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How
to rip a DVD to DivX 4.12 using DVDx (Old Version)
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| XviD is a codec that is getting more
and more popular in the video community, especially after DivX
became commercial. Of course that was not the only reason, as
in the latest versions quality and speed have improved very
much, so that we can now say that XviD is not only as good as
DivX is, but even better than it. In this guide we will use
DVDx for encoding, and the Koepi build of the codec, which seems
to be the most popular and you can find here. Let's go! |
This is DVDx 2.2, a very nice and free program. First click
at the highlighted icon to select the source of the video wo
want to encode.
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Now we select the VIDEO_TS folder
of the DVD we want to rip. Sometimes DVDx does this automatically
for us so we proceed to next step. |
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Here you have to select the Title
which has the BIGGEST length. In our situation it is Title01.
Highlight it and then click select. Don't worry about the other
ones, they are just intros or ads of the movie. |
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After we select the right Title this
window comes up. Make sure Angle is set to 1. Check Use ASPI
and DeMacrovision. At Key Search once must be OK, if you encounter
problems you can try Each VOB ID or Each VOB/CELL ID. At subtitle
select none for no subtitle or select the language your want.
At Audio select Doldy Surround and select the track you want.
At Output Frame Rate select the right values for PAL and NTSC.
Also check Forse 24Hz if your DVD is NTSC. At Misc select the
Audio / Video synchronisation and select Shutdown the computer
when job is done if you want the computer to automatically shutdown
after the encoding. In iDCT use SSE2 if you have a P4, otherwise
use FPU. At Save your DVD drive select a big value at the Size,
as the ripping takes long and that's not good for your DVD.
If you have 512MB of RAM select 256MB at the RAM. If You have
256, 128MB at the RAM. If you have even less select 256MB at
the Hard disk. At Deinterlace filter leave None and then click
OK. |
Now it's time to select the right bitrate for our movie.Open
the DivX bitrate calculator. Calculate the minutes of the movie
by the length DVDx shows, ignoring the seconds and add 2. For
example here I did: 60 + 51 + 2 = 113. Select DivX 4.xx and
the desired size. At the audio options make the same selections
as I have here. Also round values. Here I will use 740 kbps.
Make sure the bitrate isn't less than 700 kbps especially for
action movies. If it is use 2 CDs. Also use 700MB CDs because
the 50MB more help to increase quality. Remember the value (here
it is 740) and close the program.
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Back to DVDx now. Click at the icon that is highlighted.
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In this one just fill in all the values as you
see them here. Make sure you select the DivX codex and that
you enable 2nd Pass, as well as Use Lame. At Zoom select None
or Full. At resize select Bilinear SEE2 for P4 or BiCubic SSE/3DNow.
Be sure to click at Whole button. At Volume don't exceed select
Infinite as DVDx can't create two files if 2-pass is enabled.
For two CDs movie read this guide to chop the AVI file in two
after encoding. Now click at Audio Lame. |
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Here select the values shown here. Click OK and
you will back at the window in Step 7. Now click Pass 1 settings. |
Here make sure that 2-pass, first pass is selected in Variable
bitrate mode. Select Slowest right below and at Output video
bitstream write the value we calculated in Step 5. The other
select as shown. Click OK and then click on Pass 2 settings
button. |
Here be sure that you choose 2-pass, second pass in Variable
bitrate mode. Select the same bitrate as before and click OK,
and then Apply at the window of Step 7. |
Now select the highlighted button to select the target file.
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Here click Browse and select the folder and the
filename of your file and then OK. |
Now click the rec button. Wait for 10 minutes and watch the
progress. If you see horizontal lines in the video stop the
encoding and go back to Step 4 and then select Interpolate at
the Deinterlace filter option. After the encoding finishes you
can burn the avi file in a CD using the common ISO/Data option.
Using the player we have here is a good idea. |
NOTE: At the middle of the process
(at 50%) a window will come up saying "Releasing the AVI
file, please wait and do not kill the application". Please
do so! It can take from 10 to 40 minutes to continue so please
wait. it may seem that it's not working but it does!
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