Fastest way to get dvd to your hard-drive

[Johan.]

Hi

My question is what is the fastest way to get my dvd to the hard-drive?

I want to be able to stream them to my ps3. The size of the files aren't a problem I just want to find the fastest way to get them down so I can start streaming. The only things I care about is that the quality of the picture and sound are intact and that it contains subs.

[setarip_old]

Hi!

Use a "ripping" program such as DVDFab HD Decrypter to remove copy protection and copy the entire DVD to your hard drive...

[Johan.]

Thanks for the suggestion. I have now tried autogk and automkv. Autogk did the encoding in 1 h 8 min for a 1.40 movie, automkv seems to do it a lot slower I would guess I end up near 2 hours for a 1.30 movie, it's running at the moment.

The concern is how good quality the movies get. Autogk gave the movie a size of 1,2 GB, I choosed 80 % quality. Will it go faster if I choose 100 %? When it doesn't has to "think" too much.

[setarip_old]

Your question (stated twice in your post) was My question is what is the fastest way to get my dvd to the hard-drive?What you have posted now refers to compressing and converting DVDs to different formats.

Which do you want to accomplish?

[Johan.]

As I stated in my first post is that I want to stream them to my ps3 from my hard-drive and it doesn't matter what format just the quality is the same as the source. I just want suggestions with what I can do it as fast as possible and keep the quality. Hard to find information about the speed.

I tried dvdfab and choosed their ps3 option and it seems that the time will end at 2 hours.

[dat720]

Kinda hard to give suggestions when even you don't know what you want!

If quality is your biggest concern leave the DVD's in their native format!!! or encode at very high quality/bitrate....

[Johan.]

Ok I give it another try.

That is true that I just could put the vob files together, but the problem with that is that I won't get the subs. So I want to know which encoder is the fastest to use, that keeps the quality and the sub.

As for now I think autogk is the best choice. Not as fast as I wish, but I guess 1-1.5 hour is good enough. I am testing if it works good with external subs and put them in with aviaddxsubs. That would be nice, so I can choice if I want subs or not.

[setarip_old]

I tried dvdfab and choosed their ps3 option and it seems that the time will end at 2 hours.Try using it (DVDFab HD Decrypter) to simply rip the DVD to your hard drive (NOT PS3 option). This will take about 15-30 minutes...

[Johan.]

Try using it (DVDFab HD Decrypter) to simply rip the DVD to your hard drive (NOT PS3 option). This will take about 15-30 minutes...

mm, I guess you have me on that one...

I'll change my question to:
Fastest way to get dvd to hard-drive so you can stream them to ps3 with subs!?

As I said before I think autogk is the best choice for this, and use aviaddxsubs to get the subs in to the file. The only problem I have now is that the subs is not in the correct position when I stream to ps3 though they are on the pc.

[dat720]

http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3media&thread.id=122546 - 2nd hit on google!

[Johan.]

Oh a thread of missunderstandings...

First just to clear out some things. I do know how to rip my dvd's and get it to my hard-drive and I do know what aviaddxsubs does. The problem with just ripping them I will lose the subs, no way to get that to work with ps3. And to be able to use aviaddxsubs I need to re-encode the dvd to xvid or other supported format.

All I wanted to know was how this could be done fast and smooth. And I quote my first post there are all the info:

I want to be able to stream them to my ps3. The size of the files aren't a problem I just want to find the fastest way to get them down so I can start streaming. The only things I care about is that the quality of the picture and sound are intact and that it contains subs.

And as it seems now autogk is the way. And I just need to figure out how aviaddxsubs works. Some movies it is correct while streaming and some only half of the text is shown. But on my pc always correct positioning.

So if you can suggest faster ways than autogk that would be appreciated.

[dat720]

aviaddxsubs is a subtitle multiplexer, not a reencoder!

[donburkard@temple]

DVD Shrink! Its fast, easy, and you can keep the quality. I suggest ripping them as .iso files. it keeps the structure of a dvd and menues and everything. To play them i use vlc player. its ugly but it works real well. both programs are free. Ive been researching this for three years and finally i figured it out. the software i mentioned above, an Unraid server(check this out, its the greatest thing ever!), and a good solid media pc with a br player. all hooked up in my theater. it is freakin sweet.

good luck

[donburkard@temple]

oh yea, also use anydvd, i forget if i had to pay for it or not but it opens dvds so they dont have region codes and all that other crap. it works well.

[jbeteinb]

setarip, Once you have your BD DVD on hard drive, and you don't want to TSmux, or ISO it, what is the way to play it directly from folder? If at all possible?

[setarip_old]

@jbeteinb

Hi!

This thread is about standard DVDs, not BluRay DVDs...

[dat720]

To play them i use vlc player. its ugly but it works real well. both programs are free.

He is trying to get the files to playback on a PS3..... PS3 cannot playback the contents of a ISO file!

[Johan.]

aviaddxsubs is a subtitle multiplexer, not a reencoder!

I know that, that is why I use autogk and add the subs with aviaddxsubs so I can choose to view the subs or not.

I have alot of problems though. Autogk wasn't as good as I thought. Some dvd's the sound and subtitles is messed up completely when I "burn" the subs. And when I add them with aviaddxsubs they show incorrectly in some movies.

So I guess the deal now is that I skip my concern of the time. All I want now is a way that works perfectly every time and no f**ck ups anymore. A big problem is that I want subtitles if not I had been good with those I tried.

No one here with a ps3 that know a way to do this perfect over and over again?

[DarkZell666]

Try this (get latest mencoder build here : http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php) :
mencoder -dvd-device "e:\VIDEO_TS" -alang jpn -slang en -vf pp=lb -ovc xvid -xvidencopts fixed_quant=2:threads=2:autoaspect -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=320 -o "yourMovieTadaaam.avi"

This isn't the absolute fastest, it's just the most appropriate speed/quality/filesize/compatibility compromise that came to my mind :)
I haven't tested it either, so you might have some quirks. Read this to tweak accordingly : http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html

[dat720]

Thats pretty much what i would have done.....

I think the answer to his question is hard coding the sub's exactly how he want's them rather than trying to force the PS3 to display them how he wants!

[Johan.]

Try this (get latest mencoder build here : http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php) :
mencoder -dvd-device "e:\VIDEO_TS" -alang jpn -slang en -vf pp=lb -ovc xvid -xvidencopts fixed_quant=2:threads=2:autoaspect -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=320 -o "yourMovieTadaaam.avi"

This isn't the absolute fastest, it's just the most appropriate speed/quality/filesize/compatibility compromise that came to my mind :)
I haven't tested it either, so you might have some quirks. Read this to tweak accordingly : http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html

Thank you, I will give it a try, once figured out it is probably the best.

What version of mencoder am I supposed to dl, I've a intelcore2duo?

[DarkZell666]

Thank you, I will give it a try, once figured out it is probably the best.

What version of mencoder am I supposed to dl, I've a intelcore2duo?

Use P4 version, or RTM if for any odd reason the P4 version doesn't work. They should all work, except the other builds are supposedly slower since not optimized for the correct CPU architecture :)