Problems by ripping with Super DVD Ripper

[gamedale]

Hello, everyone.

I'm new here and I've never ripped any DVDs before - this is why probably my question will be a bit trivial. Anyway, I would be appreciated if someone could advise me on the process described below and told me how to solve my problem:

I was considering to purchase DVD ripping software and obviously began with checking out all of those trial-versions available for evaluation. One of those that I found quite easy to use is Super DVD Ripper. When I select a general option "DVD to AVI", I have to tell the prog which encoding would I like to use. Okay, I have installed DIVX Codec 5.0.5, selected it, then proceeded with ripping.

Everything seemed to be fine, but strangely the movie was coded this way - 5 minutes SUPER quality, then a couple of minutes of REALLY BAD quality, and so on.

PLEASE, anyone who has used Super DVD Ripper - could you tell me what am I doing wrong and which settings in DIVX Codec should I change in order to get a permanently GOOD stable quality of the whole ripped movie.

If there are any other EASY TO USE programmes that you find better than Super DVD Ripper - I would also appreciate a link.

[killingspree]

hi and welcome to the forum,

sorry i've never heard about super DVD ripper, but honestly - judging from your problems i think i haven't missed anything (:

it seems that you have gotten some divx setting wrong or have probably just selected a too low bitrate. i can't judge that without seeing your actual settings in connection with knowing what movie you tried to encode.

personally i would recommend robot4rip and gordianknot to you. those are a little harder to learn but they are complete freeware and are known to pretty much yield the best results.
download it here:
Rip Pack (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gordianknot/GordianKnot.RipPack.0.28.Setup.exe?download)
rip pack update (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gordianknot/GordianKnot.RipPack.0.28.2.Beta2.Update.Setup.exe?download)
Codec Pack (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gordianknot/GordianKnot.CodecPack.1.1.exe?download)

and here's the respective guide (http://www.doom9.org/gknot-main3.htm)

hope this helps
steVe

[gamedale]

Thanks a lot for your reply, Killingspree. I was already presuming that Super DVD Ripper is not the best choice. ;) I will definitely have a look at what you've suggested and most likely come up soon with more questions on this wonderful forum. :D