Shadowsithe
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Okay, this is a story about my ordeals with ripping and encoding. I hope it serves as an alternative tutorial for those looking to try something else. The end result should be a wonderful xvid encoded *.avi file.
You will need:
DVD Decrypter
DVD Shrink
Auto Gordian Knot aka AutoGK
Why:
DVD Decrypter - is for creating an image of your DVD that you can encode. This will work around any region protection or CSS or other copy protections on your DVD.
DVD Shrink - is for cutting out the useless things that you don't want to confuse your encoder. Now for me, this is generally alternate angles which juxtapose themselves into the main video jumbling things horribly.
Auto Gordian Knot - will be making the actual encoding easy. Trust me.
Slap your desired DVD to rip into your principle drive and whip open DVD Decrypter. Specify the region if asked, otherwise just select everything if you don't want to figure out what the actual bulk of the DVD is. That will be DVD Shrink's job.
After about say twenty minutes, depending on the DVD you should have a folder in your C:\ drive with an appropriate name.
Open DVD Shrink and click Open Files. Navigate to the VIDEO_TS folder inside of your DVD folder sitting in your C:\ drive. Click main video. Select no compression. Then click reauthor. Select only the main video file. Click backup and select to folder.
Ten minutes later, you have a pretty set of *.vobs to encode. Open Auto GK. At the top, select the second *.ifo file from the new backup you've created. Below that select a place to save your new avi. From here it's just tinkering with settings.
As for size, generally a one hour show is 350mb so base your number on that. Don't use the CD selection because you'll have the file split over multiple discs. Go to advanced settings and select xvid, and auto for everything else. Now hit CTRL+F9 and you'll get a new options menu. If you're encoding a cartoon, select cartoon mode. Set the framerate to NTSC and confirm. Add job and start. In an hour or two you'll be done. I'll edit this for more detail when it's not so late.
You will need:
DVD Decrypter
DVD Shrink
Auto Gordian Knot aka AutoGK
Why:
DVD Decrypter - is for creating an image of your DVD that you can encode. This will work around any region protection or CSS or other copy protections on your DVD.
DVD Shrink - is for cutting out the useless things that you don't want to confuse your encoder. Now for me, this is generally alternate angles which juxtapose themselves into the main video jumbling things horribly.
Auto Gordian Knot - will be making the actual encoding easy. Trust me.
Slap your desired DVD to rip into your principle drive and whip open DVD Decrypter. Specify the region if asked, otherwise just select everything if you don't want to figure out what the actual bulk of the DVD is. That will be DVD Shrink's job.
After about say twenty minutes, depending on the DVD you should have a folder in your C:\ drive with an appropriate name.
Open DVD Shrink and click Open Files. Navigate to the VIDEO_TS folder inside of your DVD folder sitting in your C:\ drive. Click main video. Select no compression. Then click reauthor. Select only the main video file. Click backup and select to folder.
Ten minutes later, you have a pretty set of *.vobs to encode. Open Auto GK. At the top, select the second *.ifo file from the new backup you've created. Below that select a place to save your new avi. From here it's just tinkering with settings.
As for size, generally a one hour show is 350mb so base your number on that. Don't use the CD selection because you'll have the file split over multiple discs. Go to advanced settings and select xvid, and auto for everything else. Now hit CTRL+F9 and you'll get a new options menu. If you're encoding a cartoon, select cartoon mode. Set the framerate to NTSC and confirm. Add job and start. In an hour or two you'll be done. I'll edit this for more detail when it's not so late.
