Converting DVD to Xvid?

[jacatone]

I'm playing around with converting DVD's to Xvid and find the image quality is amazing, but turning a 90 minute movie into AVI takes about 5 1/2 hours. Is there a program out there that'll do this in a much shorter time. Also, is the Xvid codec better than the Divx codec? Just seems that way to me. Thanks.

[jimmalenko]

What software are you using ?

[mats.hogberg]

5.5 hours seems awfully long. I'd expect half that, judging by your system specs. However, it depends to quite some degree on what tools you use, and how you use them.

/Mats

[Lester Burnham]

5.5 hours seems awfully long. I'd expect half that, judging by your system specs. However, it depends to quite some degree on what tools you use, and how you use them.

/Mats

5.5 hours seems like a pipe-dream to me, using AutoGK, Xvid, and 2-pass (ie size constrained) encoding.

But then that is on an aging PIII 1GHz machine with 256M RAM

[offline]

Around 5 hours on a p4 2.7GHz laptop (I'm guessing that is what you have) seems normal (to me) for good quality DivX/Xvid. On a Pentium M, Turon or Solo spec'd laptop, it should be somewhat less.

There are possibly some tweaks that will improve your times, but we need more info from you about your software/settings..

[jacatone]

I'm using a P4 2.6 Dell Dimension with 1 gig of RAM and a ATI 9600 SE graphics card. The software program is Super DVD Ripper with Interpolate and 740 by 480 resolution and a single pass. Thanks.

[Relayerman]

I use AutoGK with 2-pass on a P4 2ghz w/1 gig RAM and that length movie runs about 3 1/2 to 4 hours with nothing else really running. With 1 pass it would take about 2 hours.

Relayerman

[jacatone]

Does the one pass give you noticeable image degrading? Thanks.

[Deaf Raiders]

am a little new to convert from DVD to Xvid. I rented a DVD from my library to rip and convert it to Xvid like my pal had done. hes away on holiday for a month (A MONTH? yeah..... i know) but i want to learn myself to convert DVD to Xvid and rip subtitles from it. Its the friends Series 3. I wonder what tools i would need it read on this post here

I would need AutoGK and a DVD ripping program i have DVD Decrypter and subrip to rip subtitles from the DVD is that correct? Now i never used AutoGK, so I don't know what the settings are and etc.... so do i just the the settings as it is??

Raiders