How do I rip a DVD to a multi-Audio or a DUAL-Audio AVI?

[KneeRow]

Is there a way to rip a DVD to a DUAL-Audio or even a multi-Audio avi?
As far as it matters, it's an episode DVD.

I've used the workaround via MakeMKV, then MKVextractGUI to get the mpeg2's and sound and subs out, then remux them via vdub etc, but:
1 it takes kinda long and
2 i think it will lose quality cos of the many transcodings/conversions,
3 it costs me 10GB of discspace.

so is there a way to go directly from VIDEO_TS to avi with 2 or more audio tracks?
And also, with separate subtitles, preferably in .SRT (or any text) format?

All the rippers i've seen, like imtoo, dvdx, smartripper, they all seem only to be able to produce an avi with just ONE audio track, often with the subs hardcoded AAAARGH! And sure, I can rip them 3 times, for each audio track I want, then save the audio with goldwave or vdub, but that seems overly .... stupid?
There's Xvid2PSP ... maybe, but it takes a staggering, whopping 125 (HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE) mb of discspace to operate. I have the space, but I am hugely distrustful of any program that takes 10 times more resources than all the other apps to do the same thing, basically.

I'm drawing a huge blank, here, I know there must be an easy way to do, just not seeing it right now.

[Baldrick]

The old and good AutoGK supports 2 audio tracks and separate subs in sub/idx (and probably also the more up to date staxrip). If you want srt subs you must use a separate tools as it requires OCR.

I don't know any tool that support more than 2 audio tracks though.

[midders]

Use DGMPGDec with AnyDVD to rip all the video, audio and subtitle streams to your hard disk, then convert the video to avi with your favourite tool (VirtualdubMod, AutoGK, Fairuse Wizard etc.) and use AVI-Demux_GUI to mux the video, audio and substreams that you want.

Slainte

midders

[KneeRow]

Thank you both. It seems there's no other solution than the hard way. Back to the saltmines it seems, since i really want 3 audio traks, eng-spa-comment

Midders, i don't get why I wouldn't use Vdubmod to mux and add 3 audio streams to the avi at the same time?

Why use an extra program like avi-demux?

Baldrick,
If I ever am less lazy to learn AutoGKese, I will use it when there's just two audio streams.

Okay maybe i will ask you pointed autogk quesions en un rato, beware!

[KneeRow]

Ok, at first I loaded the wrong IFO files but now I've done it right, and agk gives me the chance to select even 3 audio streams and I think to ditch the fourth one. However, it's still running, so i report back later.

Q: how come i can only select ONE subtitle per go, and will they be hardcoded?

[KneeRow]

Wow, good old AutoGK REAALY let me have 3 audio streams. This was almost exactly like I wanted it, without the encumbersome mkv step.
It did take 2.5 hours and i had to readjust the audios but hey.....

Baldrick, two questions:
1. How do I set the video bitrate exactly to what I want instead of guestimating it with the MB size?
2. how do I adjust the WxH, so that it comes out as 704x384 aspect ratio=1,8333 instead of 704x400, aspect ratio=1,76 ? It seems I can only set the width, but not the height!

Or should I used normal GK now for all that?



Purely for curiosity purposes, the autogk log. Maybe a quick glance is either interesting or unbearably funny to you. I don't know why im posting it, actually.

[19-1-2010 13:54:22] OS: WinXP (5.1.2600).2
[19-1-2010 13:54:22] Job started.
[19-1-2010 13:54:22] Input file: C:\uTorrentDown\Series_D4\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.IFO
[19-1-2010 13:54:22] Output file: C:\Video\Series_D4\Episode12\Episode12_AGK.avi
[19-1-2010 13:54:22] Output codec: XviD
[19-1-2010 13:54:22] Audio 1: English AC3 2ch
[19-1-2010 13:54:22] Audio 2: Espanol AC3 2ch
[19-1-2010 13:54:22] Audio 3: English AC3 2ch
[19-1-2010 13:54:22] Subtitles: none
[19-1-2010 13:54:22] Format: AVI
[19-1-2010 13:54:22] Target size: 400Mb
[19-1-2010 13:54:22] Custom resolution settings: fixed width of 704 pixels
[19-1-2010 13:54:22] Audio 1 settings: CBR MP3 with bitrate: 128Kbps
[19-1-2010 13:54:22] Audio 2 settings: CBR MP3 with bitrate: 128Kbps
[19-1-2010 13:54:22] Audio 3 settings: CBR MP3 with bitrate: 128Kbps
[19-1-2010 13:54:22] Started encoding.
[19-1-2010 13:54:22] Demuxing and indexing.
[19-1-2010 13:58:13] Processing file: C:\TorrentDown\Series_D4\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB
[19-1-2010 13:58:13] Processing file: C:\TorrentDown\Series_D4\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_2.VOB
[19-1-2010 13:58:13] Source resolution: 720x480
[19-1-2010 13:58:13] Found NTSC source.
[19-1-2010 13:58:13] Source aspect ratio: 16:9
[19-1-2010 13:58:13] Source seems to be pure FILM.
[19-1-2010 13:58:13] Color correction enabled.
[19-1-2010 13:58:13] Output will contain 63429 frames
[19-1-2010 13:58:13] Decoding audio.
[19-1-2010 13:59:10] Normalizing audio.
[19-1-2010 13:59:31] Encoding audio.
[19-1-2010 14:06:33] Decoding audio.
[19-1-2010 14:07:30] Normalizing audio.
[19-1-2010 14:07:53] Encoding audio.
[19-1-2010 14:15:07] Decoding audio.
[19-1-2010 14:16:02] Normalizing audio.
[19-1-2010 14:16:24] Encoding audio.
[19-1-2010 14:24:59] Using VAQ in XviD
[19-1-2010 14:24:59] Audio1 size: 42,328,320 bytes (40.37 Mb)
[19-1-2010 14:25:02] Audio2 size: 42,328,320 bytes (40.37 Mb)
[19-1-2010 14:25:04] Audio3 size: 42,328,320 bytes (40.37 Mb)
[19-1-2010 14:25:07] Overhead: 2,259,840 bytes (2.16 Mb)
[19-1-2010 14:25:07] Video size: 290,185,600 bytes (276.74 Mb)
[19-1-2010 14:25:07] Running compressibility test.
[19-1-2010 14:31:30] Duration was: 6 minutes 23 seconds
[19-1-2010 14:31:30] Speed was: 8,28 fps.
[19-1-2010 14:31:30] Compressibility percentage is: 73,03
[19-1-2010 14:31:30] Chosen resolution is: 704x400 ( AR: 1,76 )
[19-1-2010 14:31:30] Predicted comptest value is: 73,03%
[19-1-2010 14:31:30] Running first pass.
[19-1-2010 15:28:10] Duration was: 56 minutes 39 seconds
[19-1-2010 15:28:11] Speed was: 18,66 fps.
[19-1-2010 15:28:11] Expected quality of first pass size: 74,16%
[19-1-2010 15:28:11] Running second pass.
[19-1-2010 16:19:23] Duration was: 51 minutes 6 seconds
[19-1-2010 16:19:23] Speed was: 20,68 fps.
[19-1-2010 16:19:23] Job finished. Total time: 2 hours 25 minutes 1 second.
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[midders]

Midders, i don't get why I wouldn't use Vdubmod to mux and add 3 audio streams to the avi at the same time?

You would, but that depends on you using Vdub for the conversion; not everyone does. Most of my xvid encoding these days is done using xvid_encraw via my batch script which uses AVI-Demux_GUI to add the audio.

[citanool]

midders must mean AVIMux GUI,

*not AviDemux*

[midders]

midders must mean AVIMux GUI,

*not AviDemux*

Thanks, that's the enchilada!