One click DVD to xvid?

[siyan]

I've got a ton of DVDs, and very little time / patience to go about the ripping process. I'd like to set up a media-center PC with the usual features but also with some way to just shove in a DVD, press a button, and go to sleep so that the next morning my DVD is nicely ripped into XIVD and saved onto the HD or a networked fileserver.

Is it possible to get reasonable quality rips from a single-click solution? Also would I have to look at some kind of alternative to Windows MCE? (I'm not sure how much "other software" you can use on MCE).

 

[Queasy]

Check out FairUse Wizard. Probably comes the closest to what you are looking for.

 

[mundane]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Check out FairUse Wizard. Probably comes the closest to what you are looking for.

It doesn't get much easier. :thumbsup:

 

[TheRyuu]

AutoGK is free and it does the same thing.

http://www.autogk.me.uk/

Yes, FairUse is also free right??

I guess try em both.
AutoGK doesn't have the 700mb limit if it really bothers you that much.

 

[LiekOMG]

Don't forget Handbrake!

 

[JackBurton]

Very nice list. Is FairUse multithreaded?

 

[Noema]

Interesting. Tagged for later.

 

[cw42]

AutoGK is good.

 

[TheRyuu]

Originally posted by: JackBurton
Very nice list. Is FairUse multithreaded?

Only if you buy it I think.

Also, AutoGK might be multithreaded but it uses Virtual Dub Mod to do the encoding, so if thats multithreading then I guess so.

 

[themisfit610]

XviD is multithreaded, so anything that uses it can take advantage of multithreading.

AviSynth (A component of AutoGK) is not multithreaded. There are unofficial versions that are, but it's a little unstable still.

So, you may not get 100% CPU utilization, but it shouldn't be a big deal with a standard dual core system.... 16 core quad Xeons might not get fully used though

You can get acceptable quality with a good one click app like AutoGK, but IMO it's worth the time to spend an extra ~10 minutes setting things up. You can get transparent results using MeGUI at less than half the size of the original DVD. I usually do 1/2 DVD-R sized rips - ~2200MB. MeGUI can use x264, and allows you to manually tune the AviSynth script to improve compressibility, and has a very advanced profile system that uses XML. It's a fantastic application.

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~MiSfit

 

[country2]

Is AutoGK still being updated? I see nothing newer than from 2005. No updates or anything and even the beta is from 2005.

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: cw42
AutoGK is good.

:thumbsup:

 

[Tsaico]

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