason I selected that was because the   
   conversion software I'm using has a "Dolby Digital Pass-through" option   
   available at 720 and 1080 resolutions, and the 1080 files were just too   
   big.   
      
   But with B5, upconverting while ripping is causing the output file to   
   skip and stutter the video.  I also noticed that unlike the movies in   
   my collection, the upconversion is introducing jaggedness on lines (and   
   curves) that are not straight vertical or horizontal - live-action as   
   well as CGI.  Issues that are not present when playing the disks and   
   the DVD player upconverts via HDMI.   
      
   --    
   Jeffrey Kaplan                                         www.gordol.org   
   Double ROT13 encoded for your protection   
      
   Peter's Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord, #36.   
   I will not imprison members of the same party in the same cell block,   
   let alone the same cell. If they are important prisoners, I will keep   
   the only key to the cell door on my person instead of handing out   
   copies to every bottom-rung guard in the prison.   
      
      
   --- MBSE BBS v1.0.01 (GNU/Linux-i386)   
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