FairUse 0.4

[hhhhbk]

just read afonics guide for dvdripping using fairuse 0.4
http://fairuse.free.fr/
http://www.dvd-guides.com/guides.php?category=dvdrip&name=fairuse

and am now wondering how good the quality is compared to the long method of

dvd decrypter to rip vobs to hard drive
dvd2avi to extract the audio track and create the .d2v project file
cdex to convert audio to mp3
avi synth to crop and allow virtual dub to read the vobs
virtual dub to encode video
nandub to join video to mp3 audio

i expect fairuse to be a fair bit quicker but compromising picture quality is unacceptable
will probably try it myself
but am interested in others views before wasting an hour to setup and then losing the pc for 4 hours while it encodes

[reboot]

I like it. Exceptional quality as far as I'm concerned.

[hhhhbk]

better than / equal to / worse than virtual dub?

[DVWannaB]

Used both. I think the long method gives me a bit better quality. On the other hand, FairUse is extremely fast. I believe is uses some sort of a Quality VBR or maybe CBR type encoding (have not verified either), but I am pretty sure it is not 2 pass VBR.

Its a trade-off with speed with good quality or much longer encode with a bit better quality.

The only hang-up so far with FairUse I have experienced is it does/did not recognize PCM audio. So I had to encode video in FairUse and audio separately with BSweet and then multiplexed with VDmod.

[reboot]

I'm thinking the same thing, some sort of CQ-VBR.
It may only be my eyes, but FairUse (I think) does an exceptional job, and much faster than the "long" way.
Whether it's better than vdub? You'll have to try it and see for yourself.

[hhhhbk]

peoles opinions so far make me think that its worth trying
would be nice to only use one piece of software and should be far quicker setting it up

[RabidDog]

Well lastest version does pretty well.. Its not quick tho and it does do a standard two pass, it also does audio.. Generally very good quality..
fairuse0.41.. it also litters its Fud files (MAny GBs) on your hard drive

[Hairless Heart]

I've been using v0.41b for a few weeks now to transfer DVDs to my IPAQ and I must say I'm delighted with the results. Any methods I've used up to now have either been too complicated, or have produced pretty rubbish output.
I get it to rotate the image by 90 degrees, screen size 320 x 128, file size of around 200MB, output split into 10 chunks and the results are superb. Even in scenes with fast panning and lots of action, I'm not getting any artifacts.
The reason I split the movies into 10 chunks is that I've noticed that when I play movies on my Ipaq, the sound can gradually become out of sync with the video, which is obviously a real pain in the arse. When each chunk is only approx 10 minutes long, the sync problem doesn't have time to appear.
One strange thing I have noticed with a couple of movies I've converted though, the first 'chunk' out of the 10 will appear quite blocky, but the remaining 9 are totally perfect. No idea why this is yet and haven't done it often enough to see if there's a trend. Any ideas?

Doug

[deckard8]

Fuzzylemming posted a comment that FairUse is no longer free
and I told him to throw himself off a cliff - But I was wrong - apparently it's true - Sorry Fuzzylemming -grovel, grovel grovel! - Now I'm going to throw myself off a cliff - What a bummer!

http://fairuse.free.fr/lang_en/download_allopass.html

[samuraijack]

Yeah I found out about that too. Interesting how he started supporting PCM and MPEG audio right about the time he started charging for it. But I clicked on the link anyway. For about 2.00 bucks ( US) you can download it for thirty days. Im just not sure how I feel about shelling out 2 bucks every couple of months. Somewhere in the back of my mind I keep thinking I would rather just buy it and be assured of upgrades in the future. Still, I have to say, It is a VERY nice program.

But I still remember his sight saying that it would always be free...
Just my 2 cents

[FuzzyLemming]

and now it's free again
<shrug>

http://fairuse.free.fr/Release/download.php

[RabidDog]

mp3 IS mpeg audio layer 3, I thought its AC3 that requires some licence from ACforum