movies too dark

[jon1101]

I've recently started an effort to encode my DVD collection with DivX6 pro in order to make it more manageable when I return to school, and I would like to sort out a problem getting too far into it. I've noticed that, for my first two rips, I need to adjust my brightness and contrast settings quite a bit or else the video is too dark to watch. This is frustrating because the actual DVDs look just fine. After changing the color settings, DVDs are too bleached to watch, and so I am constantly changing settings.

I'm very new to DVD ripping and am not sure at which step in the process this darkening takes place. What do I need to change to make my rips brighter? Thanks

-Jon

[jon1101]

I've spent some time reading about the issue today and am wondering: is DivX6 six worse than XviD at maintaining the brightness of the original source? Could I solve the problem just by switching codecs?

-Jon

[joenova]

I don;t have any experience with using DivX Professional or Doctor DivX, but you may be better off just using the free method which involves two parts: Ripping the DVD to your hard drive in it's raw format, then converting that to Xvid or DivX using AutoGK. The instructions are in the Doom9.org guides and is very easy to do.

[jon1101]

I've been using Robot for Rip and Gordian Knot so far, and have read through the guides here on Doom9. I just meant that I've been encoding them with the DivX Pro codec as opposed to the others that GK supports, but I guess I wasn't very clear on that.

-Jon