Dr. DivX

[jorwex]

anyone tried this program? it prolly has nothing on other programs, cuz its an all in one thing..and those usually arent too good..

http://www.divx.com/divx/drdivx/

just curious..

[Baldrick]

it is not a capturing tool so I'm moving this topic.

[Baldrick]

it could capture so I'm moving this topic back to the capture forum...

[jawgee]

I'm an encoding newbie, though I've copied many a DVD before. If I hadn't copied a DVD before, I think I would have been confused trying to figure out how to rip a DVD since that process is not included in this app. So, with that said, it may not be an app for total newbies.

I decided to give this app a try since I never encoded a DVD to DivX before & the thought of figuring out all of the different encoding steps was daunting to me. I decided to encode a widescreen NTSC version of "Stuart Little" since it was rather short (84 minutes) & it was the closest DVD in my reach at the time.

I walked through the easy to follow steps of Dr. DivX with the only change to the defaults being the resultant file size. The default file size was going to be 754MB, but since I wanted to eventually archive this file, I decided a 700MB file would be better for my purposes. Plus, I figured a 700MB file would be big enough for a movie that was only 84min long.

I let the program run overnight last night. I woke up with an .avi file 5MB less than what I had specified & a log file to go along with it. I noticed that the file took about 4 hours to create by looking at the date created property on my Celeron 1.5GHz laptop. Playing the file in Zoomplayer 3.0 looked beautiful. Not the best DivX/XviD file I've ever seen, but definitely more than acceptable.

Two bad things happened, however, that ruined this file for me:

1. There was no speech, just music. Before using Dr. DivX, I made sure I had the latest AC3 filter installed, 0.68b. When I ripped the DVD, I included all audio tracks & when I went to preview the audio in Dr. DivX, I heard speech. Also, during the credits, the music was skipping badly. Not sure what's happening there, but it could have something to do with problem #2.

2. The length of the file was much shorter than the original DVD. The length of the movie on the DVD is 84 minutes, while the length of the movie in the DivX file was 67 minutes!!! Both versions included the same chapters & credits. I played the DivX file in Zoomplayer 3.0, WMP 9, & the included DivX Player.

Does anyone know how to fix these problems that I'm having? Otherwise, Dr. DivX looks very promising for newbies.

Thanks,
jawgee