High Quality XviD Back Ups!

[HellaNooB]

Hi, since I am hella noob, I decided myself to start this threat, I wanna back up all my skatevideos DVDs, I found this site using Google and made a big research back in the days... I wanna back up all my videos to XviD, but I have a doubt in which Tutorial to use:

I was thinking in use this one:

http://www.bobsomers.com/articles/encoding-dvds-to-high-quality-movie-files-with-xvid-and-ac3-1/

Should I use other or this one is ok since all my videos are like 30 minutes long and I don't need to split them to fit in CDRs.

Here's the link of all DVD to XviD tutorials of VideoHelp.

https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?formatconversionselect=DVD%20to%20XviD

So, here's the question: Which tutorial should I use! (sorry for the redundace).

Thanks.

[jtoolman2000]

Don't mean to be challenging but,,, You already have these on single DVDs? WHy do you want to put them on single CDs. Or are there multiple 30 minute shows in each DVD? Solely from what you state, it makes no sense why you would want to covert to XVID ( always a slight quality loss ) and burn back to disc form again. If you want them to recide on your hard drive or burn a bunch to a DATA DVD/R to play on the PC ( not TV ) then that makes sense. If you are simply trying to learn DVD to Xvid conversion, then that also makes sense.

Please tell us more.

[HellaNooB]

Hmmm... I think you didn't get...

I have the DVD, the original one with menus and such... I want to encode all my collection to XviD! And, I will burn them as data in DVDRs! =)

[jntaylor63]

I do the same with my DVD that won't fit well on a DVD-R

I use AutoGK and set the total file size to 3850. If it needs all of the space, it will use it. If not, it will reduce the file size.

But as you have diferent clips and not one main movie, I would use a bitrate calc to find the bitrate for the total amount of run time for your clips that will fit on a DVD-R. Then use the bitrate calc to use that bitrate with the run time of each clip to get the file size you need. Set that file size in AutoGK for each clip. I use the Divx Bitrate Calc to do this.

With AutoGK and Xvid, I get back-ups that look equal to the DVD. On a 50" HDTV, I gust don't see any difference. You can shrink a 150 min movie down to acouple of cd's and expect it to look good.

[HellaNooB]

OMG, my english sucks more than I thought!

Ok now, I have a DVD collection and I want to XviD them, which guide should I use?

See list below:

https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?formatconversionselect=DVD%20to%20XviD

Thanks.

[giannid]

AutoGk is one of the easiest to use.

http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/autogk.htm
http://www.autogk.me.uk/modules.php?name=Tutorial

[mats.hogberg]

...or avi.net

/Mats

[Scarpad]

Why not just reauthor the DVD in DVDShrik?

[greymalkin]

i don't think dvd shrink is going to give the same "magnitude" of compression he is looking for while hoping to retain some quality.

[SCDVD]

Fair Use Wizard is also a good way to go.

[SingSing]

What is the compression ratio of DVD mepg2 to Xvid are you expecting ?

[celtic_druid]

Any "High Quality" guide would not recommend VFAPI and VDub filters. For quality rips, use AVISynth, also don't resize, encode anamorphically like the DVD.

All the above 1 click style apps (AutoGK, FUW, etc.) should give you better quality than that guide.

[giannid]

What is the compression ratio of DVD mepg2 to Xvid are you expecting ?

You might expect the Xvid file to be roughly 20-30% of the size of the DVD mpeg. It depends on what kind of quality you want - but generally if you take a 5 GB mpeg you can usually expect very good quality with a 1.4 GB xvid.