dvd/vob to wmv

[tgm4883]

I have tried a couple different programs and the best so far is river past video cleaner. I am re ripping all of my movies to wmv so i will be able to play them on my xbox 360 when it comes out. This is the process I have been using

1. Rip dvd in IFO mode with DVD decryptor
2. Use River past video cleaner to encode movies to wmv 9

the problem is that I am getting stuttering in the video, but the audio plays fine. I noticed that when i import the vob file into rpvc that it shows as having a framerate as 29.97. When i load the same movie into rpvc (but loading the already converted xvid file instead of the vob) i get 23.98. could this be the problem with the stuttering? I am reencoding the movie now, but it will take a while.

Another question is that i am getting a file that is roughly 300MB compared to a 1-1.5GB xvid. Is this normal?

[VirtualDoobMon]

Try it this way:

rip with dvd decrypter -- file mode (streams - use 2 ch audio if avail)
use vob2mpg
use WMV 9 encoder

works perfectly for me everytime.
hope this helps.

[tgm4883]

I reencoded it, no difference whatsoever. Perhaps it is the slow computer I am encoding it on? (800 mhz, 384MB ram) I am currently trying to encode it with windows media encoder to see if that works.

[jimmalenko]

It's probably a 23.97fps DVD with pulldown flags to make it play at 29.97fps, and you're encoding it at 30fps WMV, right ?



Just FWIW, this is the way I used to do it:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1353035#1353035


But lately I've been using M2PMCEncoderZX, along with a few mods I made myself by editing the two XML files that come with it to give higher-res profiles - m2pm.zip.

[tgm4883]

Thanks jimmalenko, I actually read through that thread and got ideas from there. My understanding was that if every time i reencode i lose quality. So i am reencoding twice, once to xvid, once to wmv, right? if thats the only way then i guess i can do it that way.

[tgm4883]

Ok, I have been ripping with dvd decryptor, converting to xvid with autogk2.20, then converting to wmv with river past video cleaner. To convert an hour of xvid to wmv it takes 4 - 5 hours. Is this right? Seems like it is taking forever.

I am encoding it on a win xp home computer with 256mb ram and a p4 2.8. I am running nothing in the background, and that is all I am doing on the computer at the same time.