Batch convert from hard disk

[exon]

I have a couple of hard drives full of my DVDs that I hope to ecode. I have a Link Theater DivX DVD player, so I'm encoding them to DivX.. In the few tests I have tried, I am blown away by the quality of video using the default 'home theater' option!

However, I'm running into a problem when I try to batch convert the VOB files.

If I use the DivX converter (drag and drop), it recognizes the sequential VOB files, crops out the black bars, and gets the aspect ratio correct. But the audio is always an issue: either it is too quiet (AC3), or it is out of sync, or it is the wrong audio (from another DVD), or it just isn't there.

If I use Intervideo's DVD Copy 5 Platinum, I get great quality video in a much faster time than the DivX Converter (as long as I go to DivX AVI, going to DivX makes menus and takes longer) and beautiful synced audio. Sometimes the aspect ratio is wrong, though (I can fix with VirtualDub). My main complaint is I can't figure out how to batch process the whole hard drive's worth of movies. It has a tool called 'Copy Later', but it doesn't recognize sequential VOBs, making it worthless (unless I'm just doing something wrong)..

Is there a better way?

Thanks

-Matthew

[Baldrick]

AutoGK, select movie, add job, repeat for all movies...and last encode all.

[exon]

Ok, I tried AutoGK..

It seemed to be taking forever to encode, so I stopped it and re-set the output size to 60% (one-pass)..

I tested two movies, Justice League 'Justice On Trial' and Justice League 'Joining Forces'..

AutoGK encoded both movies in about 1 hour 45 mins, Intervideo encoded both in about 40 minutes..

The AutoGK 'Justice on Trial' had the wrong audio, and the 'Joining Forces' had the audio out of sync.

Intervideo encoded both fine.

Am I doing something wrong?

-Matthew