Good Quality DVD to VCD rip

[GaryFaulder2k]

Hi,

Ive ripped loads of dvds before using various methods, however I am noticing a very wide range of quality outputs. For example when encoding to VCD with DVDX using the best quality settings it rips at 13fps and the quality is watchable. However when encoding with Flask Mpeg it rips at 7fps but the quality is much better. However this does not cut the mpegs for you automatically.

Does anyone have any oppinions on any other programs which will rip quite fast but with a good quality output. Oh and i need it to be able to encode single VOBs and full movies from the IFO files.

Cheers
Gary

[ilovevcd]

Hi,

Ive ripped loads of dvds before using various methods, however I am noticing a very wide range of quality outputs. For example when encoding to VCD with DVDX using the best quality settings it rips at 13fps and the quality is watchable. However when encoding with Flask Mpeg it rips at 7fps but the quality is much better. However this does not cut the mpegs for you automatically.

Does anyone have any oppinions on any other programs which will rip quite fast but with a good quality output. Oh and i need it to be able to encode single VOBs and full movies from the IFO files.

Cheers
Gary

Hi Gary.

Was reading your post, and my way to ripp dvd goes throu dvd2avi then i have avisynth or virtualdub to render frameserver output to tmpgenc.

And with my p3 700mhz 1 vcd~79 min takes about 10hour so estimate aprox 20-24 hour for a movie

[GaryFaulder2k]

Wow thats far too long. DVDX takes me about 4 hours for a 2 hour movie, Flask Mpeg takes me about 7 hours for a 2 hour movie.

Im using an Athlon 1000, 256mb Ram.

[ilovevcd]

Wow thats far too long. DVDX takes me about 4 hours for a 2 hour movie, Flask Mpeg takes me about 7 hours for a 2 hour movie.

Im using an Athlon 1000, 256mb Ram.

Na, its only about 12x (read 12h to encode 1h)
And I am not stop using TmpgEnc even if it is a bit
slow, but hey the quality shines and it powerful too.

Flask soften the picture, so you might as well take a butter sandwich and smear it on the monitor.

:P

[GaryFaulder2k]

I just tried a new method, Smartripper to rip the vobs and ifos. Then i used dvd to avi to make the m2v and wav files. Then used tmpenc to encode it and it took 5 hours for a 2hour movie and it gave me the best results ive seen yet from dvd to vcd. This method is described in one of the guides linked to the left <---

[incognito]

I'm curious if you are using tmpg or flask to do
your resize?

I'm also curious if you're using flask 0.6
or one of the newer xmpeg versions?

[GaryFaulder2k]

I am using the normal flask not any of the updated ones, except for the patch to allow you to open ifos. I am using flask and tmpenc to resize.

After a lot of trials i would sugest using the smartripper>dvd2avi>tmpgenc>nero methods its the best one i could find.

[ilovevcd]

I'm curious if you are using tmpg or flask to do
your resize?

I'm also curious if you're using flask 0.6
or one of the newer xmpeg versions?

Well, the best way i come up with is using the 2:1 hiq virtualdub or avistnth reduceby2 option, then either let tmpgenc do the final resize or the avisynth/virtualdub bilinerarresize.

As Dvd is 720 x 576 (PAL) a reduceby2 gives 360 x 288 but that has to be resized to 352 x 288. However it apears to me that such great scale cant be made only with resize. Tried the "Rumble in bronx" but some part was terrible until i used the half-size reduction instead.

Good Luck in vcd.