Best conversion method for mass DVD to DivX

[spidey]

Hey All,

I wanted to get some opions of what technique may be best.

I have very many authored DVD's which now due to space I want to re-convert the TS's back to DivX clips.

Each DVD has different TS's per movie / clip of its contents.

Initially I had wanted a 1 step process to keep all the menu'ing and hard work - yet convert it to a DivX ultra format See https://forum.videohelp.com/topic348326.html#1829235 However it's not possible.

Since I now am back to single clip extraction - what would be best ? I liked the DivX converter as it linked the sequential vob's of the TSs - and you could simply drag and drop in the vobs with the profile set - however it says it won't convert VBR sources. ....hmmm

Does anyone else have any thoughts - hopefully a good batch method so I may queue up the discs and let em roll, periodically then deleting the old VIDEO_TS sources ?

Thanks for any ideas !!!!

[Baldrick]

AutoGK with a batch tool, see https://forum.videohelp.com/topic349758.html

And have you tried divx converter with vbr sources? Most commercial movies are vbr.

[jman98]

I don't recommend Divx Converter. It's lack of features is not good. It was designed for, ahem, shall I politely say "technologically challenged" users to use. I can't take it seriously and I can't believe they actually charge for it. Dr. Divx is a million times better and gives you more control over the process. For I think the same money Divx Converter wants, you could buy the commercial Divx codec and use Dr. Divx (free, but limited in use unless you buy the commercial Divx codec for it) and get better results.

I know of no VBR limitations on any of the Divx software programs, not even Divx Converter. Are you sure it won't do VBR video? Maybe it's saying it won't do VBR audio sources, which is a completely different thing and meaningless to you if your input source is from DVDs (DVD's don't use VBR audio).

[spidey]

Hi All,

Thank you very much for your ideas.

Yes, I had tried the DivX converter - but after loading the vob's upon encoding, it did give me an error stating it would not take vbr sources. I agree totally that this was a surprise as I do not know many VTSs which would be cbr ?!?!?!?! I don't believe the audio was an issue - all the audio of the sources is 192k ac3.

I am trying Dr DivX and I believe this may work well. I have loaded up the TSs of (2) discs worth of content, and we'll see how it goes.

Again, thank you very much Baldrick and Jman98 !!!!!!