I'd say it's more useful for kids movies that you don't want destroyed, since the orignial will almost always be of better quality (never worse, but equal on occasion) - if you're just keeping the avi rips on your comp or fileserver, it's absolutely pointless.
While it's meant to replace the DVD driver to completely hide region coding, CSS, etc, it has a nice side-effect of stopping Sony rootkits before they start I had a couple of movies cough on me without AnyDVD going (RE2 may have been one of them, House of Flying Daggers as well IIRC) but generally the two alone are sufficient. Some movies just refuse to rip properly without AnyDVD. You lose surround and quality, but it'll be a small file. If you do 1CD 700MB output with MP3 audio, it'll do a two-pass encode (% quality is done one-pass). However, I've found that AutoGK+DVD Decrypter is definitely the easiest solution, and possibly the best. I seem to remember having troubles with RE2 as well. Of course, the only reason to transcode to that size is to burn it to CD, and you'll only find mediocre support for avi files on standalone players and probably zero for h.264 on current ones.Ĭlick to expand. Didn't realize you were talking about 700mb transcodes. You sound different than I'd have imagined Love how it's you in left channel and -H- (?) in the right channel from what I've listened to so far.
I'd bet what happened is that you a) selected 'No Audio Track' b) don't have ac3filter/ffdshow installed c) have your speakers turned off or d) somehow managed to rip the movie without an audio track.īindi, are you trying to make the video better than the source? My method takes at the very most two hours and gives something identical to the source.
Obviously, select the correct audio track from the dropdown menu in Step 2.
If you've got a 5.1 setup, it may take some tweaking to get right, especially if you're trying to get it to spit out digital to an external decoder.
If you've got a standard 2.0/2.1ch setup, just install AC3Filter or ffdshow (google them, you only need one). Not just with quality - you lose channels. avi souce and avoid that problem, though.ĭon't use MP3 audio, you'll eventually regret it. I'd suggest manually ripping out all of the audio modes but the one you want if you do this, as you can't select which one you want and I managed to encode Robin Hood Men in Tights in French or something. I'd suggest the "Movie 0h-2h" profile, as it gives pretty high image quality with reasonable filesize (first two Austin Powers movies ~450MB each, not bad for 90mins of video). I'm sure there are other options, but it's easy enough. *cough cough*You may need Slysoft's AnyDVD for some newer movies*cough*Įdit - oh yeah, if you want to rip movies to an iPod, use Videora iPod converter. Of course, only do this on non-CSS protected discs. I then use Winamp5 with ffdshow to play the files (I used to use ac3 filter, but it doesn't seem to agree with my DDL setup) vob files are huge (up to 8.5gb, amazingly enough).
avi files (2-3gb range typically) and have to have about ten gigs of free space while working as the original.
S/PDIF passthrough to my external decoder (seems iffy with dts soundtracks, but the last time I tried it my setup was pretty different iirc) with the picture identical to the original, at a third of the size.
I rip my movies to my comp with the first solution, at full width and "100% quality" and original audio. Makes for the best picture, especially seeing that the MPEG-2 (?) that standard DVDs use sucks relative to everything else, but a lossless Xvid is pointless for most standalone players. I personally rip out everything but the movie and the best audio track so I can have the least (sometimes none at all) compression. 1:1 if you have a small movie or dual layer media, or recompress to fit a SL disk. Also great if you want to burn smaller files to CDs, though not all players support it, and DVD burners and media are cheap enough that it's fairly stupid to use that much compression.ĭVDShrink for DVD to DVD copying. For ripping movies to watch on the comp, no better way.