DVD archiving and batch encoding to divX/Xvid?

[myname]

Hi

I am looking for a way to archive my DVDs on my HD. Some players can play DVD .iso files and there are also media centres available, that can play .iso files. So saving all DVD in a .iso container seems to be a good solution.
But I also need to convert the DVDs to divx or xvid because I want to play them on my archos (mobile video player).
Is there a way to batch encode DVD .iso containers to divX ?
Or any other solution how I could reach my goal of archiving my DVDs (without further losses) and transcoding the movies to divX?
Thank you!

[[P]ako]

With ISOs you will have to mount then in virtual drives created with daemontools or Alcohol 120, and from the there you can just follow about any guide that covers the conversion from DVD to avi with dgindex, avisynth and virtualdub or megui. Virtualdub and megui can queue up encoding jobs.

[myname]

Thank you for your answer.
But this approach still involves mounting every iso as virtual DVD and create every single encoding job. I have about 200 DVD, so this involves quite some work. Is there also a less labor-intensive solution available? It does not necessarily need to be the iso container, if there exists a better suited container format.

[mousemurder]

+1 xvidenc ( http://xvidenc.sourceforge.net/ ) - divexenc ( http://divxenc.sourceforge.net/ )

[myname]

looks promising, thank you. But linux only. is there also a windows tool or do i have to virualise a linux..?
do you use this script? does it need any user interaction in case of a dvd with menus?

[[P]ako]

You may want to try fairuse wizard.

[mousemurder]

looks promising, thank you. But linux only. is there also a windows tool or do i have to virualise a linux..?
do you use this script? does it need any user interaction in case of a dvd with menus?

i use it alot. it basically prompts you for input about bitrate, framerate, telecine pullup, ... and it prints out the command-line so you can save it and run it next time without being prompted the same questions.

[dat720]

AlienMind posted a very nice VBS script not long ago which uses mplayer/mencoder to dump/convert a DVD to a bunch of MKV's his original script used 2 pass h264, attempts to autocrop the videos (gets it right most of the time, but left about 8 pixels top and bottom of my Top Gun PAL DVD) and it uses aac for the audio, i modified it to suit my needs, different h264 settings, eac3to to convert the audio track to ac3 and added some smarts at the start of the script which scans available DVD drives, and gets the Movie name from the title of the disc.... some discs are named odd but it works most of the time.

Look here for his script (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=143169)

[mousemurder]

... But linux only...

another idea you can install a live-cd/dvd or live-usb used only for ripping.

+1 knoppix-live-cd or fedora-live-usb

[dat720]

or you could just pick cross platform programs......