2 hours DVD movie, ripped in 4 hours

[tienquang2]

I am new at this. I was able to rip a 2 hrs movie to VCD in 4 hours time.
Am I too slow? I have an AMD Ath 900 Mhz.

I have read an article on fitting a movie onto one CD. It seems that you would have to rip the movie to AVI; then convert it to MPG in TMEGenc via special settings. Can you do this direct from DVD to MPG using the
DVD2VCD prog.

Thanks for all the response...

[mrbingley]

Seems about the right length of encoding time for your CPU.
I don't think the quality will be good enough if you start trying to put a 2 hour film onto one disc, up to about 100 mins seems to be the limit for decent quality. ( well that's with my eyes )
Cheers
Chris.

[tienquang2]

I thought I had done something wrong. Because I ve read on this forum that some people are getting like 10 to 14 hours for ripping a DVD. I thougth that was rediculous, b/c with all that times I can spend $20 a pop for a movie.

[Mirror_Image]

with all that times I can spend $20 a pop for a movie.

Absolutely right, and it's still the best way to go for top quality as well as compatibility with 100% of the DVD players, especially if you know you are going to watch it many times in the future (like "Blade Runner", et al.). Sometimes, you can't buy the DVD (i.e. the first 3 Star Wars films - the good ones, not the recent trash), and so you do what you have to.

[tienquang2]

To me, ripping all these movies and re-installing them in a less-quality version (VCD) is just a hobby. I really enjoy doing this. I wish I could do it in 1:1 time though, meaning 1 hour ripping or less per hour of content. That would be so coo. :P

[Bluesox]

I dont think putting two hours at quality is unreasonable. I ripped a two and a quarter hour movie with full 5.1 soundtrack to DVD at the same quality that it came on the original DVD.
No menus or anything though.

[Jukka]

Am I missing something? Why do people use DVD2AVI and then TMPGEnc to encode to VCD? I use TMPGEnc to encode the ripped VOBs direct to VCD MPG either at full rate of 'fit one CD' rate. Do I get lower quality this way, or is it longer??

[mikerios]

they use DVD2AVI to framserving, it will create a d2v file which TMPEGEnc wil then use when encoding to VCD/SVD/DVD mpeg.

[tienquang2]

Isn't it better to use DVDx to rip directly from DVD disc to mpg, then burn those mpg files to a cdr to make a VCD.

I read on Doom9 forum that DVDx can be setup to copy directly from a DVD to CD writer with just a button. Meaning, put your DVD movie disc in DVD player on your PC, then put a blank CDR in your CD writer, then hit a button. If this is true, that would be so neat.

Can someone confirm this? Thanks for all responses.

[Dogs_Gonads]

I've used them all,and found DVDx to be far better and a lot easier to use than other leading brands.
Would recommend DVDx to anybody who wan'ts to have an easy to use software .
Cheers

[Akai Rounin]

Why...?

Am I missing something? Why do people use DVD2AVI and then TMPGEnc to encode to VCD? I use TMPGEnc to encode the ripped VOBs direct to VCD MPG either at full rate of 'fit one CD' rate. Do I get lower quality this way, or is it longer??

I do it because I get to Preview the video format and make notes. I use DVD2AVI because I want to be able to select a specific audio track and output it as a separate file from the video. TMPGEnc (and VirtualDub) seems to work a little more reliably when audio and video are in separate files as opposed to the same one. I also like being able to tweak various settings as I go along. I doubt your method is lower quality, just different is all. I look at this very much from a hobbyists' perspective, I think it's just fun. Besides, the frameserving part doesn't add too much time to the overall process. It's usually over in less than half an hour for a 90 minute feature on an AMD Athlon XP 1500+ with 512 MB DDR RAM. Perhaps I'll try going direct from VOB as you suggest, to see how I like it. I do know that I would prefer for movies to be on a single disc and thus I don't bother with SVCD. Maybe I will once I get a DVD burner, but I think that's quite some time away. Though the prices on them are much lower than before, they still aren't at my personal "willingness limit" for purchase.

HUN-YA!

Akai Rounin

[tienquang2]

Thanks Akai for the input. I have not try the software in detail, but your notes are really worthy for a newbie like me.

It seems to me that if you have a faster computer, the processing time will be reduce tremendously. I have an AMD Ath 900MHz; it takes me 2 hours for every 1 hour of content. Maybe I have to upgrade to an AMD Ath XP of at least 1.5 GHz. Am I right?

Thanks for all responses.