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Fridolino
14th April 2002, 13:31
Hello everybody,

Iīm sorry for my bad English, but for a German itīs ok ;-)

At first: Iīm an absolutely newbie in these DVD-backup-things, so donīt laugh too loud over me.

1.) I have ripped to DVDīs ("HeartBreaker" and a knight movie, which English name I donīt know at the moment. German name: "Ritter aus Leiderschaft") with DVD Decrypter 3.17 but entered in the Decrypter settings "Merge the VOBs". Now I donīt arrive to get the ripped data as divx-avi to burn on two cds. (I said Iīm a Newbie ;-)
- Which programs do I need?
- Which settings shall I choose in it?
I tried Xmpeg 4.5 but I believe the program has problems with the merged VOBs. And the knight movie was _very_ unsharp. And the heartbreaker was stretched (wrong ratio?). I think I had some mistakes in the settings, but I didnīt arrive to do it correct. I tried several, to crop the bars away, to take other divx versions (or no compression)...
Apropos: Now at the moment I only have the ripped VOBs so I canīt rip it again with another program or donīt merge it.

2.) I tried to backup my Sleepers-DVD (2:20 hours long). Which program shall I choose as a Newbie looking for normal results (not the PERFECT backup). I used gordian knot, but became two ac3-files and didnīt arrive to merge the two ac3 with the avi in Nandub. Which settings do I have to choose at audio in gordian knot. Is there a possibility to mp3encode (128 or 160) it in the divx-avi easily.

The quality doesnīt have to be outstanding and the speed of the whole action is not important for me (perhaps over night?), because I only backup one dvd a month and the backup quality doesnīt have to be to show it in cinema. I only need a simple normal backup.

My PC: Athlon Thunderbird 1200, 384 MB RAM, 30 GB HardDisk, LiteOn DVD 16x.
I tried DVDx 1.8a, Xmpeg4.5, FlaskMpeg, GordianKnot, DVD2AVI 1.76 alone...

Thanks in advance.

Fridolino from Germany

llemor
15th April 2002, 02:17
I recommend to use the following freeware:
1) SmartRipper - for ripping VOBs and save to your hard drive
2) DVD2AVI - to decode the video and ac3 audio
3) GKnot - to prepare the avs file for VirtualDub/NanDub encoding

You can download the Doom9 ripping package. All programs that I
mentioned above are there. And last but not least you have to read
the tutorials of Doom9. Here's the link:
http://www.doom9.org/divx4-avs-main-htm

Are you using DivX 4.12 codec? Better to use this codec rather than
DivX 5.0 for a newbie like me.

good luck!!!
:)

PeterTheMaster
15th April 2002, 17:49
read forum rules point 1) !

and if i had such a small hdd id use vstrip to
only rip what i need.