How To Rip Dvds To The Gp2x

[skarmachild]

I recently made a guide on how to rip your favourite DVD's to your GP2X step by step, I hope you appreciate it and feel free to point out errors. Pictures to accompany the steps are provided in a link.

GP2X DVD Ripping Guide - Step By Step

www.curiositylabs.co.uk/guide.htm


What you'll need:

DIVX (3.11, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x) - http://www.divx.com/
DVD Decryptor - http://www.mrbass.org/dvdrip/ (You might need this)
DVDX - http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_so...ippers/dvdx.cfm

How to do it:

1. Open DVDx (after you have installed it) with a DVD ROM in the drive.
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2. Choose "File" > "Open DVD Root"
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3. In the "Select Title" window, choose the longest file (time wise) there and click "Select".
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4. You should be in the "Input Settings" window.
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5. On the right hand side you should see a mini-box called "Save your DVD-Drive". In this click the "Location" drop down box and select "Hard disk", then choose a place to save the file on your Hard Drive.
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6. In the "Size (MB)", enter 300 (for 300MB's).
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7. On the bottom left of the window, you should see the "Misc" mini-box. In the "iDCT" drop-down box, select whatever iDCT is suitable for your processor (it will tell you beside the name).
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8. Click "OK" in the window.
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9. The screen should be black (If it is, skip stages 10,11,12, if not read on).
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10. If the screen isn't black (green, garbled up, "too many samples") then you must download the DVD Decryptor program (as linked above). Install it. Open it up.
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11. On the right hand side there should be a list of files. Click "Edit" (at the top), select "Main Movie Files". Then it should select certain movie files at the right hand side. If so, click the Decrypt button (the image at the bottom left with a DVD then an arrow pointing to a Hard Disk). It will take a while.
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12. After it has finished, close down DVD Decryptor and go back to DVDx. Go to "File" - "Open IFO" and locate the IFO which you just saved to the Hard Disk (the file is normally called “VTS_01_0.IFO”). selecting it should open the "Input Settings" window, but all the settings should be saved from the last changes you made. So just click OK, DVDx should show a black screen.
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13. Go to "Settings" > "Output Settings".
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14. At the very top left of the window, click the drop down box and choose "AVI (DivX, YUV,...). Then click the "Audio Lame" button underneath and in the "Lame" window, in the "Bitrate" drop down box, choose 160KBits (Quality should be "Q3 High" and Channel should be "Stereo". In the drop-down box a few bits below it, make sure it says "DivX 6.2.2 Codec (1 Logical CPU).
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15. Click the "Pass 1 settings" below and click the calculator icon in the bottom right corner. In the "Filesize" box type in 300(MB) or 400(MB) (more if the film is 2+ hours). Click accept to close the bitrate calculator, then click OK to close the DivX window, bringing you back to the DVDx Output Settings.
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16. In the "Expert Settings" box, in the "Export (AVI + Premiere)" drop-down box, select "YUY2". In the Export Settings on the right hand side, type in 320x240 as a resolution. Click the "Whole" button beside the "Max frame" setting.
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17. Click apply on the window, then go to "File" > "Select Output" in the main DVDx window. Choose a filename and destination and click ok.
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18. Click the Record (Encode) Button (small red circle) at the bottom right hand corner of the main DVDx window.
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19. If a warning comes up saying "Wrong settings block for AVI video codec", click yes. You should see a little bar telling you that the movie is buffering. After that, you should see the movie playing by skipping frames in the main DVDx window , it is now recording. After it is finished just drag the movie file to your GP2X and enjoy!
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Credits:
skarmachild - For writing the guide
lordieth - To adding + correcting bits to the guide
aaronayl1 - References
pell - For sharing it to the lovely folk at GR Forums

 

[zektor]

Hmm, thansk for the tutorial (well, I really don't need it, but I'm sure others may find it helpful) but this is way to many steps IMHO. Here's what I do:

1.> Rip said DVD to one solid vob using DVDDecrypter.

2.> Load the solid VOB file into DivX Converter, choose a profile and hit convert.

That's all there really is to it. You can adjust the profile in DivX Converter of course if you want a different resolution or audio bitrate (ie: I change this to 480x320/800kbps for the Zodiac and TCPMP). The GP2X player seems to handle much more powerful settings, so I'll have to play with it some more and see what I can achieve. Although, every movie I have converted using the above method works perfectly beautiful on the GP2X.

 

[Khayman]

And for mac?

....... Got the answer

 

[linoleum13]

The problem with your (second) method is DivX converter isnt free.

 

[gamefan999]

The problem with your (second) method is DivX converter isnt free.

FairUse is an awesome, free DVD-to-DivX (or XviD) converter. I swear by it, and it is idiot-proof. Also will now rip for Video Ipod.

http://fairusewizard.com/

 

[Griffer]

And for mac?

....... Got the answer

Handbrake is pretty good for ripping dvds to xvid or mp4.

 

[telegramguy]

And for mac?

....... Got the answer

Handbrake is pretty good for ripping dvds to xvid or mp4.

This is another one of those frontends based on ffmpeg but actually has some really good settings. In addition, it does Flash (flv *and* swf) as well. But in the context of this thread, it's prett easy to convert to divx and has single click for switching to 320x240 and easy to use slider bar for quality. Plus it'll do batch mode. Sometimes I like to drag and drop a directory of videos regardless of source format and have it batch convert them all to small 320x240 divx files directly onto my SD card.

Great app.

 

[telegramguy]

This is another one of those frontends based on ffmpeg but actually has some really good settings. In addition, it does Flash (flv *and* swf) as well. But in the context of this thread, it's prett easy to convert to divx and has single click for switching to 320x240 and easy to use slider bar for quality. Plus it'll do batch mode. Sometimes I like to drag and drop a directory of videos regardless of source format and have it batch convert them all to small 320x240 divx files directly onto my SD card.

Great app.

Sorry. I wasn't writing about Handbrake although it's great for DVD ripping. My text was about VisualHub for converting videos to the gp2x:

http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/

 

[angus454]

... just a quick note of thanks for the instructions. I used DVDDecrypter and then MediaCoder to convert my first movie ( yes, legally owned movie ) last night and it works great. thanks again!

 

[piphil]

The problem with your (second) method is DivX converter isnt free.

FairUse is an awesome, free DVD-to-DivX (or XviD) converter. I swear by it, and it is idiot-proof. Also will now rip for Video Ipod.

http://fairusewizard.com/

This is exactly the sort of program I've been looking for - nice and easy, just rip the ISO with DVDDecrypter and stick it through FairUse. Very easy to use and no more faffing around with settings I don't really understand. I think this is mostly because the GP2X is less picky about file settings than the GP32, but anyway - thank you!

This method should really be stickied somewhere for newbies such as myself, as it's by far the least hassle-way of ripping DVDs to the GP2X

 

[Samba Pa Ti]

some nice tutorials here,

lately i have been converting dvd's to watch them on xbmc, i use dvd shrink (or dvd decrypter) to get the guts of the dvd onto the hard drive then AutoGK with the Xvid codec takes about 3 hours for 2 passes and it even removes the black bars automatically

 

[firefly2442]

AcidRip is another good program for the Linux users out there.