TV DVD to Xvid/DivX

[negon]

So I've got a CSI Season 5 DVD, and I have a Personal Media Player that plays Xvid and DivX. I know how to rip a DVD and convert to Xvid and DivX. Is there a way to take this TV episode DVD and rip each episode to a separate Xvid or DivX without ripping each episode individually?

[manono]

Hi-

You're a little bit unclear. If you're asking if you have to decrypt each episode separately, then the answer is yes.

[negon]

I was just wondering if there's a program that will batch decrypt/encode each episode separately.

[manono]

Ah. That's more jimmalenko's department. I wouldn't know. Sorry.

As for encoding, after you get them decrypted, AutoGK can batch encode for either XviD or DivX.

[negon]

Hmm...any chance I can decrypt to an ISO and use this to batch encode?

[manono]

Again, not my speciality, but I doubt it.

[jimmalenko]

The way I'd do it is to batch-rip the eps using DVDDecrypter and the commandline mode - see https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1373527#1373527 for a full explanation.

Then I'd use AutoGK's batch mode to do the encoding.

[jtoolman2000]

So I've got a CSI Season 5 DVD, and I have a Personal Media Player that plays Xvid and DivX

You have the original DVD set which I assume would play nicely on your player as well as look excellent on your TV but yet you want to purposely degrade them down to Divx/Xvid just because you happen to own a player capable of playing such formats? It would only make sense if you were trying to learn the process of convertion.

[negon]

Not really...I want the episodes to be portable. I'm a college student, and I want episodes on campus. I'm well aware of the quality effects compression has.

[jtoolman2000]

Using Nero recode to Nero Digital format is pretty easy to do and does and admirable job producing a MPG-4 I believe. You of course need the full Nero with the correct serial to activate Nero Digital. I have converted a full 2 hour movie to a single 700 meg or for even better wuality a 1400 meg file and it looks nearly as good as the orignal. Specially on a laptop. COnversion time is about 1.5 times the length of the movie on a good machine. You need to first rip using a ripper or simply run AnyDVD in the background so Nero Recode can directly decrypt, rip and convert sll at the same time.