My first Divx movie

[SA000584]

I have just coded a 2Gb Dvd movie into my first divx movie of about 500kb in size using Divx converter 6.

While I am ecstatic about the video quality, the sound quality is a little average.

I need to turn the volume control on my receiver to -20 db instead of -40db when I am watching the dvd movie.

Is there any way to turn the recording level up so that I dont need to turn the volume up so much on my receiver?

Is is possible to keep the dolby digital soundtrack in a divx file ??

Any help would be appreciated.

[jokiin]

I have just coded a 2Gb Dvd movie into my first divx movie of about 500kb in size using Divx converter 6.

Now that is impressive, or was it 500mb maybe????

[SA000584]

Now that is impressive, or was it 500mb maybe????

Ooops...mb it is.

[jokiin]

And I thought you had found a hidden setting somewhere :dD You can do AC3 with various flavours of Mpeg4, not sure if DivX6 supports it though, the DivX user forums might have some more info. You might find that some people will suggest some other encoding programs that may not be quite as simple to use but offer a lot more configuration options. The user guides over at www.dvdrhelp.com are useful also.

[davidf]

I have just coded a 2Gb Dvd movie into my first divx movie of about 500kb in size using Divx converter 6.

While I am ecstatic about the video quality, the sound quality is a little average.

I need to turn the volume control on my receiver to -20 db instead of -40db when I am watching the dvd movie.

Is there any way to turn the recording level up so that I dont need to turn the volume up so much on my receiver?

Is is possible to keep the dolby digital soundtrack in a divx file ??

Any help would be appreciated.


BSweet is the best way to go about it.

http://actnow.site.net.au/convertor.zip

experimental app of mine that takes any demuxed ac3 and down samples it to 224kps (thats a 50% size reduction for 448k ac3 and a 33% reduction for 384k AC3) keeps the 5.1 and boosts it by 7db to compensate for signal degradation when resampling.

You can use nandub or avimux to remux the ac3 into the avi.

[daniel_wallis]

Hey,

"davidf" the link you provided is down. :(

Um...How long does it/did it take to covert a DVD to a divX/avi format?

Wouldn't mind giving it a try. :)

What program would people suggest to do this? :confused:

Thanks.

[Orfax]

Um...How long does it/did it take to covert a DVD to a divX/avi format? With Xvid codec, for 22 minute of footage around 35 minutes to convert. With DivX a little longer. Thats with AutoGK, so it may be different with other software. This is also hardware/CPU dependent, so my figures are for a P4 3Ghz.

What program would people suggest to do this? Under Windows XP I use AutoGK. But there is also Dr.Divx, Gordion Knot, WinAvi and no doubt others.

[davidf]

Hey,

"davidf" the link you provided is down. :(

Um...How long does it/did it take to covert a DVD to a divX/avi format?

Wouldn't mind giving it a try. :)

What program would people suggest to do this? :confused:

Thanks.

Sorry there has been a change to the site so I actually have to write a little html file with a link to the file (will do that tonight)

Encoding depends on a lot of things, size, quality, audio etc.


example - a 90 minute movie keeping ac3 and good quality (80% of DVD)

so XVID at 1400kbp sample rate approx 900 mb
AC3 at 224k sample rate approx 140mb

total time with rip, demux, video encode audio transcode on an athlon 2.8ghz processor with 1gb ram is about 120mins (1.5x realtime) on a newer 64bit machine can get down to almost realtime so machine speed is reasonable important(and decent memory, with 512 ram you increase the time by about 25%)

there is a great app at this site that does a very good all in one job for dvd to avi backups

http://nic.dnsalias.com/DVD2AVI_Nic.html

[daniel_wallis]

Hey,

"davidf" I went to the site that you provided and it states that the program could be bugged and some features may not work.

So would it be safe to download it?
AND
Have you downloaded it? Did it have any bugs in it and was there any features that did not work?

Thanks.

[daniel_wallis]

Um...Was I allowed to talk about this? :confused:
If not just tell me and i'll delete the post.
I'm sorry if I wasn't.

Thanks.

[davidf]

Hey,

"davidf" I went to the site that you provided and it states that the program could be bugged and some features may not work.

So would it be safe to download it?
AND
Have you downloaded it? Did it have any bugs in it and was there any features that did not work?

Thanks.

The software works very well the disclaimer is usual for software under development, I have been using it myself for a few months but have made a few adjustments to the original source in order to automate certain tasks a little more than the program had allowed for. Nic the guy who developed it is constantly in the doom9 forums and has on several occasions made quick fixes to the code when certain things needed attention.

[jokiin]

Your question is fine, the bugs will be referring to the program itself, most likely it's a beta version and it may not be what the developer considers to be fully sorted. It would be safe to say that it is fine, I have never seen davidf refer anyone to anything questionable, he has a history of offering sound advice and has very good knowledge in this area, I'm sure if you get stuck with anything he would be able to point you in the right direction.

Edit: beat me to it by a minute

[davidf]

I forgot to mention that nic's transcoder software requires avisynth which is a very stable and tremendous package for getting windows applications to recognise just about any video format that exists you can get this at

http://www.avisynth.org - get the latest version may 2005
( ignore comments such as prerelease and alpha version :) )

[daniel_wallis]

Hello,

I got the avi2dvd program and avisynth and the source code.

What do you do with the source code file?

1st. I've uploaded the movie onto my hard drive using dvd decrypter, which they advised me to do.

What do i do next?

Cheers.

[davidf]

Hello,

I got the avi2dvd program and avisynth and the source code.

What do you do with the source code file?

1st. I've uploaded the movie onto my hard drive using dvd decrypter, which they advised me to do.

What do i do next?

Cheers.

You don't want source code unless you are prepared to compile it. You need the avisynth installer

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/avisynth2/AviSynth_100705.exe?download

This version is only a few days old.

The best way to describe avisynth would be that it is a video driver for software. Unlike hardware drivers it is controlled by a scripting language, with things like nics dvd2avi program all the scripting is automated so once avisynth is installed you don't really need to know about it. If you need a step by step guide I will pm one unless others are interested in this sort of thing.

[jokiin]

If you need a step by step guide I will pm one unless others are interested in this sort of thing.

That would make a good sticky, I'm sure plenty of people would find something like this useful.

[daniel_wallis]

Could you kindly please PM or whatever a step by step guide on how to turn a dvd movie to an avi movie?

So far i've downloaded avi2dvd_nics program and i've got the latest avisynth program.
I've also put the dvd onto my hard drive using dvd decrypter.

Then from there, i don't have a clue where to go. :confused:

[davidf]

Could you kindly please PM or whatever a step by step guide on how to turn a dvd movie to an avi movie?

So far i've downloaded avi2dvd_nics program and i've got the latest avisynth program.
I've also put the dvd onto my hard drive using dvd decrypter.

Then from there, i don't have a clue where to go. :confused:

Give me a day...

[computerguy]

my friend once did something similar but i cant recall, try searching on google