Encoding DVDs

Maybe there's something wrong with your video playback codec, since I use Handbrake all the time, mostly on default settings, with no problems. Have you tried playing the video on another computer?

Or maaaybe... there's some background process holding your PC up... I'm sure a 2.4Ghz Celeron should cope.. but just not 100% sure...
 
why don't you use another programme such as WinAvi Video Converter 8? It's a great little app that i always use. another good one is TMPGENC Xpress 4. That is by far theeeeeee best video conversion software. the quality it produces is absolutely stunning.
 
Celeron can do xvid playback but H264 I'm not so sure about. It may give you speed problems then again you should try the steps below:

1. Download and install the Combined Codec Community Pack (CCCP).
http://www.cccp-project.net/ (It's NOT just for anime fansubs :) )
There are issues with certain older codecs and associated apps (like Morgan Switcher).
2. Defrag - drive or at least delete files if you have low space
3. Disable Antivirus
4. Turn off indexing for your media drive
5. Make sure you don't have malware running on your PC - run Taskmanager and see
if there are any cpu hogs running, Comodo Pro Firewall hoggs the CPU sometimes
like 80% for long periods, you may have something similar, legitimate or malware.
6. Use Media Player Classic (included with download above) to play the files, check the settings for least CPU heavy options.

Between Xvid and H264, both are of similar quality to filesize - the newer H264 gives slightly better filesizes for the same quality but Xvid is much less CPU intensive, use Xvid
instead as it encodes faster and watches more smootly - unless you really need a few megabytes less space per file.

Your problem may just be buggy 3rd party audio drivers. Also make sure you're encoding the Audio as MP3 and not AC3, that may give issues too.
It may be a problem with the drives and direct sound/direct x 2d, etc. Installing the CCCP and running their included players fixes these problems.
I had problems running VLC and watching H264 Clannad Fansubs as subtitles would not appear, installing the above and uninstalling some components
I had from before (CCCP install did that automatically) fixed some performance problems for me on this Pentium M laptop.
 
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carderne said:
I've got the K-Lite pack installed. I'm using GOM Player to play them. Lovely media player with built in codecs for nearly everything that plays all of my media files perfectly (apart from RM obviously, though it can play them, albeit with bit of mission).

I definitely don't have any malware as I'm pretty careful about what I install, am hardly ever connected to the internet.

I have NOD32 installed and would normally turn this kind of thing off before trying a CPU intensive process but I neglected to for some reason, but I will turn it off next time.

Could it be dated gfx card? How involved is graphics cards like this in video encoding?

I don't think defrag is necessary, as my 320GB drive is about half full and I rarely delete huge chunks of data...

Will try doing XviD with MP3.
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why do you have two media players then? that could be the problem as you could have conflicts with the codecs. my advice is to uninstall GOM and just use Media Player Classic that you get with K-Lite.
 
You can also try VLC media player from www.videolan.org. It is not dependent on windows codecs, as they are already compiled in. This sorts out a lot of problems. Been using it for probably three years now :)
 
carderne said:
I don't have media player classic installed, and I really doubt that it would cause a conflict anyway, as GOM doesn't add any codecs to the PC, but uses its own seperate coded system (and uses other installed codecs when necessary).

I installed K-Lite and unchecked the Media Player Classic option, if you're wondering.
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oh ok, so it's similar to VLC then? VLC has its own codecs and media player.

so then you just installed K-Lite for the codecs but you're using GOM to play movies etc...?

i've been using VLC to watch movies and stuff for years now and like the previous poster said, and i've had no problems with it.
 
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3 steps -

1 - Rip to iso with DVD Decryptor

2 - Reauthor using DVD Shrink ( no compression )

3 - Convert to DIVX with DrDivx - around 1.4 Gig per movie.

That's what works best for me. The 3rd part takes a few hours though.
 
daveza said:
3 steps -

1 - Rip to iso with DVD Decryptor

2 - Reauthor using DVD Shrink ( no compression )

3 - Convert to DIVX with DrDivx - around 1.4 Gig per movie.

That's what works best for me. The 3rd part takes a few hours though.
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too much work which means too much time. just download a dvd-ripper that does all of this for you. ImTOO DVDRipper does all these in one step. There are tons of these available on the net.
 
VLC is not perfect. It gives issues with some subtitled (multiple subtitles) or multi-audio H264 files. VLC's deinterlacing algorhytms are also not that hot compared to what PowerDVD/WinDVD or Mac DVD player give you. I also use VLC on Mac and PC but
only as a second line player.

Anyway if you're still having issues, download an h264 file from the web and see how that plays. It may be just that your CPU is not strong enough. Your video card does not aid in encoding or decoding as these cards usually only aid in MPEG2 hardware decoding.

I've use IMTOO DVDDecrypter, MPEG Encoder (commerical) sometimes - its nice to do everything all in one step but the IMTOO stuff is a bit buggy - it doesn't always want to read all DVDs etc.

FairUSe Wizard is a light version of a more advanced commercial product. It works well.

Handbrake is probably one of the best, I would continue using that for encoding.
It feels like a commercial product and unlike the IMTOO products which cost $$$,
its interface is not buggy at all.

If all else fails, download CCCP and try it out. I'm sure K-Lite is good too, probably identical but maybe it has codecs which are more cpu intensive.
 
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