DVD boxset to 1 or 2 DVD's using DIKO

[gidxg03]

Hi,

What I'm hoping to do is rip my favourite TV boxset (13 episodes - 4 discs) to Avi's. Then I'm hoping to use DIKO to encode and burn all the Avi's to 1 or 2 DVD's (I've been told DIKO should encode all 13 Avi's to 1 DVD with excellent quality ).

I'm using Fairuse to rip the boxset to Xvids @ resolution 640*352.

My first question is regarding resolution. Should I use 640*352 or should I use a higher resolution?

Any comments on the project? Should I use different software? Have I a hope in hell of getting all 13 episodes (approx 45min per episode) onto 1 DVD or should I aim for 2 DVD's?

Thanks in advance.

[yoda313]

Hello,

Are you burning the AVI file itself???

You need to make sure the bitrate is low enough to fit on the disc space. Check the tools section for a bitrate caclulator.

Why not rip and transcode with dvdshrink???? If you're burning it to dvd you obviously have a dvd burner and you'll get MUCH HIGHER quality on a transcoding job than converting it to avi.

Kevin

[gidxg03]

Are you burning the AVI file itself???

I'm ripping the boxsets to Avi's (Xvids) to remove all extras. I'll then convert to mpegs and author using DIKO.

You need to make sure the bitrate is low enough to fit on the disc space. Check the tools section for a bitrate caclulator.

DIKO will work out the biterate for me. It'll encode the total to DVD size (4.2GB's approx).

Why not rip and transcode with dvdshrink???? If you're burning it to dvd you obviously have a dvd burner and you'll get MUCH HIGHER quality on a transcoding job than converting it to avi.

The idea is that instead of doing 1-1 copying of the DVD's if I rip to Xvid then encode and author using DIKO (Which uses a kind of Kdvd template afaik) I'll be able to get all episodes onto 1 DVD and not loose too much quality.

[yoda313]

Hello,

The idea is that instead of doing 1-1 copying of the DVD's if I rip to Xvid then encode and author using DIKO (Which uses a kind of Kdvd template afaik) I'll be able to get all episodes onto 1 DVD and not loose too much quality.

Nope - conversion will lose quality no matter what you do. Transcoding loses quality too but usually very minor and not noticeable too many people.

In dvd shrink you can choose title only and pick just the episodes themselves. There's a video preview window so you can see which are the episodes and which are the bonuses.

That would be a better bet than converting to divx than back to mpg. The less converting you do the better off the end result will be.

Kevin