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Part 1.
To copy a DVD you first have to convert it to a different format, because the Mpeg-2 format that is used on DVD's produces files around 4 Gig. The best format to convert a Dvd to is DivX.
BEST Method, SBC (Smart Bitrate Control) Using Nandub
The probably most talked about encoding way. Smart Bitrate Control (SBC) introduces a new way of encoding DivX: Changing between DivX low motion and DivX high motion on the fly, even at frame level, complete control about the internal codec setting parameters and 2 pass encoding for maximum quality and complete final size predictability. Of course it's not as easy as loading an IFO in Flask, selecting a profile and press Flask it, but the time is certainly well spent. Strongly suggest that you first acquire the basic ripping knowledge before daring this step, because there's quite a lot of variables which make encoding somewhat less than a piece of cake. If at some point you feel confused about what you have to do you should ask yourself: Am I better off using Fair Use? It will give you very good quality at possibly considerably less effort. But of course, if you want to get the best out of DivX this is the (hard) way to go.
Step 1): Rip the DVD (Smart Ripper) (Copies the DVD files from the Dvd to your hard disk and decodes it)
There are a few rippers around, but the best ripper by far is Smart Ripper. Smart Ripper is very simple to use and also is one of the few IFO parsing capable rippers, which means that it automatically drops not-needed information during the ripping process, which makes it ideally suited for the task.
To use smart Ripper, First Insert a DVD, wait for drive power up. Then Fire up smart ripper, a short authentication process will take place which will make sure all files are readable, . If there's any problem with unreadable files run a software player, start playing the movie, and close the player, the rerun Smart Ripper
After this you will be presented with a display similar to the one on the left of the screen.
Make sure you are in "Movie Mode". Next select a location to save the files. and check you have enough drive space.
Once ready, choose a destination directory at the bottom, and click "Stthis art". process should take about 15-40 minutes, depends on the speed of your DVD-ROM drive, the speed of your hard drive, and the number of VOB files.
Step 2): Create a DVD2AVI Project (DVD2AVI)(Saves the Dvd files as a movie project)
At first let's clarify one important issue: Even though DVD2AVI can encode a VOB file directly to an AVI this is no good idea since it lacks important facilities as aspect ration adjusting or resizing. But it's THE program when it comes to decoding an MPEG-2 stream.
Firstly you'll have to load your VOB files. If the files are consecutively named selecting the first VOB will load all the others.
The next step is finding out what kind of movie we're dealing with. Press F5 to start the preview. Let it run for a bit and watch the status window.
Here's two thing you may want to write down: The first is Aspect Ratio. Here you'll either get 16:9 or 4:3. Actually it shouldn't say Aspect Ratio but DAR since the aspect ratio of a movie is something else (1:2.35, 1:1.85 or 1:1.33 would be possible values for this value). So keep in mind: DVD2AVI's Aspect Ratio is our DAR. The other is the frame type.
Frame Rate = 25.000 fps: your source is PAL and you can skip the following step.
Frame Rate = 29.970 fps: Let the preview run for a couple of minutes, then take a look at the Video Type: If it's FILM at a percentage higher or equal to 95% you can activate Forced FILM as shown below. Otherwise you will have to perform IVTC.
Only necessary if your movie is equal or above 95% FILM
The next step concerns audio, or actually the deactivation of the audio functionality. It appears that the Graphedit/Vob2audio solution is much more reliable and less prone to synch problems. So simply select None as track number to deactivate the audio functionality of DVD2AVI.
Now you'll just have to create a DVD2AVI project file which can then be processed further.
This should take less than 10 Minuets
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