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How
to rip a DVD to DivX using Dr.Divx
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| Dr. DivX is the official DivX encoding
tool by DivX Networks. As you understand, as DivX Networks is
the company that has created and updating DivX, they have created
a very good encoding tool which let's you create videos of very
good quality. Dr.DivX also has the better co-operation with
DivX codec than all other programs, as it is a tool design for
this codec. |
First of all you should know that Dr.DivX does not support encoding
a DVD straight from the disc, like DVDx does, but you will have
to rip the DVD to the hard disk first and create VOB files that
Dr.DivX supports. For not asking me why Dr.DivX doesn't support
encoding straight from the DVD, I tell you that for ripping
a DVD you must unlock it first and then remove the protection,
something that is considered illegal in some countries, even
if you own the DVD and even if you don't copy it! Crazy thing
don't you think?
Anyway, you will not have any problem because copying a DVD
to the hard disk is a simple thing. You can use our site's DVD
To VOB guide if you don't know how to do it, you will also find
the tools to do that available for download at this site also.
After you have ripped the VOB files to your hard disk we can
proceed to... |
Open Dr.DivX and select the Video File button (the one the arrow
shows).
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Select the first VOB file only (usually
the VTS_0X_1.VOB file) and then click Open. At the next screen
make sure all your files are in the list and that if there is
a file you don't want to be encoded you select it and you click
Remove. Then you see the screen below, so you will have to wait
for a small amount of time until you can gon on. |
This is the next screen. The VOB file you created using our
guide contains audio so select (1) Track in video input. You
can click the play button (2) to be sure that the audio that
plays is the right one. Finally click Next (3) to go to the
next step. |
This is the next screen. Just select Home Theater at (1). Then
(2) select 1 file of 700MB if you plan to burn the movie in
1 CD or 2 files of 700MB if you plan to burn the movie in two
CDs. Of course you can choose whatever file size you want, even
100MB but then the quality is going to be very poor. If the
movie is big (> 2hrs) select 2 files as the quality is going
to be poor. Finally click Next (3).
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The just select Modify settings and ignore the warning that
comes up and you can see below. Check "Do not warn me again"
if want to get rid of it and click OK.
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Here: (1) select the right Aspect Ration for your movie. Then
resize the resolution (2) by moving the bar so that the first
value is 640 (so it's 640xXXX - the second value varies and
depends on the Aspect Ratio you select) Then (3) you can select
the Audio bitrate. You can leave the value the program has left
for you, or change it. Finally click Advanced Settings (4).
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Here check the Bit Rate (1) and be sure that it is more than
700 (here it's a very big value, because the video I use is
very small). If it's not go back to step 5 and select 2 files
instead of 1. Then make sure 2-pass is selected (2) and select
Bicubic sharp (3) at the Resize filter. Finally click Encode
(4). |
This is the window that will come up after all this steps. Just
wait for about 4-8 hours for a full movie and the DivX video
is yours! |
