ripping a DVD

[scarlac]

Hi

I'm new in ripping DVD's and I see a lot of different tutorials about it. I'm looking for the best way to rip a dvd with several subtitles and audio channels, all with the best audio and video compression.

I'd like to have all my DVD's on my computer which is my mediamachine: music, video, pictures, ... I control everything with one remote control.

When I want to watch a movie, i'd like to have the possibility to choose the subtitle and audiolanguage.

Is it possible to have the movie with its DTS or Dolby 5.1 sound.

Is it possible to have a complete rip of the complete DVD with menu and extra's. I know how to rip the DVD to HD, but it's only a copy of it on the HD. 8Gb of place is to much.

What space will a dvd take on my HD with all its content, movies don't have to fit on a CDR.

What is the best codec for it: DivX, WMV, ...

What codec will be the standard in the future. Like MP3 is one of the standards now.

I saw some videos on the site of microsoft compressed in WMV HD, waw the quality was just amazing. Is that a possible new standard in codec.

What tool do i have to use to do it easily, fast and with the best quality

Can someone help me out with all my questions.

Thanx a lot
scarlac

[yoda313]

Hello,

Here's one guide for dvd-divx:

https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?link=214

There's a guide for divx with 5.1 I just can't remember where it is. It's on this site though.

You can use a video bit rate calculator to determine the file size of the video.

If you have a dvd burner you can use dvdshrink to make it fit a dvdr.

Kevin

[scarlac]

This doesn't answer my questions. And also, I don't want it to be copied on a DVD. Yoda313, you should read my questions more carefully.

Thanx anyway
Scarlac

[guns1inger]

If you want the best quality, use DVD Decrypter to copy the DVD in it's entirety to your harddrive. This will give you exactly what you had before, with no quality loss and all features intact. The amount od space required will vary from disk to disk, but will usually be somewhere between 4 and 8GB per movie. This is the only way to keep everything as it was without sacrificing quality.

All your other options will require a sacrifice somewhere, be it to quality or functionality. You can have your cake, or you can eat it, but not both. (Isn't life just so unfair ?)

[scarlac]

alright, I thought so.

i have to encode with some codec. What codecs and software for it are the best.

Can i keep several audiolanguages in Dolby 5.1 or DTS and subtitles.

Why i need the several languages. I have lotsa friends that come by at my place to watch movies. Part of them speaks dutch, another part english and last part french. Would be nice to have the movie and it's separated audiofiles and subtitles.

Thanx
scarlac

[guns1inger]

There was some work going on regarding DTS audio in Divx/Xvid, but I don't know how far advanced they are. For the moment, if you want DTS, I suspect you are stuck with DVD. It is possible to have AC3 multichannel audio in Divx/Xvid, however mutliple seperate sound tracks I'm not so sure about. You may have to have mutiple versions of the movie, each with a different language, in which case, you may as well have kept the DVD format.

Have you thought about adding a jukebox instead ?

[scarlac]

What do youmean with jukebox

[guns1inger]

Hardware that sits next your media machine and holds mutliple disks. They exist for CD's, but I haven't looked for one for DVDs. If they exist, it would solve your problem.

[ZippyP.]

They exist for CD's, but I haven't looked for one for DVDs.

Look here.

[guns1inger]

Nice kit. Can't be controlled from his media PC though.