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22 Jul 2003, 1:27am

(IMAGE INTENSIVE) Tutorial: Ripping DVDs to DiVX

Thrax's DVD2DiVX Tutorial
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Thrax edited : 10 Aug 2003 at 10:22am .
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22 Jul 2003, 1:30am
great guide, keep it up
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22 Jul 2003, 1:32am
Wow, very informative.

Thanks dude!
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22 Jul 2003, 1:37am
Great, not can it be burned? I see you set it to 1400mb: 700*2?
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22 Jul 2003, 1:40am
It can be split, but none of the programs listed can split it. I can add a little to it and include the instructions to split it, but not really necessary as it's hard to properly split DiVX files.
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22 Jul 2003, 2:19am
"Of all of these methods, reducing the sound quality to 128kbps and reducing the resolution to another integer with the same aspect ratio (The Matrix is 2.04:1, so 720x352 could be reduced to 512x256).
Whats the end of this thought?

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22 Jul 2003, 2:23am
are the best options."

Edited it.
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22 Jul 2003, 2:27am
OK how about a DIVx guide to burning AVI files. I could use some of my ~50gb of movies back.
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22 Jul 2003, 2:40am
It's actually just as easy as using a program called AVI chopper, and setting the breakpoint of the file at a certain size. However AVI files use something called keyframes which are used to fast-forward through the picture. If you cut an AVI in half, it cuts at the keyframe and usually you get one file that fits on a CD, and another that doesn't.

If you make the file 1300MB (2 x 650), you can alleviate this, but the quality would suffer.
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22 Jul 2003, 2:56am
You have encode them anyway so they would play as a DVD.
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22 Jul 2003, 3:01am
Right. Unless you own one of the DiVX-capable KiSS players, you'd need to reencode the DiVX as an xVCD-Compliant MPEG2 file.....Which is another tutorial I plan on doing.
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22 Jul 2003, 3:03am
OK thats what I would like. There are ones out there but are not that good to complete n00bs like myself.
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22 Jul 2003, 6:27am
Good guide, Thrax.

What about hosting this off the Short-Media site as an article?

And could you link some places to get the needed programs? Sure, we can track them down, but that'd take effort .
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22 Jul 2003, 6:36am
Nice, Thrax. I'm looking forward to the follow-on tutorial now.
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22 Jul 2003, 7:06am
I will pass a revision of the article (Program links) + DVD2DVD-R before 9 PM EDT on July 23rd.
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Thrax edited : 23 Jul 2003 at 3:07am .
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22 Jul 2003, 3:43pm
Thrax....

Great guide! 2 questions....

1) Is the AC3 track the full Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track or just the 2.0 Dolby Surround track? The reason I ask is that I know you can rip the 2.0 Dolby Surround track with the video but 5.1, in some cases, has to be ripped separately then merried back to a video rip.


2) Can I post these guides?
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22 Jul 2003, 6:15pm
From what I can TELL with my own ears, it seems to be full 5.1, HOWEVER I'm not quite certain if that's true. According to the program it IS ripping 6 channel AC3, and AC3 DOES support 6 individual channels...So it's possible, but I'm technically uncertain.

When I'm done with all three guides (revised, etc) you can post them.

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Program links added, the DVD2DiVX is finalised.
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23 Jul 2003, 3:07am
Thrax,
what would you recommend for a multi-episode DVD like Rurouni Kenshin, Friends, etc... which have several episodes on a single DVD as opposed to a single movie DVD?
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23 Jul 2003, 3:08am
I'll pop in one of the DVDs from The Prisoner DVD collection and see how DVD Decrypter handles multiple-episode discs.

give me some time.
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23 Jul 2003, 4:34am
Dude,
beggars like myself can't be choosy, thanks for the advice.
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23 Jul 2003, 5:06pm

Thrax

That's great. I'd like the raw HTML and pics emailed to me please. Of course I'd like you to disclaimer each and every article that this is to "back up your original store bought copies of DVDs"

heheheh.
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30 Jul 2003, 1:32am
Hey Preacher;

I updated the document to include information on ripping DVDs with multiple episodes on it.


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This guide is done, I'll be sending it out to you tomorrow, MM.
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30 Jul 2003, 1:47am
Yet again, I and my Anime monkey (who usually rests on my back) thank you!

It may just be me, Thrax, but the picture attached after this phrase "Ripping the DVD (Multiple movie track discs):" doesn't download. All I see is a placeholder X. Anybody else?
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7 Aug 2003, 11:36pm

Outstanding!

Great guide dude,
I've been wrestling with digital video for a little while now myself. What an adventure. I gotta tell ya though, the thing that impressed me most was the disclaimer. I mean that without slighting your guide at all. I pride myself on having a strong command of the language and enjoy strutting my stuff on occasion (an example ) and in that spirit would like to express my appreciation for a fellow student of proper elocution. Mediaman and I had this discourse a while ago as well. Sorry for the aside.
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10 Aug 2003, 10:19am
I'm a fan of using what I know when apt.

Thank you for the kind words.
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