Dvd to Avi

[nate8282]

When converting From DVD to avi i get those really bad horizontal lines durring fast motion and alittle choppy, it's really bad and driving me crazy! i've changed the frame rate and that isn't whats causing it.

[manono]

Hi-

Those really bad horizontal lines are interlacing. You haven't said how you're doing the conversion, but my suggestion is to use AutoGK for the job. It'll analyze the source and do what has to be done to get rid of the interlacing, and have the resulting AVI play smoothly.

[nate8282]

i was using DVD to AVI DivX MPEG Ripper to convert tv episodes to avi via divx 6.7.

[nate8282]

is there other program that can do the same thing even if i have to pay for it. I need something that lets me select chapters.

[guns1inger]

AutoGK - it's free, smart, and produces great results.

AVI.net - it's free, a little less configurable, but still very good.

FairUseWizard - it's free, smart, and even easier than AutoGK (if that is possible) and produces great results.

In all cases you will have to rip the DVD to your HDD first, but after that, any of these will produce superior quality to any $30 rip-off converter.

[manono]

is there other program that can do the same thing even if i have to pay for it. I need something that lets me select chapters.

Select chapters? Like the chapters from the original DVD? That's usually done at the decrypting level, not the encoding level. Use DVD Decrypter in IFO Mode, right-click on the chapters and "Select None". Then check the one you want to decrypt. Another way is to decrypt the entire DVD or the entire movie to the hard drive using DVD Decrypter or some-such. Then use PGCDemux to select the cell (chapter) you want to demux from the movie. But, if you're encoding TV episodes, what you want is probably PGCs and not cells (chapters).