how do i transform DVD in DIVX, so i can take them in my laptop when i travel next week?

[mmx]

Wanted to put about 20 dvd's into my 60gig HD, so i can watch movies without having to shlep 20 dvd's wth me.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

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[Gooberlx2]

Doom9's site is definitely THE place to go.

Also, with the latest DIVX codec release I've heard their Dr. DIVX program isn't too bad. It does everything for you, but I don't know what kind of control you get to maintain over the passes/bitrate/audio codec, etc...

 

[jhu]

if you have linux (or other unix), mplayer/mencoder is free although it has a steep learning curve. it's mostly just entering commands into the command-line.

 

[Gunbuster]

I would just use DVD shrink to dump stripped down VOBs to the HDD

 

[Gurck]

I've tried a few and prefer Gordian Knot. I haven't tried autoGK (a fully automated version of it) as I prefer having more control over the process - the learning curve isn't steep though. There's a tutorial for doing it with GK on doom9. Note that the process isn't exactly fast; a 2pass encoding job generally takes me about double the length of the video; ie. a 2 hour movie will take 4 hours to encode. This is on a p4b 2.67 - it's almost entirely cpu-dependant, and it's generally agreed that Intels are faster at this.

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: Gunbuster
I would just use DVD shrink to dump stripped down VOBs to the HDD

Originally posted by: mmx
Wanted to put about 20 dvd's into my 60gig HD, so i can watch movies without having to shlep 20 dvd's wth me.

not gonna fit.

doom9 is great, also check out dvdrhelp.com for more tutorials.

 

[Legendary]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
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A new Jokersmoker clone bot?

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: iamme

Originally posted by: Gunbuster
I would just use DVD shrink to dump stripped down VOBs to the HDD

Originally posted by: mmx
Wanted to put about 20 dvd's into my 60gig HD, so i can watch movies without having to shlep 20 dvd's wth me.

not gonna fit.

doom9 is great, also check out dvdrhelp.com for more tutorials.

He's going to DivX them to fit.

20 x 700Mb = 14Gb = you suck at teh maths.

 

[Gurck]

He was referring to Gunbuster's post.

 

[NTB]

GKnot is good; I've used it many times. Probably the easiest way to do it though is another program called Fair Use. That said, GKnot may also be faster. I know it was compared to the older versions of FU, not sure about the newer ones.

Nate

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: jhu
if you have linux (or other unix), mplayer/mencoder is free although it has a steep learning curve. it's mostly just entering commands into the command-line.

Yep, plus you have your selection of Divx, Xvid, and Libavcodec's for creating your mpeg4 avi files.

Of course for best possible results libavcodec. It's faster and better quality then either Divx or Xvid.

And their are GUI front ends that you can use if you don't like dealing with command line switches.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

i found doom 9 to be little to in depth.......dr dix free trial worked for me, so good i then actually bought it, and i play the divx's on my kiss dvd player, and you wouldnt know the difference

 

[notfred]

You don't have time to rip and convert 20 DVDs to Divx by next week, especially since you have to learn how to do it, so you'll probably mess up a couple times at first.

 

[krackato]

AutoGK is great. I doubt you have time to rip that many DVDs, but good luck.

For AutoGK, all you do is rip the DVD using DVDDecrypter in ifo mode, put it into AutoGK, choose your audio track, choose how big you want the file, decide if you want xvid or divx 5 (xvid is the way to go imo), and hit go. It really couldn't be easier. It has excellent quality.

I used to also be a big Vidomi advocate, but sadly they haven't updated that program in like 2 years and it's way behind the times.

 

[jhu]

Originally posted by: drag

Originally posted by: jhu
if you have linux (or other unix), mplayer/mencoder is free although it has a steep learning curve. it's mostly just entering commands into the command-line.

Yep, plus you have your selection of Divx, Xvid, and Libavcodec's for creating your mpeg4 avi files.

Of course for best possible results libavcodec. It's faster and better quality then either Divx or Xvid.

And their are GUI front ends that you can use if you don't like dealing with command line switches.

are there? i've always just entered the commands manually. of course, i also tend to do a divx conversion en masse.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: Gurck
He was referring to Gunbuster's post.

In that case, I suck at teh reading

 

[Whitecloak]

Fairuse