My First rip..some final advice

[Scottish Guy]

hi Guys

I use this brill web site especially the newbie guide to rip from DVD to VCD...well nearly


Actually used Sefy's Classical Newbie DVD Conversion Guide v1.7

I used DVD Ripper
DVD2AVI
TMPGEnc

I now have Gladiator as a 1.5 Gig Mpeg, Great quality though. So my last job is to split this and burn it onto 2 CD`s as a Video CD.

But as I am a newbie can someone answer me some basic questions:-

So what is the best app to use to split my Mpeg ?
Should I just split it 50/50 ?
How different will the sound sound quality be on a VCD comapered to that of the original ?
Why do some people rip movies 2 Divx and post these on the net ?

Anyway I am nearly there thanks to you Guys, keep up the good work !

Cheers

[Truman]

A VCD MPEG-1 file you can cut easily with bbMPEG or TMPGEnc.
http://www.vcdhelp.com/tmpgencedit.htm
http://www.vcdhelp.com/bbmpegedit.htm

[Shabubu]

The sound quality will be less than the original, and not in 5:1 surround, but it will be CD quality.

Use the TMPGEnc guide and cut on a scene change, so you don't have to change discs in the middle of a scene.

DivX is a superior format for the net and computer viewing as it can be done at lower bitrates than MPEG1, thus higher resolutions, smaller files. But DivX > VCD is a problem that we won't even to into here.

[Sefy]

Scottish Guy, since you used my guide, why didn't you use the Source Range to encode your movie in two parts ? would have saved you the splitting now

[spidey]

Hi Sefy,

I was going to ask him the same thing (if he filed your guide). You beat me to it !! Hope all's great Bro

[energy80s]

Or better still, why not rip the DVD into 2 different folders, splitting it at a proper chapter point rather than just guessing at an edit point. Its what I do and is far perferrable to the guesswork involved with Source Ranges.

[Sefy]

energy80s, actually you may never know if a Chapter on the DVD is in the middle of an action sequence, that's why I prefer the Source Range, you get to choose and control at what spot the movie will be cut, for me, it's always in a black transition, or in a complete scene change with the minimum audio.

[CaptF]

I use TMPGEnc to split MPEGS (under MPEG Tools menu). As for sizes, I recommend making the first half as large as possible while staying under 700MB. Since you have to get up and swap the vcds to continue watching the movie, I also try to split at a logical point -- like a scene change. You don't want the first vcd to suddenly stop mid-sentence. TMPGEnc allows you to see where (what frame) you are making your split.

As for why people rip to divx -- they contend divx provides better overall quality than vcd. Plus films fit on 1 cd. If I had a way of watching divx on my TV (without buying additional hardware) I would use divx, too.

[energy80s]

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energy80s, actually you may never know if a Chapter on the DVD is in the middle of an action sequence, that's why I prefer the Source Range, you get to choose and control at what spot the movie will be cut, for me, it's always in a black transition, or in a complete scene change with the minimum audio.

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True, that's why you should always LOOK at the chapters before deciding where to split the film. Sorry, should've mentioned that! For example, I've just finish ripping the film "The Dish" and split it at the end of chapter 14, whereas if I'd just decided to split at 74 minutes it could have been in the middle of dialog or anything. Also having two seperate folders allows you to split the encoding time and just do a disc at a time - the only feesible solution for me at present when it takes 14 hours to encode a 2 hour movie!!

[Sefy]

Well, everyone has their own method for splitting, and as for DivX, I find it's quality is not even compared to VCD, and when it does have some decent quality, it's nearly at the size of a VCD anyway, so I might as well make a VCD which I can play on just about anything, wouldn't you think ?

[stanwebber]

whenever i span a movie over several discs i overlap 30sec(i.e. 30sec at end of disc1 is replayed at start of disc2 etc...) & split whereever. this task is a breeze with bbmpeg

[Sefy]

Well, it's like I said earlier, everyone has their own method, I can't cover them all in a guide, i'd need a whole webpage for it, and not to mention alot of patience