poor quality avi

[Great_Big_E]

Hi all,

I'm having problems with getting quality video when I rip from DVD. I don't want to do whole movies, just music videos and clips. I've downloaded some DVD rip music videos from the internet that are really good at 45mb which is the size I'm looking to do myself. Here's what I've been doing to this point:

1. Rip the chapter using SmartRipper
2. edit down the chapter to just the bit I want and convert the .vob to .avi (video) and .wav (sound) using DVD2AVI
3. re-integrate video and sound using TMPGEnc into an .mpeg

Problem is the quality is pretty low. Where in this process can I modify the output to get better quality? How? Can anybody think of a better way to accomplish my goals?

Cheers,
E

[crahak]

Well, are you saving an uncompressed avi from dvd2avi??
Is it that AVI you saved that shows poor quality, or the encoded mpeg file spitted by tmpgenc?

[Great_Big_E]

In DVD2AVI I open the file and select the area I want to save with the [] buttons and then I click "Save AVI". It then asks me the compression I want. I've been compressing it as "Fast Motion mpeg4" (or something like that). I've tried "no compression" and the other option that sounds similar (sorry I don't have it in front of me), but a movie icon appears instantly and it contains 0 bytes; an error appears when i try to play it.

It's when it comes out of DVD2AVI that it's really blocky. It's not terrible but I'm sure there must be somewhere that I can alter the quality.

Cheers crahak,
E

[crahak]

Well, saving it as divx can be a cause of bad quality, depending on it's settings, it's best to frameserve it anyways.