RIP DVD to MPEG2, Edit, Convert to DivX

[davephan]

I expanded my disk space. I have many recordings that I archived onto DVDs. I would like to rip the DVDs to MPEG2, then edit with VideoReDo, then convert them to DivX (VideoReDo cannot edit DivX files).

I checked "#1 DVD Ripper", it can rip to MPEG2 or DivX, but cannot convert an edited MPEG2 file.

Does anyone have any recommendations for this process?


Dave

[stanger89]

Doom9 is the place to look for all DVD to better compression format info.

[Wheemer]

AutoGK can convert your edited mpeg2 files...

[jbarr]

Question: Are there any command line capable Windows applications that will transcode a source DVD fileset (VIDEO_TS) to a target directoty where the resulting file set will fit on a standard DVD+/-R?

Let's assume that I have a VIDEO_TS DVD file set on an unprotected physical DVD. Importing it into SageTV is as simple as just copying the VIDEO_TS directory into a named sub-dirctory of a video import directory defined within SageTV. That's simple enough.

But say the original file set sits on a dual-layer disk, and is larger than a standard DVD+/-R. Normally, one would use something like CloneDVD or DVDShrink to create a new, compressed file set.

But are there any command-line utilities that will copy and transcode the entire file set?

If it was command line driven, I would think incodporating its functionality into SageTV would be a snap.

Again, the source VIDEO_TS file set will be UNPROTECTED.

[nielm]

mencoder can do it one title at a time...
example command lines for creating an AVI from a DVD

Use command line parameter: -dvd-device "d:\Path\to\DVD\root" to read from a DVD filestructure on-disk

[Slack]

Rip - DVDDecrypter
Edit - Womble Mpeg Video Wizard
Encode - AutoGK

I like AutoGK in particular because you can keep DTS and DD5.1 tracks intact. Even keep 2 audio streams for an Xvid or Divx file.

[Mark SS]

Only played around but the following worked quite well:

DVDShrink
VideoReDo
AutoGK

[davephan]

Originally Posted by nielm

mencoder can do it one title at a time...
example command lines for creating an AVI from a DVD

Use command line parameter: -dvd-device "d:\Path\to\DVD\root" to read from a DVD filestructure on-disk

Nielm,

Could you give me a sample command line to create an AVI file from a MPEG2 file? I would like to try the two pass conversion.


Dave

[nielm]

same as in the link above, but replace 'dvd://2' with your file name
see also:
http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showthr...der#post101599