Need a little insight.

Stryker · Post by **Stryker** » Sat Mar 01, 2003 8:37 pm

Ok, I’m trying to squeeze as much space outta my hard drives that I can , but with bigger ideas and only 15 gigs to use for saving the VOB files (and a serious lack of funds)…something will end up going horribly wrong. I would like to take my DVD rips and encode them into something smaller; perhaps fitting two or three episodes onto a single 700MB CD. What I need help with is choosing the right method of encoding, codec wise. With several different ways to go, (DivX, Mpeg, Xvid) I just need to know what my best bet would be for re-encoding would be without loosing too much quality, and still fit a 20 – 25 minute episode into roughly 250 MB. Any true insight into this would be greatly appreciated.

The Non-Professional · Post by **The Non-Professional** » Sat Mar 01, 2003 9:03 pm

...I really dont think thats possible...

BigDude · Post by **BigDude** » Sat Mar 01, 2003 10:15 pm

Damn, your having the same problem I am... except in not running out of space

The only thing that I could find that could do anything like that was this DVD2AVI program.
Link: http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/Decoders/DVD2AVI_176.zip
Or maybe thats the step after changing it to .m2v... or is that the same thing... this whole thing confuses me...

Anyway, that'll change .m2v into .avi with DivX codec or Xvid. Anyway, thats how I shrank mine, to .avi DivX. It works.

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Sun Mar 02, 2003 12:57 am

Heh, ok. Well. I'll tell you now you're either going to use XviD or RV9 for your video, either vorbis or mp3 for your audio (well or ra8), and either ogm or avi (or rm) for your container format, depending on what you want to do. It sounds like you're trying to store them for editing later, in which case avi is your only real option and none of the codecs are a good idea. In the case that you're just doing routine dvd backup ogg or rm would be better (especially if you want both audio streams and subs).
Basically what you'd need to do is rip the DVD, use DVD2AVI to create a d2v project file, use avisynth to frameserve and filter that, use virtualdub or helix producer to encode the video, besweet to encode the audio, and subrip to convert the subtitles, and then depending on which format you chose oggmux or virtualdub to mix the audio and video.
Feel free to ask more questions, although this thread should be moved to general video :\

Stryker · Post by **Stryker** » Sun Mar 02, 2003 7:59 am

RadicalEd0 wrote:Heh, ok. Well. I'll tell you now you're either going to use XviD or RV9 for your video, either vorbis or mp3 for your audio (well or ra8), and either ogm or avi (or rm) for your container format, depending on what you want to do. It sounds like you're trying to store them for editing later, in which case avi is your only real option and none of the codecs are a good idea. In the case that you're just doing routine dvd backup ogg or rm would be better (especially if you want both audio streams and subs).
Basically what you'd need to do is rip the DVD, use DVD2AVI to create a d2v project file, use avisynth to frameserve and filter that, use virtualdub or helix producer to encode the video, besweet to encode the audio, and subrip to convert the subtitles, and then depending on which format you chose oggmux or virtualdub to mix the audio and video.
Feel free to ask more questions, although this thread should be moved to general video :\

That's a lot of good info to chew on. Basicly saving them for leter editing is the plan. And as long as I've been coming to these forums I can't belive that I forgot about the general video section...maybe the mod could move this thread where it really belongs. Once again thanx for all the good input. I plan on putting it to good use.

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Sun Mar 02, 2003 10:05 am

ok, it generally isnt a good idea to try editing material encoded in divx or xvid, but you can be a rebel. In this case you dont even need the audio or subtitles, so all youve got to do is encode the video in preferably XviD. In the mean time, you can IVTC, resize to the correct aspect ratio, filter, and otherwise get rid of all the nasty crap that dvds have.
If you need I can tell you the avisynth filters to use and such, I'm gonna go right now though :| check back later