How do they do it??

[Dsypher]

Hi,

I have seen lots of ripped DVD movies that are near DVD quality or medium quality but the file size is always less than or equal to 700MB. I use SimpleDivX but I wasnt able to attain that kind of quality with a file size of just 700MB.

Thanx

[SCDVD]

These files are no doubt XVID of DIVX files. If you use a good software program like Fair Use Wizard, you can get very good results if you use a two-pass, high quality encoding mode. If you use a fast (low quality) single pass encoding mode, the results aren't nice.

[mats.hogberg]

With good knowledge on how to setup and tweak the XviD/DivX codec.

/Mats

[Dsypher]

Pls can sum1 xplain wats this "two-pass" and "one-pass"?

[mats.hogberg]

Put simply: With 2 pass, the codec looks thru the whole movie first, to determine where a high bitrate is needed, and where it can get by with a lower. Depending on what average bitrate you've told it to use, it then in the second pass starts encoding, distributing the available bits accordingly.
1 pass just uses the bitrate you've told it to use thruout the movie.
The downside of 2-pass, is that it takes twice as long to complete.

/Mats

[Dsypher]

Put simply: With 2 pass, the codec looks thru the whole movie first, to determine where a high bitrate is needed, and where it can get by with a lower. Depending on what average bitrate you've told it to use, it then in the second pass starts encoding, distributing the available bits accordingly.
1 pass just uses the bitrate you've told it to use thruout the movie.
The downside of 2-pass, is that it takes twice as long to complete.

/Mats

ok thanx...

Btw, FairUse Wizard is gr8 compared to SimpleDivX.

[mats.hogberg]

That'd teach you to stay clear of any application that includes words like "Easy", "Simple", "Eazy", "Express" & c. in the name!

/Mats
PS! One exeption: VCDEasy DS.

[celtic_druid]

Besides, if it is an mencoder front end, it doesn't encode with DivX anyway.

[whitejremiah]

yea, most one click wonders produce subpar results, your best to look through the guides section here......as for fairuse wizard, its a decent program however they do limit you (at least with the free version) to 700mb output last time i checked at least....depending on what your source is, this may or may not be acceptable......like for example, there's no WAY i would take something thats 3 or 4 hours that barely fits on a dual layer disc (retail or otherwise) and try and smash it into 700mb.....there are ways around this, though, i think.... (mind you i havent used fairuse wizard in a while myself) but you may be able to split your movie up with say smartripper or something ahead of time and feed it two or even 3 sets of vobs, let it spit out your output then throw the outputs together with virtualdub........once again it's been a while since ive used that particular one so i may even be mistaking on that, on the other hand it is a good program so you may just wanna consider buying it.........

[celtic_druid]

You can download my modified version of FU LE. It has no 700MB limit and is still free. I don't think it costs that much anyway.

[Dsypher]

Ok I found 1 problem with Fair Use Wizard.. If my DVD contains more than 1 movie, im not able to select the particular movie that I want to rip.

It only detects 1 movie.

Any ideas??

[mats.hogberg]

If you rip each movie (title) separately (with DVDDecrypter)? That's how I do it with avi.net

/Mats

[Methanoid]

Besides, if it is an mencoder front end, it doesn't encode with DivX anyway.

Whats wrong with Mencoder? The Xvid encodes I get from SimpleDivX (which really should be called SimpleXvid IMHO) are great.

[celtic_druid]

Nothing is wrong with mencoder. I use it myself and I would never encode with DivX. My problem is calling an app SimpleDivX when it doesn't encode DivX.

In my experience FU lets you select from the titles on the disc. Has worked fine for me when I tested.

[whitejremiah]

celtic druid, i did a little bit of googling to find your modified version of fair use wizard, and i've gotta say, it at least appears (if it works like it should) to be quite amazing.......good work with the added functionality (x.264 and the other ffdshow codecs)....

[celtic_druid]

I didn't add the ffdshow and x264 support. That was already there.

[stackner]

for me xvid and autogk

[winifreid]

Where do you download the modified version of fairuse wizard? Thanks

[whitejremiah]

www.google.com

celtic druid, then all you did was remove the 700mb limit? even if so, still a cool program even better than it was when i first strated using it a while back.........

[Baldrick]

just click on fairuse wizard....and check under other....

[winifreid]

Thanks

[celtic_druid]

Well I also enabled the source range setting. Quality encoding for DivX (I think? Don't have DivX installed). Updated the codecs and tools and packaged it in an installer.

[rwmol]

MEncoder supports Open Divx 4.0. Therefore, Simpledivx does encode to Divx. Just not 5.0

[celtic_druid]

I doubt that it is using a build with it enabled. Ok just checked and I can see 100% it isn't enabled since it is using my mencoder compiles.

Not even sure that it is possible to enable it under windows. Not tried myself since I can't see any point.