is there a dvd rippper out there that works that i can dl?

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 1:38 am

DivX = Good at sufficiently high bitrates

However, if you're going to import into a video editing program, intermediate DivX files = Inferior to the ErMaC method.

Larg0 · Post by **Larg0** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 1:14 am

If you have a Mac then you are in luck. A free program or OS X (and I think OS 9 too) called "forty-two" rips beautifully. The .avi files produced are very near the original DVD's quality with no color distortion. Here is a description from a site with it avalible for download:

"forty-two is a system, comprised of the forty-two.app GUI, the dvdmp and dvdvx engines and certain *nix tools used for video compression and conversion. It is designed to be a simple, hassle-free tool for converting DVD's to other formats, such as DiVX, SVCD or VCD."

"What makes forty-two different is that it is driven by logic; it determines proper encoding framerates, cropping etc and produces in-sync, set and forget results for all dvd types it supports. forty-two doesn't just pass switches to Open Source tools. It uses different methodologies from current make tools to insure that in sync conversions *can* be done, based on the content."

"forty-two will convert DVDs with ac3 audio to VCD, SVCD, DVD or DiVX AVI, including user rates. If your DVD is PCM only or DTS only, you can only convert it to DiVX AVI with forty-two at this time."

I used to have to use several programs to get marginal quality video, now I just drag the DVD icon onto the program and push start. An hour later and I have perfect video. This program is a must have.

So long,
Larg0

Ashton · Post by **Ashton** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 12:30 pm

Deaths_ally wrote:AVI (uncompresed) or Mpg are the best

Now, I don't know much about WMM, but I know for sure that there is no native support for MPEG1 in Premiere. Also, AVI uncompressed is kind of... unwieldy... to say the least. Huffy might be a better choice, but even that can be excessively large. Use DV if you get into trouble (I want to buy one of those hardware decoders!! They look sooooo cool!)

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 1:22 pm

Ashton wrote:
Deaths_ally wrote:AVI (uncompresed) or Mpg are the best
Now, I don't know much about WMM, but I know for sure that there is no native support for MPEG1 in Premiere. Also, AVI uncompressed is kind of... unwieldy... to say the least. Huffy might be a better choice, but even that can be excessively large. Use DV if you get into trouble (I want to buy one of those hardware decoders!! They look sooooo cool!)

Watch out for Canopus DV products. We have one here, and it sucks. Hard. The thing is cheap, and it runs at a decent clip, but the output is absolutely terrible.

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 7:04 pm

Ashton wrote:
Deaths_ally wrote:AVI (uncompresed) or Mpg are the best
Now, I don't know much about WMM, but I know for sure that there is no native support for MPEG1 in Premiere. Also, AVI uncompressed is kind of... unwieldy... to say the least. Huffy might be a better choice, but even that can be excessively large. Use DV if you get into trouble (I want to buy one of those hardware decoders!! They look sooooo cool!)

wtf

I've used MPEG-1 in Premiere just fine, besides all the side-effects of using MPEG-1.

BTW, don't take Larg0's advice. Ripping into DivX = bad.

SS5_Majin_Bebi · Post by **SS5_Majin_Bebi** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 7:07 pm

NDW, just shut the fuck up. Everything you say is wrong.

If u are gonna encode into DivX, use the quality encoding as opposed to a bitrate setting, and use 100% quality. Its handy, and decent enough for a beginner to use.

Larg0 · Post by **Larg0** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 10:19 pm

NicholasDWolfwood wrote:
Ashton wrote:
Deaths_ally wrote:AVI (uncompresed) or Mpg are the best
Now, I don't know much about WMM, but I know for sure that there is no native support for MPEG1 in Premiere. Also, AVI uncompressed is kind of... unwieldy... to say the least. Huffy might be a better choice, but even that can be excessively large. Use DV if you get into trouble (I want to buy one of those hardware decoders!! They look sooooo cool!)
wtf

I've used MPEG-1 in Premiere just fine, besides all the side-effects of using MPEG-1.

BTW, don't take Larg0's advice. Ripping into DivX = bad.

Please tell me how it is bad.

So long,
Larg0

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 10:21 pm

Because it's horrible to edit with. Not only are there not nearly enough keyframes, but it often causes both premiere and WMM to crash, as well as the whole quality degradion factor.

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 4:10 pm

SS5_Majin_Bebi wrote:NDW, just shut the fuck up. Everything you say is wrong.

If u are gonna encode into DivX, use the quality encoding as opposed to a bitrate setting, and use 100% quality. Its handy, and decent enough for a beginner to use.

wtf

Everything *YOU* say is wrong. I don't know what shit you're smokin', but DivX is bad to use. Besides the whole quality going down FACTOR, it makes Premiere and WMM crash.

BTW, MPEG-1 works in Premiere fine, but the quality is shit for editing and there's not enough keyframes.

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 7:02 pm

as far as the space to quality ratio is concerned mpeg-4 is better than 1 or 2, there is no disputing that. It may be a bitch to edit but it will look a hell of a lot better than if you used mpeg 1 or 2.