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How do I make a high quality DivX/Xvid DVD rip?
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<blockquote data-quote="CEN" data-source="post: 2040018" data-attributes="member: 601236"><p>I really appreciate the thought and effort you put into writing a detailed and specific question. I can't tell you how many times someone writes a question that simply reads something like "How do I burn a DVD to my computer?", which as you can imagine, is difficult to address. When I answer those questions, I tend to feel ambivalent about even putting much thought into it, since I can usually tell that the asker won't understand what I'm saying anyway.</p><p></p><p>On the contrary, you make it easy to come up with a solution. </p><p></p><p>I'll tell you how I rip DVDs in Windows:</p><p></p><p>I first rip the VOBs from the physical DVD using DVD Decrypter: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/DVD_Decrypter</p><p></p><p>Now get Gordian Knot: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gordianknot/</p><p></p><p>Open your project files in Gordian Knot and use SubRip, which is included with Gordian Knot, to rip the subtitles from the disc. Since you said that you only want the subtitles to show at certain times, you can choose which subtitle streams you want to extract and which ones you don't, if there is more than one. </p><p></p><p>If there's only one subtitle track, then you'll have to actually edit it yourself so that you delete all of the subtitles for the time ranges in which you do not want them to show, leaving only the subtitles for the non-English scenes intact. Subtitle Workshop can be used for this: http://www.urusoft.net/products.php?cat=sw</p><p></p><p>You can save the subtitles in SRT format from Subtitle Workshop if you want. That's it for subtitles.</p><p></p><p>Open DGIndex from within Gordian Knot and let it extract the audio streams.</p><p></p><p>For video, get ffmpeg for Windows here: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/ffmpeg</p><p></p><p>Open the commandline by going to Start->Run and typing in "cmd.exe". Don't worry; you don't need to know any DOS for this. </p><p></p><p>cd into the directory where you saved ffmpeg. For example: </p><p></p><p>"cd C:\Programs\ffmpeg"</p><p></p><p>Type:</p><p></p><p>"ffmpeg -i <inputfilename> -vcodec mpeg4 -b <bitrate> -aspect 16:9 <outputfilename>"</p><p></p><p>"mpeg4" here means "XviD". It will play in any XviD-compatible software media player or hardware standalone player. Here's a chart to help you choose a bitrate: http://forum.doom9.org/archive/index.php/t-95410.html</p><p></p><p>It could take a very long time to encode the video. Once it's done, open ffmpeg again and do the audio, which should be easier:</p><p></p><p>"ffmpeg -i <inputfilename> -acodec libmp3lame -b 192k <outputfilename>"</p><p></p><p>If you have two audio tracks, such as a spoken dialogue track and an audio commentary track, just repeat that command for the second file, replacing <inputfilename> with the file itself, which you extracted with DGIndex. </p><p></p><p>Once that's done, you should have a finished XviD video file and one or more MP3 audio files, as well as your subtitle track(s). Here's the fun part: muxing. </p><p></p><p>You can actually do the muxing in ffmpeg. There's an easy GUI for this included in MeGUI, which you can get here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/megui/</p><p></p><p>Open MeGui. It will probably ask you to update it, requiring you to close and then reopen the program. Once it's updated itself, go to Tools->Muxer and choose the Matroska Muxer. This will cause a new window to open up. In the new window, you will need to choose the video file, audio tracks and subtitle tracks. Choose your video file and then choose the primary audio track (the one you want to play by default). You can choose from a drop-down menu the language and then you can enter in your own descriptor if you want. Right click on the audio tab to be able to add a second audio track. This can be the commentary track. You can choose the language again and enter something like "Director's Commentary" in the descriptor field. Then you can choose your subtitle file that you made earlier. Again, you can choose the language that gets displayed in media players from a drop-down menu. You can also right-click to add a second subtitle track if you need to. </p><p></p><p>Finally, click "Enqueue" and then in the main MeGui window choose to start the job. Hopefully it will work. MeGui crashes for me all the time in Vista x64, sometimes making it necessary for me to try several times before whatever I'm working on actually succeeds.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: And I think Colanth is probably correct about the legal issues. Gah,,,,Fair Use is complicated stuff!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CEN, post: 2040018, member: 601236"] I really appreciate the thought and effort you put into writing a detailed and specific question. I can't tell you how many times someone writes a question that simply reads something like "How do I burn a DVD to my computer?", which as you can imagine, is difficult to address. When I answer those questions, I tend to feel ambivalent about even putting much thought into it, since I can usually tell that the asker won't understand what I'm saying anyway. On the contrary, you make it easy to come up with a solution. I'll tell you how I rip DVDs in Windows: I first rip the VOBs from the physical DVD using DVD Decrypter: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/DVD_Decrypter Now get Gordian Knot: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gordianknot/ Open your project files in Gordian Knot and use SubRip, which is included with Gordian Knot, to rip the subtitles from the disc. Since you said that you only want the subtitles to show at certain times, you can choose which subtitle streams you want to extract and which ones you don't, if there is more than one. If there's only one subtitle track, then you'll have to actually edit it yourself so that you delete all of the subtitles for the time ranges in which you do not want them to show, leaving only the subtitles for the non-English scenes intact. Subtitle Workshop can be used for this: http://www.urusoft.net/products.php?cat=sw You can save the subtitles in SRT format from Subtitle Workshop if you want. That's it for subtitles. Open DGIndex from within Gordian Knot and let it extract the audio streams. For video, get ffmpeg for Windows here: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/ffmpeg Open the commandline by going to Start->Run and typing in "cmd.exe". Don't worry; you don't need to know any DOS for this. cd into the directory where you saved ffmpeg. For example: "cd C:\Programs\ffmpeg" Type: "ffmpeg -i <inputfilename> -vcodec mpeg4 -b <bitrate> -aspect 16:9 <outputfilename>" "mpeg4" here means "XviD". It will play in any XviD-compatible software media player or hardware standalone player. Here's a chart to help you choose a bitrate: http://forum.doom9.org/archive/index.php/t-95410.html It could take a very long time to encode the video. Once it's done, open ffmpeg again and do the audio, which should be easier: "ffmpeg -i <inputfilename> -acodec libmp3lame -b 192k <outputfilename>" If you have two audio tracks, such as a spoken dialogue track and an audio commentary track, just repeat that command for the second file, replacing <inputfilename> with the file itself, which you extracted with DGIndex. Once that's done, you should have a finished XviD video file and one or more MP3 audio files, as well as your subtitle track(s). Here's the fun part: muxing. You can actually do the muxing in ffmpeg. There's an easy GUI for this included in MeGUI, which you can get here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/megui/ Open MeGui. It will probably ask you to update it, requiring you to close and then reopen the program. Once it's updated itself, go to Tools->Muxer and choose the Matroska Muxer. This will cause a new window to open up. In the new window, you will need to choose the video file, audio tracks and subtitle tracks. Choose your video file and then choose the primary audio track (the one you want to play by default). You can choose from a drop-down menu the language and then you can enter in your own descriptor if you want. Right click on the audio tab to be able to add a second audio track. This can be the commentary track. You can choose the language again and enter something like "Director's Commentary" in the descriptor field. Then you can choose your subtitle file that you made earlier. Again, you can choose the language that gets displayed in media players from a drop-down menu. You can also right-click to add a second subtitle track if you need to. Finally, click "Enqueue" and then in the main MeGui window choose to start the job. Hopefully it will work. MeGui crashes for me all the time in Vista x64, sometimes making it necessary for me to try several times before whatever I'm working on actually succeeds. EDIT: And I think Colanth is probably correct about the legal issues. Gah,,,,Fair Use is complicated stuff! [/QUOTE]
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