Please help me decide !!

[Mister Nokia]

Hi there....

My intensions are to copy dvd-movies and to put them on a regular cd-rom so that i can play them in my Dvd-player
Now my problem is to decide what type of video to decode to.
My dvd-player support's: Vcd, Xvcd, Cdr, Cdrw, Dvdr, Dvdrw

How can tel me what is the best and with what programs to do it ?

I have a Sony Dvp-NS400d cd/dvd player.
I use a Philips Cdrw 800 internal IDE burner.
I use 74 and 80 min. recordables

Thanx
D.Houwer

[TeeeRex]

Hi,

Try SmartRipper->DVD2AVI->TMPGEnc->Nero

Personally I have tried the standard SVCD templates in TMPGEnc (don't forget to set the source range to split into CD's and set the Motion Search to High Quality.) Result is a 'quality' picture - near to DVD as you are gonna get ...

Appreciate you say that only VCD works on your player but no reason why you can't get good quality results using the VCD template instead but I haven't tried it myself.

Try to stick to the standard TMPGEnc templates if poss - otherwise Nero will winge and your player will probably not play them ...

Look at the guides if you are unfamiliar with the above programs - also remember to install them in the SAME directory or VFAPI won't work...

Good Luck...

TeeeRex

[fantomlord]

Hi there....

My intensions are to copy dvd-movies and to put them on a regular cd-rom so that i can play them in my Dvd-player
Now my problem is to decide what type of video to decode to.
My dvd-player support's: Vcd, Xvcd, Cdr, Cdrw, Dvdr, Dvdrw

How can tel me what is the best and with what programs to do it ?

I have a Sony Dvp-NS400d cd/dvd player.
I use a Philips Cdrw 800 internal IDE burner.
I use 74 and 80 min. recordables

Thanx
D.Houwer

if your player supports XVCD but not SVCD, that will be how you will get the best quality. I would try some test encodes of small clips(~1 min.) at different bitrates so you can see how high you can get the bitrate, because higher bitrate=higher quality. when you figure that out, use a bitrate calculator to determine what bitrate to use, and do a multipass VBR encode for your final movie. that will allow you to use a higher average bitrate, and still get good quality, while still fitting a decent amount of material on each disc. I would recommend using a CDRW for you testing to avoid using a lot of CDRs.
Hope that helps.