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Anyone know of a decent DVD to MPEG-4 converter?

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote] [b]White Hawk said:[/b] I don't think your hardware could be causing an issue with transcoding, though it may be worth making sure that your optical drive is running in DMA mode for performance reasons. [/quote] Oh, OK. Um, whats DMA mode? (Remember, I know very little about this stuff.) [quote] I never use DVD Decrypter any more, though I used to go through the whole day-long process of ripping the audio and video tracks individually, then re-laying them after encoding... I had endless problems with various DVDs, usually based on the fact that audio on most actually starts several frames after the video. Even staggering the tracks and playing with a calculator, I never did get Spiderman (for instance) synched perfectly, and the audio would gradually slide out of synch as the movie progressed. [/quote] :eek: Whoa. [quote]I tried IMToo one day, and haven't looked back since. I'm keen to know what your experience with this package is.[/quote] Actually, I downloaded the trial version yesterday and did some test runs on various videos ([i]The Matrix[/i], [i]The Incredibles[/i], [i]Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi[/i]) and had absolutely no problems, with the exception of the slight jitter on the tilts that I mentioned above. This only happened with [i]Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi[/i], though--the other films were pristine. I have some time today, so I'm going to try ripping other parts of the film and see if that same problem occurs. It very well might be something with the disc. [quote]Upon further investigation, the same company that developed DVD Region Free is now offering DVDFab Platinum - apparently, an all-in-one solution for de-restricting, decrypting and ripping DVDs. It appears to offer at least the functionality I've noted in IMToo. Might be worth a look - they have trial versions for testing, apparently. [/quote] I will check it out. Thanks. [quote] [b]CPrompt said:[/b] Now, you had mentioned that you wanted to play these DVD's on your iPod video. No problem. Once I have the region free un-encrypted DVD[/quote] Quick question: does the DVD need to be region free and un-encrypted for this to work? Because we take very good care of our DVDs and I have no desire to go through and make copies of all of them. [quote]Play it through VLC (have to play with the settings sometimes for Audio output mostly) and have it save as an mpg or avi (usually avi).[/quote] I've actually had a lot of problems with the VLC method. For one, it won't allow me to select the right caption stream on certain films. Like [i]Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi[/i]: I want the audio to play in Japanese (which it does), but no matter which caption stream I select, I can't get the Korean captions to display. Same thing with [i]The Matrix[/i] (kind of): it automatically displays the English captions and I can't turn them off no matter which caption stream I select. On top of this, the file that VLC produces is badly artifacted (or whatever that is--you know when you're watching satellite television and it gets those funky colored squares on the screen? That's what happens. A lot). [quote]After all of this being said, have you tried this : Decrypt the DVD, burn the results and see what happens. Does it still go out of sync? If so, then you may have a different problem.[/quote] What I have done is this: I've decrypted the DVDs using DVD Decrypter, and then I've played the resulting VOB file using VLC. It doesn't go out of sync, but it always seems to skip about ten seconds of both audio and video (which leads me to believe that DVD Decrypter is not working properly). So I'm pretty much screwed from the get-go. The reason the converted files go out of sync is because the dropped video gets left out of the file but the audio bit that goes along with it gets converted for some reason. [quote]was just playing around with this and this made some nice results. http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdx/ I used the method here : http://www.wikihow.com/Rip-a-DVD-to-an-AVI-or-MPG-File-Using-DVDx and it made a nice small file that I then converted with the iPod converter I listed above.[/quote] Thanks for the links. I've downloaded DVDx and will give it a try. I honestly don't know what is going wrong. All I know is that the free trials of the commercial programs I have tried have worked more or less flawlessly. So if DVDx doesn't get me where I need to be and I can't find another solution, I think I'm just going to go with the best commercial program I can find. Yeah, it would be nice to be able to do it for free, but if it's going to be this much of a hassle, it will be more than worth it to pay. I do appreciate all the advice and help. I almost feel badly for everyone who has tried to help me that this isn't working (if that makes any sense). [img]http://www.liminality.org/asylum/sigs/suho_taegeuk_sig2.gif[/img] ___________________________ Suho: [url=http://www.liminality.org]www.liminality.org[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/4837]Cell 270[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5689]Sig Rotator[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/22173]the Fellowship of Sup[/url] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/2031]Suho1004[/url] on 11-10-2007 07:11)[/small] Loading...
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