DVD conversion to ?

[glmwpg]

I know what i'm doing basically with dvdripping overall, but need input on easily making this happen.

I've recently gone on vacation to mexico, went on a tour in the jungle & was using pulley & harnesses sliding down canopy lines - longest stretch 1200ft, highest height 800ft. anyway met a couple from my city there & we ended up splitting a DVD of us doing the tour. i ripped the .ifo and .vob (1045MB) files for myself, and gave them the dvd. got an email a few days later saying they couldn't play it. Probably the type of dvd player they have... i had a buddy @ work try to duplicate the dvd & his program reported a problem of some sort. anyway its so far just me that can read the dvd on our samsung standalone dvd player & my toshiba dvd drive in the computer. i'm looking to get them a computer copy, want it to fit on 1cd, and don't want to install a codec if possible on their computer - or one that would install automatically (assuming they would use WMP to view).

which codec should I use ?

or if anyone has any other suggestions I am very open to them, i do have access to a DVD burner, but do not have one myself.

thank you, and nice site, been great guidance for a long time.

[redwudz]

You don't give any computer profile, which always helps, but how about VCD format? Not the best quality, but should be more compatible. I believe you also could convert it to WMP format in Movie Maker if you have XP. Not sure, don't use that program. The codec should already be there.

[glmwpg]

they have a "new dell".

their standalone dvd player doesn't work /w VCDs or SVCDs unfortunately. and their computer doesn't have a DVD drive either!

so far i've used flaskmpeg to get it into a divx5 AVI, video quality and sound are fine. tried to convert using the WMP codec showing up in flaskmpeg, and quality is ok, no sound which i thought was wierd... but the filesize was around the same as the .vob - just over a GB.

I can install a codec but would prefer if it was transparent... or anyone have a codec install that is a mere few clicks?

just looking for an easy way out to make them an easily playable movie for their computer, and any computer they wish to play it on.

[Bjs]

You could do it my way ....

Rip dvd contents
Create a .lst file for virtualmod
Then load that in virtualmod
Encode video using xvid compressor at 450 to 550 bitrate max
Use filter , add resize , resize to half width and hieght fields
(for me its pal 352x288)

Audio must be seperated and encoded into mp3
(I used mp3 at 32000 , stereo , I think thats 8kb per second)

When audio is encoded , you need to connect this to AVI , AUDIO
Either channel will do , second is normal , so dont add audio to first channel

Now save as OGM , and let it go ...

The reason to encode the audio first and seperate from the job is it has a habit of causing media player , bs player and others to crash after 5 minutes ...

So encode audio seperately , and add it in when ready to encode video , the audio dose not get encoded again , and is in perfect sync all the way to the finish ..

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Trick : Copy encoded file to another directory on hard drive and rename the extension from ogm to mpg (mpeg) , good stuff , it plays .

Will be seeing how digitek and centrex home dvd players handle it or not in this form ...

Doing it this way should fit contents to 1 cd easily with reasonably good quality in playback (not recommended for playback on tvs above 68cm) , as pixelization distortion becomes more apparent .

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I also have a help file for windows systems that I created , that tell's users how I converted whole dvd movies to fit onto a single cdr , and the quality wont cause you to go blind ...

All steps involved .

All involved programs are freeware .

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In either format (my way of converting dvds) wether it be mpeg1 or ogm you wish to use , the size is about equal ...

Thirteen ghosts , starwars - clonewars , tomb raider - cradle of life , and many more dvd titles , all fit 1 cdr ...

Since doing this I get alot of people wanting me to convert their old vhs tapes this way .

The most I have fitted onto a single cd in time format is 325 minutes , not bad with a little extra tweaking here and there ....

Should you want the help file I created , message me ...

PS :

The mpegs (not the renamed ogm files) will playback at fullscreen on p350+ systems .

The rename ogm files require P400+ to few fullscreen playback .

[ZippyP.]

just looking for an easy way out to make them an easily playable movie for their computer, and any computer they wish to play it on.

A VCD is mpeg1 and does not require a codec to be installed in order for media player to play it, or you could just leave it as mpeg1 and burn that to disk. VCD capacity is 800 MB vs 700 MB as a plain mpeg on disk. You didn't say how long your video is but you can get 80 min on a standard VCD. If you choose to create just an mpeg1 file then you are not restricted to VCD standard resolution or bitrate, so you can create better video than the VCD standard. It really depends how many minutes you want to squeeze on a disk as mpeg does not compress as well as other video types.

[glmwpg]

thank you very much for the advice. I'm going to basically have the Divx codec installed on their system and play it like that.. kinda sick of messging with it to be honest

i appreciate the information given, thanks and CHEERS!!!