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Please note, you should not use this guide to copy
commercial DVD's this guide has been created for those people who now own a DVD
writer and would like to copy their own wedding, birthday DVD's and give
to people who only have CD-ROM players.
Commercial DVD's are copyright, they are usually
protected with Macrovision, in some counties you are allowed to make 1 backup
for your own use, however any DVD's you have made with your own video clips
belong to you. The tools used here could be used to defeat DVD protection, some
of these programs are not legal to use in some country's.
You have been warned, I do not except any
responsibility for the miss-use of this guide, when it has been designed for
legal use in the copying of your own DVD's
Smart Ripper
This program can be used to quickly copy the
contents of your wedding DVD to your hard drive, this is a lot easier than
lengthily explanations on copying across VOB files and IFO files, again you
should not use this program on commercial copyright DVD's only your own.
DVD X V 1.7
The new versions of this program can give lip sync
problems, support is via a paid forum, this guide will demonstrate the use of
the older V1.7
Some DVD drives will need to be "Un-locked" Before
you begin, it is a good idea to run your DVD playing program and play the
DVD in the drive, then close the program and start smart ripper.
Load smart ripper, if the drive is unlocked it
will now scan the disk and read in the contents. Remember if you have one large
movie you can use the defaults. If there are several small movies on the disk,
you may need to select them later.
This program will select the largest movie on the
DVD, if you need to select any other items you will need to select them
manually. Since we are only interested in the main movie, you can use the
defaults.
Browse to a location on your hard drive to save the
files, and click START
Wait until the program has copied the main VOB
files to your hard drive, these will automatically be split into smaller sections,
you can change this if needed.
Close Smart Ripper and load DVDX 1.7
DvdX has a Pentium 4 optimised version, make sure
you load the right one, select from its menu File > Open IFO
Browse to the location you saved the files and
select the .ifo file
Just ignore this error, as you have already copied
the files to your hard drive, so wont be using this program to do the work. It
is less wear and tear on your DVD Player to use smart ripper and not try and
convert the DVD direct.
The next screen will pop up and ask for some input
settings
You can follow the above screen settings, and
click OK.
Next select the output setting
Here I have selected the one that's more difficult
to make. (AVI)
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From the drop down menu select AVI
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Click the audio codec, and select PCM
(Uncompressed)
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Click the Video Codec and select the codec you
wish to use, above I selected DivX 5.1
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Click the "Whole" button on Max Frames
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On the Volume don't exceed (For Compressed
AVI) select Infinite
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On Misc, select the number of frames that
should be encoded before one shows (This is preview not important)
If you were selecting a Mpeg 1 for VCD, you may
need to run it through TMPGEnc Merge&Cut to get the Muxrate corrected for VCD
compliance. (See below)
Click Apply to the above settings.
You should now have your home movie shown in the
middle box
If you need to adjust anything, you can do this on
the output setting. Experiment with the zoom, or just use the size for a VCD
output, depending on what your going to do with the file later. If your sending
it by email to your friends, you can keep the aspect ratio and maintain the
black borders.
Select where you want to save the file and click
the Encode button
On some systems its too much to compress the video
and audio at the same time, for this reason I have selected uncompressed audio (PCM) which will
prevent lip sync problems, later this can also be compressed in Vdub
Vdub
Now that you have saved the file, you may wish to
compress the audio, this was saved above as PCM, so is very large, load
Vdub and select the file you just made.
Audio > full processing mode
Audio > compression > Codec > (Select audio codec) > Bitrate (44.1Khz, 128Bit
????)
Video > Direct stream copy
SAVE AVI
The file will now be a lot smaller, you can
experiment with the different codec settings, a 80 min home movie should be
around 700K with high quality, much smaller sizes can be achieved but at a cost
to the frame size or quality.
If you selected Mpeg 1 as the output in DvdX there
is nothing to change, however the muxrate may be slightly out, to correct this
use TMPGEnc split merge
TMPGEnc
File > Mpeg tools > Merge & Cut
Select Mpeg 1 Video CD from the drop down list
Click add, and select your Mpeg1 file
Select the output, and click start
This will give a 1150kbps Muxrate and correct any
slight errors from the output of DVDX
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