Methods of batch encoding.

[kilivipin]

I am planning on converting all of my family Guy dvd's to xvid using AutoGK.
I feel that there are two ways of going about it. I can rip the individual episodes using DVDdecryptor and encode this way, or... I can make an .iso of the dvd's and just use file mode to encode the individual vobs. The latter solution will make things a lot easier for me.
Seeing as i do not want subtitles, and each episode has its own .vob, are there any disadvantages to the "file mode" method that I should know about?

[CWR03]

Yes, you'll end up with one file with all the episodes on the DVD in it. File mode will not separate them. ISO will not work with AutoGK either; only IFO will give you the individual episodes.

[zacoz]

If each episode is in it's own VTS, and you rip each disc to a different subdirectory, then there is nothing wrong with using FILE mode. Each episode will be able to setup within a batch in AGK. I do this myself.

It's only when multiple episodes are in the one VTS, that I rip in IFO mode.

You don't want to be ripping in ISO mode or making ISO's to then try to use as input to AGK - a waste of time and you can't use an ISO as direct input into AGK as CWR03 points out.