Best method to rip tv series

[moviemandvd]

Tv series disc are always weird video formats. You always get horizontal lines through the video because its not film or ntsc. its a mix between the 2. whats the best method to rip a tv series dvd such as "Sex in the City"? thanks

[dragoman]

Hi,

I have zero experience encoding svcds, but with DivX I have done a few tv series, the Simpsons (whole other thing cause it's animated), The Sopranos, The X-files (in progress), and HBO's Band of Brothers.

These are all broadcast in what I call a "hybrid" form, part interlaced (usually in high action scenes) and part film, or progressive frame.

What I do when encoding these is set dvd2avi settings to "ForceFilm", which automatically removes any interlaced material while not affecting the progressive material.

I have had absolutely no problems with this at all, and great results...

Incidentally, a two-pass encode on a X-file episdoe (45min) produces almost spot on 300MB size with 950kb/sec bitrate. Audio encoded at 160 kb/sec gives almost spot on 350MB per ep, which is what I was aiming for....and DivX5Pro is awesome quality.

dragoman

[moviemandvd]

well i previewed the vob files in dvd2avi and checked force film and the lines where still there! any other suggestions anyone? change image quality or what not?

[markrb]

Try using a de-interlace method or force IVTC. I have never had this problem, even though I have ripped many TV shows.

If they are originally NTSC and you are going to play them on an NTSC TV then try shutting FF off. The shows are originally 29.976 FPS so they should be fine encoded at that rate.

Mark

[moviemandvd]

Analyzing DVD2AVI Project file
Hybrid Film activated. IVTC will beformed and will slow down the entire process!
Framerate: 29970
DVD2AVI processing done.

different framrate! any other suggestions, or still try those? thanks

[moviemandvd]

anyone?

[markrb]

Have you actually tried them yet? Don't repost until you have something more to offer. You have been given several things to try why don't you try them?

Mark

[badbert]

ThanxMarkRB. This was the first interlaced/hybrid Rip I have done. I tried D2S on auto-Pilot. And got snagged by the,

Analyzing DVD2AVI Project file
Hybrid Film activated. IVTC will beformed and will slow down the entire process!
Framerate: 29970
DVD2AVI processing done

I think that I experienced some weird "Crash", though. Because when it got to CCE doing the VAF file, I was getting speeds of .018 to .020. I have Dual MP1600s, and usually get speeds in the 1.8 to 2.5 range. Please forgive me for hastily deleting the LOG file. I deleted everything, so I could start over and do a manual encode.
I used DVD2AVI manually and ripped it to DiVX5.02Pro, with no problems. I then used VDubMod to mux the AVI with the AC3 file that DVD2AVI had extracted. I then fed the muxxed file into D2S and that's where I am now. It is working, but I am worried, the speeds are still comparatively slow. Right now just using simple resize I am getting .980 where I would expect twice that. I suspect the compressibility of this file may be low. The DVDs seem noisy too me. I would really like to use Pixiedust and C3D to clean them up, but with speeds like this, 10 parts could take forever....

Any suggestions?

And thanx again for answering this post (so long ago), the search button really does work!! I will try the next one on auto-pilot with force film turned on. I didn't know you could change the settings in D2S, I don't see that DVD2AVI tab too often. I use AVI2SVCD mostly.

[markrb]

IVTC is a serious resource hog and will slow you way down.
If you have added any other filters they will slow you down as well.

Your speed does seem very slow, but if it only happens with IVTC material I wouldn't worry.

Mark

[badbert]

Thanx markrb, it worked perfectly. The speeds were slow, but steady. I converted Part 2 on autopilot, turning on force film in D2S. This fixed the IVTC problem. And speeds were around 1.2 (respectable). I deleted the encode of Part 1 I mentioned previously, and am re-encoding it on Autopilot, so far so good it is half-way through the MPV and giving me 1.2.

On a side-bar note, I think I have discovered the problem, with these discs. In the beginning of the movie they do interviews with the actual people the movie is about. I think that these segments are different than the actual movie. After the encode,(and viewing in PowerDVD) I notice some (for lack of a better term) de-interlace lines, on the real people. But when I play the discs on my Apex 5131, they simply are not there...they play beautifully, And except for the absence of menus and extras, it is very hard to tell that you are not watching the original. I guess DVD2SVCD really does encode DVDs as well as AVIs. :)