vob to divx (avi)?

Dolby

Dolby

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Hi,

Anyone know a free program that can do this? I've ripped my DVDs on my PC for backup, but at 5GB for one I'm using a ton of space! I heard divx will make them around 1/5th of the size with minimal quality loss?

Also, what happens to the Dolby Digital soundtrack on my movies?
 
If you hadnt already ripped the dvds I would have said handbrake.

Try Gordian Knot. :)
 
tian. said:
why wouldnt handbrake work? :confused:

works fine with DVD's that i've copied to my hdd with DVD decrypter... :cool:
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Interesting - never knew that. I've used it with disk images but never vob files. Thanks. :cool:
 
Dolby said:
Hi,

Anyone know a free program that can do this? I've ripped my DVDs on my PC for backup, but at 5GB for one I'm using a ton of space! I heard divx will make them around 1/5th of the size with minimal quality loss?

Also, what happens to the Dolby Digital soundtrack on my movies?
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Gordian Knot

I dont know about the soudntracks, it gives options in Gordian Knot that I dont understand.

I'm making all my .vob files into 2GB files (default is 2 x 700MBs). It takes about 3.5 to 4 hours per .vob on a 2.6GHz single core Athlon 64...
 
Rather than divx/xvid I'd spend the extra time and encode using h264 (but that's a personal preference).
 
bwana said:
Interesting - never knew that. I've used it with disk images but never vob files. Thanks. :cool:
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maybe it's just the windows version :D :p :rolleyes:

anyways, i'd recommend using Handbrake to encode to H.264. It might take a bit longer than DivX, but the quality is worth the wait. Frekken impossible to see the difference between the original and the encoded vid. :)
 
Brillant, thanks! I will try Handbrake.

Excusie the ignorance though .. what is the extension of this? Also .avi?
 
GordianKnot works very well...BUT...I'm surprised there isn't something simpler to convert DVDs to AVI without compromising on the end quality or encoding options.
 
Ps. If the end result isn't an issue. Nero Recode does a sterling job of converting DVD* to .MP4. Unfortunately alot of stand-alone players dont support this yet.

* You have to decrypt it first.
 
I did, but that didn't work out either. This stuff is a black art to me.

I've got it working with MagicDVDRipper, but I'm not going to lie - it reeeally grates my carrot having to pay for something like this.
 
chiskop said:
I did, but that didn't work out either. This stuff is a black art to me.

I've got it working with MagicDVDRipper, but I'm not going to lie - it reeeally grates my carrot having to pay for something like this.
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Exactly what are you trying to do?
 
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