to think I used to be either too concerned with space or too lazy to grab all this stuff. I'm being a proper Archivist now. unfortunately this is interlaced (which I remember from the first time I ripped it). so in addition to starting some more -c:v x264-tune animation -crf 18 encodes when my fileserver has some free bandwidth, I gotta remember how to deal with that in ffmpeg.
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in reply to @lunemercove's post:
I could kick off more encodes at once, it'll just make them take longer. but taking longer means longer before I can look at the results and verify they're up to my newer more thoughtful standards. and I really do want to load all this shit into plex and show it to people and know it all looks as good as I reasonably could have made it.
dvd in general I would be comfortable going a bit higher than 18, but animation shows the loss in quality more quickly. I put a bit columbo side by side 18 and 24 and I could tell, but there's enough lost in the grain as is that I was comfortable living with that. specifically what stopped me from knocking it down to 22 or more is I found a different scene where there's a close-up of an actress' face and it just kind of looked fuzzy even raw off the disk. between that discovery and the stuff I've been posting out, I feel like the end result is fine at 24.
there's also another non-Avatar animated thing I've been re-encoding, that's 1080p, where I could also see the loss in quality and really didn't like that in the context of some really good looking drawn backgrounds. so I think for the blu-rays (which I have a giant pile of, I'm doing TV first and that involves a lot of DVD rips), those are going to trend more to 18 esp for animation.
ultimately I'm trying to find a nice equilibrium between 1) I don't want to rip these again 2) I do still have space concerns even if I'm somewhat mitigating them 3) I know I've found quality loss in the range 18-24 hard to tell depending on media before 4) I don't want to watch one of these later and realize something looks a lot worse than I thought 5) part of me does just want to make the best encoding I possibly could even if it's wasteful.