I don't know about you lot, but I'm tired of trying a succession of apps that seem to breed. I'm tired of having my machine get confused about avisynths and vobdubs and effing-mpegs, and one installer calling up half a dozen more for programs that already exist. I'm tired of the winrot that all this installing and uninstalling is making.
Can someone please recommend a simple, stand-alone program -- free, shareware or commercial -- that can rip a single or dual layer DVD (or at the very least, convert the output from DVDFab Decrypter) and create an XviD-encoded AVI that is guaranteed to fit on a single CD?
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I want both, and I want it so that there are no hordes of sub-apps. One executable that does all of the work, not farming stuff off to a chain of ever-changing subprograms. AutoGK is the worst of the bunch, it's a front end for a front end for half a dozen sub-programs.
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Originally Posted by Brains
I "understand" what you mean with AutoGk "calling/pop up" other applications, i wont put AutoGk down as it one of the best tools outhere, no buts.
Having said that, i was also "annoyed" by the "pop ups" but its a free tool that produces excelent results, that is why i use avi.Net now, does exactly the same thing, i dont have to go through the compression test extra time and pop ups, avi.Net does everything without the pop ups, it uses third party applications but you dont see them like in AutoGk, you're informed in the program on what it is doing at a certain time. In one word its more "TIDY" than AutoGk, it doesnt install codecs it uses what is on your pc.
Quality is the same. Try it and decide
Brains don't get me wrong but try to be more polite next time, you wont go far here by saying bad things about top quality tools that almost everyone tried and rated it "5 stars"
If you're having problems with the tools is most certainly your pc, you see AutoGk and otheres have been around for years.
To quote Len0x:
AutoGK and the programs it uses have been tested thoroughly and used, in many cases for years, by many thousands of people. These warnings aren't meant to scare you away from video encoding, but just so you'll understand if something does happenOriginally Posted by Brains
That is why AutoGk have the compression test and it will pick up the right option to use/ alert you you of the final quality. If You dont know what bitrate to use, use AutoGK, the "pop" ups is something you have to learn to live with.
If you Know what bitrate should be used use avi.Net.
By the way having CD as a reference with DVDR's at same price is outdated.
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Originally Posted by ricardouk
Personally, I don't understand the problem with the program in use at the moment showing, whether BeSweet, DGIndex, VDubMod, or anything else. The fact that AutoGK is a front end for several other excellent programs is nothing to be annoyed about, I don't think. But I guess Brains (?) has already made up his mind. -
Originally Posted by manono
My "problem" with AutoGK isnt really the "pop ups", its the compression test, if i'm converting episodic dvds that adds quite a bit of time. Wish there was a on/off option.
BUT I DO UNDERSTAND WHY IT IS THERE!I love it when a plan comes together! -
The compression test are necessary to get the best quality. AutoGK uses other programs to do the comressing but they are all programs that are well liked and used by many people here. It's not like it's installing spyware or anything malicious. It installs a few legitimate applications that works well together to give you the best quality encode and let's you defince a specific filesize. All you have to do is click your mouse a few times and wait. If you want to easiest solution with best quality AutoGK is it.
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Originally Posted by guns1inger
Originally Posted by ricardouk
I understand what you mean with AutoGk "calling/pop up" other applications, i wont put AutoGk down as it one of the best tools outhere, no buts.
Possibly the biggest issue I have with 'breeder' apps like Gordian Knot is that if something goes awry and it gets un-installed, it inevitably punches holes in the rest of the system's video framework, because some other program relies on a different version of one of the same sub-programs ... hence my original request.
... avi.Net now, does exactly the same thing ...
... try to be more polite next time, you wont go far here by saying bad things about top quality tools that almost everyone tried and rated it "5 stars"
... If you're having problems with the tools is most certainly your pc
every single one will fit a CD, will it have good quality? NO
the "pop" ups is something you have to learn to live with.
I don't have to learn to live with anything. My computer, my rules
... having CD as a reference with DVDR's at same price is outdated.
Welcome to Videohelp
So, end of discussion about AutoGK and the like, yes? Most of you love it, I hate it and I've explained why. Yes I'm weird, live with it, gods knows I have to :P
So. I'm still after any further suggestions for a suitable DVD-to-XviD-on-CD applicaiton that:
- is NOT AutoGK, Gordian Knot or Avi.NET
- does NOT rely on Avisynth, Vobsub, VLC, ffmpeg or any other sub-program
- is 100% self-contained and stand-alone
- has an intuitive graphical interface
- can ensure final output does not exceed 700 MB no matter what
- can be commercial, shareware, trialware or even free.
If you can't suggest anything which meets all of those criteria, don't comment
So far, I've got WinAVI and DVDFab as possibles. Anything else? -
Go to downloads.com and you will find hundreds of them. They are all based on pretty interfaces and bastardized freeware backend routines that aren't credited. And like WinAVI, they are for the most part, crap.
However, as you have stated that quality is far lower on your list than convenience or keeping it all in one application, it really wont matter which one you pick. They are all pretty much the same - average programs for average users.
If you really want to keep your system that tidy and compartmentalised, you should go and buy a Mac. You can just drag the folder for app into your applications folder, and it is installed. Don't like it ? Drag it to the bin and it's uninstalled. And decision making is far easier because there are far fewer applications to choose from, and none of them use the better tools like avisynth.Read my blog here.
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FairUse Wizard should do all you want. You will still need to decrypt the DVDs. The freeware DVDFab HD Decrypter is recommended for that. WinAVI is not recommended by much of anyone here. Do a forum search as to why.
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Originally Posted by guns1inger
If someone can take a clump of free code and stand-alone one-shot apps, strip them down and repackage them into a single exectuable, and puts a decent interface on it, and then wants money for the repackaging, I'll pay for that if it does what I want how I want.
If you really want to keep your system that tidy and compartmentalised, you should go and buy a Mac.
(And no, don't tell me to upgrade the G4 to a newer Intel Mac, I won't touch anything which uses an Intel chip. AMD, 68k or PowerPC only in this house, thanks!)
Originally Posted by redwudz -
New released E.M. Free DVD Copy can rip DVD DVD to AVI, DivX, XviD, MPEG, FLV, WMV, even rip to ipod.
It is a freeware. I tried the program, it works well for good quality DVD discs but cannot handle scratched DVD discs. And the conversion speed is not very fast. And for ripping DVD to ipod, iphone, it needs upgrading to paid version.
Get from http://www.freewarefiles.com/EM-Free-DVD-Copy_program_41511.html -
So why don't they liase with the authors of all the sub-programs they use, and turn it into a single executable?
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Because then you end up with Nero - bloated in size and mediocre in function. The good tools (avisynth, ffmpg mencoder et al) are complex programs written by dedicated people who work for nothing. They are all concentrating on the things they know and do best. Trying to co-ordinate all of this into a single program is a mammoth task that would ultimately mean losing many of the functions that make the tools what they are.
I have a single instance of avisynth on my machine, that is used by probably a dozen different tools. Why do I have so many - because each does something different and does it very well. I would rather have a dozen very god tools, so I can use the right tool for the job, than have one mediocre tool that does everything, but does none of it well.Read my blog here.
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