any tips to improve my ripps

[ovejon]

I've been ripping movies for some time now, and i've noticed that i've been doing some things wrong. I have questions for some of the prog that i use.

Ripping:
1. Should i select demacrovision for my rips or not, I followed the setting sefy established in his guide.

dvd2avi:
1. If the movie I ripped is not film should i choose none for field operation
2. What should I choose for audio? should i encode separately to mp3?

Tmpge:
1. should i use interlaced or not? If yes, which field order?

Any suggestion would be appreciated.

[poopyhead]

Ripping:
1. Should i select demacrovision for my rips or not, I followed the setting sefy established in his guide.

No, you don't need to. demacrovision just removes the protection in the original dvd that prevents ppl from making VHS copies of it...won't affect your encoding.

2. What should I choose for audio? should i encode separately to mp3?

channel format: autoselect
DD: decode
mpeg audio: demux

Tmpge:
1. should i use interlaced or not? If yes, which field order?

this is a little bit complicated and stems back to dvd2avi. when you make a project file in dvd2avi, an "info" box should appear, telling you the video type of the movie (mostly some percentage of FILM and NTSC).... usually, if the movie is 90+% FILM throughout the majority of the movie, i will turn on force film. however, this may not always be the case (i.e. man in the iron mask was 96% FILM, but it had a short section that was really, really, really interlaced (NTSC), so i couldn't use force film) hence, you need to check your rip to make sure there are no major interlaced sections (i.e. usually has horizontal lines and jumpy)

if you choose force film in dvd2avi, then in tmpgenc, your output video should be 23.976 fps + 3:2 pulldown (NOT INTERLACED), 4:3 display NTSC. source field order in this case shouldn't matter, but i've heard of problems.

if you choose to turn OFF force film in dvd2avi, there are two things u can do.

1) IVTC
2) make your output video 29.97 fps + INTERLACED (not 3:2 pulldown, actually tmpgenc won't even allow u to select this if you set your fps to 29.97) source field order is critical in this case. if you haven't messed with this before, my best bet is to encode a short segment of the movie, then burn it on a cd-rw and test it on your TV (field order problems usually appear much, much worse on TV)