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Posted by French Toast on Sat Apr 8th at 4:26pm 2006

Alright, I'll just give my little disclaimer that there's nothing illegal with this.

I just got my iPod Video, and I"m trying to put some DVDs of MOnty Python on it. I'm looking for a program that'll convert DVDs to something normal like Mpegs or AVIs etc. preferably for free.

Does anyone have any suggestions?




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Posted by Crono on Sat Apr 8th at 6:16pm 2006

Don't they have to be MP4?

You can use a Divx ripping program and either choose a compatable codec from there, or convert it when it's done ripping.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by French Toast on Sat Apr 8th at 6:40pm 2006

No, I have a good program that takes any file at makes it MP4 blazingly fast, but it won't do DVDs.

I found a DVD-To-Mpeg program that takes forever, and I don't know how well it'll turn out, but I shall find out in just over an hour.




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Posted by Crono on Sat Apr 8th at 6:57pm 2006

If you're curious I found this: Handbrake

It rips DVDs directly to MP4, AVI, OGG ... whatever you want if you have an encoding codec available.

There's a stable OSX building ... and a buggy WinXP version ... but people are saying it works alright. You can find that here.

Now, you should be aware this will take hours to do. You have to understand how llarge a DVD is, first off, and realize the fact that the video and audio streams are being converted to another encoding. That takes a lot of time. 2+ hours would not be unusual.

Anyway, there's also a guide here. Give it a try.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by French Toast on Sat Apr 8th at 7:05pm 2006

I"ll go give that a shot, as this program decided not to tell me that it'll only do half of the file before it makes me pay.




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Posted by Crono on Sat Apr 8th at 7:09pm 2006

I should note, I'm checking out the Windows version right now, and it's really sub-par. It'll work, but it's barebones, while the functionality is still there, the interface is not the best. But it'll still work, I'm checking it now, from an already backed up dvd (yes, I own it) and it's going to take about an hour and a half.

Also, to run it run "wxHB.exe", since there's no guide or ... hint that that is the interface.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by French Toast on Sat Apr 8th at 7:20pm 2006

Yeah, I got through all that and now I'm choosing my options. The guide is kinda useless

I'm pretty much using defaults 'cause I'm afraid to touch anything And I'm using XviD codec 'cause it's the only one I recognize

Just started it, and so far it's doing nothing...

EDIT: OKay, it's doin somethin. ETA is 2 and a half hours...

RE-EDIT: ETA spiked to over 3 hours, but it's already at 4% complete... so either I can't do math or whoever made that ETA thing sucks.




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Posted by Forceflow on Sat Apr 8th at 8:04pm 2006

? quote:
No, I have a good program that takes any file at makes it MP4 blazingly fast, but it won't do DVDs.


Well,don't try to rip your DVD directly to MP4, then.

There are thousands of guide on the net on how to backup DVD's to Divx, Xvid or whatever format you like.

Personally, I use DVDx to rip my DVD's to DivX. (Good guides at www.doom9.org)


:: Forceflow.be :: Nuclear Dawn developer



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Posted by French Toast on Sat Apr 8th at 10:47pm 2006

Well, the program Crono suggested does work, and sends it right to mp4, albeit quite slowly.

I just ripped Live at Slane, maybe I'll try a different program for the next one and decide which one I like more.




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Posted by rs6 on Sat Apr 8th at 10:58pm 2006

It goign to take a while no matter what program you use. It has to first decrypt the DVD, then encode it. So depedning on what type of computer you have it could take 20-30 minutes to decrypt the DVD alone, and then it has to encode a 1+ hour movie, which could take hours.



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Posted by French Toast on Sat Apr 8th at 11:23pm 2006

I'm going to try ForceFlows suggestion for sure, the other program made the video look so ugly. Hopefully I won't be able to tell on such a small screen, but it's ugly.




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Posted by Gwil on Sun Apr 9th at 12:41am 2006

Gotta love the non sensical without taking context into account paranoia :P

Won't dbPowerAmp do it? Seems to do everything else...




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Posted by French Toast on Sun Apr 9th at 1:29am 2006

Problem is I've never heard of any of these programs, I'm trusting your judgement

And ForceFlow, that DVDx thing is stupid. It says everywhere that it's freeware, but I have to pay $33 USD to download anything.

EDIT: Okay, did some searching and found a free version.

EDIT AGAIN: Curses, it can't read the disk... neither can the other program... methinks it's protected or something...




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Posted by Crono on Sun Apr 9th at 3:12am 2006

Ripping to divx takes an hour or so too ... then you have to convert it to MP4 ... which takes another 30 minutes or so, in most cases.

and iPod's resolution specification is 320x240. So, of course it'll look like ass on your computer which has an enomous resolution in comparison. I don't know if iPod has any built in video smoothing either, so it's very possible it will look fantastic when everything is all said and done.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by French Toast on Sun Apr 9th at 3:48am 2006

Ah, as I suspected the video looks fine on my computer. Not super-duper highest quality, but better than most of the stuff I have. Plus there's no audio-sync problems <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by mazemaster on Sun Apr 9th at 4:20am 2006

If you are on broadband downloading the video may take less time than ripping it, and on uni networks downloading is in fact much much faster.


http://maze5.net



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Posted by Windows 98 on Sun Apr 9th at 10:34pm 2006





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Posted by Gwil on Sun Apr 9th at 11:01pm 2006

Windows 98 - you're posting links to crack sites?

Get a grip..




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Posted by French Toast on Sun Apr 9th at 11:59pm 2006

Hah, brilliant.




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Posted by Windows 98 on Mon Apr 10th at 12:07am 2006

hence the coughing

Message submitted 0 minutes after original post:

but also, did you need to get rid of the program link too? There was nothign illegal there.


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