DVD to DV

[neo1]

I have been capturing movies from my satelite dish to DV format which takes about 25 GB. I then edit and then compress with TMPGEnc.

What is the best program to rip a DVD to DV format?

Thanks much.

[Guest]

Use Smart Ripper or DVD Decrypter to rip the VOBs (MPEG2) to your PC. Then use DGMPGDec to decode the VOBs and serve them via Avisynth. Then reencode using VirtualDub.

Can't say what is "best", but it works well for me.

[killingspree]

may i ask why you want to convert DVD to DV??

cheers
steVe

[neo1]

Originally posted by killingspree
may i ask why you want to convert DVD to DV??

cheers
steVe

I often edit the material and I like to do this in a compression format that has little loss and that works with my editing program (ULead). I find that TMPGEnc gives me the smallest file size with the best quality. I store on large external hard drives rather than DVDs.

neo

[killingspree]

have you heard of/considered huffyuv??

[neo1]

Originally posted by killingspree
have you heard of/considered huffyuv??

I have heard of huffyuv. I do not know much about it. Does it work with ULead and TMPGEnc? DV only uses about 6x compression and I cannot see any difference from my satellite signal.

neo

[killingspree]

huffyuv is actually a lossless video compression! Still it uses 3x (iirc) less space than uncompressed video. So the editing step will not cost you any quality!

It does work with TmpegEnc for sure, but i do not know about Ulead. Anyway, I wouldn't expect any problems though! But perhaps you'd like to try!

cheers
steVe

[neo1]

steve

If it is 3x then a typical movie takes up about 50 GB? Not sure if I have that much room as that is 100 GB with editing. I would like to check it out. Where can I find it?

neo

[killingspree]

true... files sizes get pretty damn large :) so you better have a lot of empty but fast hard disk space!

anyway, you can download it here (http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/Codecs/huffyuv_220.zip)

cheers