What Software To Encode DVD Rips?

[ShotgunSteven]

I want something that will look decent when played through a television, like if I get a chance to hook a laptop up to a TV while travelling or if I want to show the show to a friend and would rather haul a comp than the DVDs, but I do not need archival quality. That is what the DVDs are for. I do need somewhat small file sizes compared to the original rips, though.

I plan to use DVD Decrypter to rip them, but am undecided between encoding using DivX or XVid. If there is something out there that is better, I would not be amiss to using that either.

 

[AnyMal]

DVD Shrink let's you adjust compression ratio easily. Honestly, I can not tell the difference between movies compressed at 100% vs 60% on an analog CRT TV.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: AnyMal
DVD Shrink let's you adjust compression ratio easily. Honestly, I can not tell the difference between movies compressed at 100% vs 60% on an analog CRT TV.

So what does it do, leave them as a file that is technically a DVD file, just smaller?

Sorry if I am not using the right terminology, I have never done any of this before.

 

[Slick5150]

Gordion Knot will take a DVD and encode it to DivX or Xvid. It's fairly quick and simple to use.

Link

DVD Shrink works fine to get a DVD down to 4.7gb (small enough to fit on a DVD-R), but if you want to get down to 700mb, use Gordion Knot

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: Slick5150
Gordion Knot will take a DVD and encode it to DivX or Xvid. It's fairly quick and simple to use.

Link

DVD Shrink works fine to get a DVD down to 4.7gb (small enough to fit on a DVD-R), but if you want to get down to 700mb, use Gordion Knot

:thumbsup: I'd definitely go GK with XVid for what you want to do.

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

For beginners, try AutoGK. It's like Gordian Knot express.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

So what does DVD Shrink do, what format does it compress to, if that is the right way to put it?

 

[waitman]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
So what does DVD Shrink do, what format does it compress to, if that is the right way to put it?

It compresses the file and it will be a dvd format

 

[AnyMal]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
So what does DVD Shrink do, what format does it compress to, if that is the right way to put it?

It does not encode into a different format, you still get your normal .VOB files What it allows you to do is to "shrink" your DVD's by allowing you to remove any unneeded junk like extra menus, sound tracks, extras. It also allows you to compress DVD's to fit onto a regular DVD-R. If you are looking to encode to different format like Divx, look at tutorials over at www.dvdr.help

 

[kmmatney]

Use AutoGK with the XVid codec.

Edit: AutoGK for the most part requires that you use DVD Decrypter to rip the DVDs, so you should be OK.

 

[Umberger]

Originally posted by: kmmatney
Use AutoGK with the XVid codec.

Edit: AutoGK for the most part requires that you use DVD Decrypter to rip the DVDs, so you should be OK.

I wholeheartedly agree. Make sure you have DVD Decrypter in "IFO" mode. Then AutoGK works flawlessly. I love it.

 

[yukichigai]

Gordian Knot is indeed the bomb diggity. For general movies XviD seems to be the best, though for things with a lot of noise (e.g. VHS-rips) or cartoons/anime DivX 5 performs better most of the time. ('bout half the time with Anime, 90% of the time with noisy crap)

I also recommend encoding using the Matroska (mkv) file format. It lets you use a lot of different audio/video types, even has support for video-embedded aspect ratio settings. (e.g. encode video at 720x480 and have it play back at 4:3 or 16:9) Not to mention that the overhead -- the amount of the file that just says where the video is, audio is, etc -- is a lot lower with Matroska than other formats.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: Umberger

Originally posted by: kmmatney
Use AutoGK with the XVid codec.

Edit: AutoGK for the most part requires that you use DVD Decrypter to rip the DVDs, so you should be OK.

I wholeheartedly agree. Make sure you have DVD Decrypter in "IFO" mode. Then AutoGK works flawlessly. I love it.

I just used the default settings, I have no idea what IFO mode is.

 

[Umberger]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
I just used the default settings, I have no idea what IFO mode is.

Possible that IFO was the default. I just know that's the mode it wants. Something to do with the structure that it outputs.

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

Originally posted by: yukichigai
Gordian Knot is indeed the bomb diggity. For general movies XviD seems to be the best, though for things with a lot of noise (e.g. VHS-rips) or cartoons/anime DivX 5 performs better most of the time. ('bout half the time with Anime, 90% of the time with noisy crap)

Hmm, didn't know that about DivX 5. I've been having a hard time getting decent XviD results for Monty Pyton and the Holy Grail DVD, which is pretty grainy. Time to schedule a re-encode soon...

 

[ng12345]

you would reccomend gordian knot over flaskmpeg? ... flaskmpeg will deal with files that you didn't necessarily burn in the ifo format just fine ... which is great for dvds that you already have archived on your hd