Insert your DVD in your DVD ROM, and start up DVDDecrypter.

DVDDecrypter will automatically select the movie, and create a folder on the main harddrive.

Press the Start Button

When the process is finished close down DVDDecrypter

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 Open DVD2AVI

        

 

 

 

Open SwiftAVS

 

Select Open File, browse to your ripped folder and select the DVD2AVI project file, next under
Avisynth Version select Avisynth 2.5x.

If yon noticed that the video had interlaced artefacts as discussed before in the DVD2AVI section, under IVTC/Deinterlace select Deinterlace.

 

Open DVD2AVI project file.

 

Cropping

Select Crop & Resize tab

Select Manual Crop: select Crop button.

 

A new window will appear.

Move the slider bar until, the black bars are noticable, and crop the with the tools provided.

Close the window, click OK when the Crop MOD4 window appears.

 

Resize

 

 

(Still on the Crop & Resize tab)

Select Completely Manual Resize in the boxes type in your desired Aspect Ratio.

Select Bilinear in the Resize Filter drop down box.

Saving the Script

Select the Output tab

Click on Generate AviSynth Script and then Save the AviSynth script.

Close SwiftAVS

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If your DVD came with multiple dubbed audio tracks and/or commentaries, open the audio files with
Media Player Classic(you may need AC3 filter 0.70 installed). Select which tracks you want.

(If your going to burn the video to a DVDR or the video you wish to convert has a short running
time, you can use the demuxed ac3/mpa tracks intstead, so you can skip the Audio section.)

Click Options>> again,

If you chose MP3
Leave default settings Preset: Alt ABR andMode: ABR

Go to Bitrate:
Leave the default settings or chose a higher or lower bitrate.

If you chose Vorbis
Leave default settings or change the Quality.

Repeat the Audio process for the other audio tracks. When I use more than one audio track such as commentary by directors/actors I select a lower bitrate such as 56kbps for MP3 or set Vorbis Quality to 0.00 (64kbps) for CD or use higher rates if burning to DVDR..

Once the encoding has finished close Headac3he.

Go to the ripped folder and determine the size in MB for all of the mp3 or ogg audio files. What I do is, enable the Status Bar in Windows Explorer (View>tick Status Bar), next I press Ctrl on the keyboard and select/highlight all mp3/ogg files, and the Status Bar will give me the size in MB.

Take a note of the size.

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Subtitles

Open SubRip select the VOB button in the top right hand corner.

Browse to ripped folder, open IFO file..

Select desired Language stream from the drop down box.

Select Start

Now for the tricky section... What is required for you part is to type in the characters, first character for my part is the uppercase letter A (as shown above) which needs to be typed in. Each time you type in a character SubRip rembembers the character, so usually you will need to type that character once.

 

If SubRip selects two characters during the process, simpilally type in the two characters (as shown above).

If characters that dont occur on the keyboard such as ©, ½ etc, select the Character Map and search for correct character, and copy/paste into Subrip.

Some problems can occur such as the percent character(%) , SubRip may only select ° of the percent character, so what I do is type in % for the SubRip ° selection, then just click OK for the other sections of %.

When finished go to Corrections>Post OCR Spelling Correction, in the bottom window.

 

Select your desired language click Correct!

Go to Output Format>Set Output Format.

Highlight SubRip (*.srt) click
Convert to this Format.

In the top window go to Character Matrix>Save Character Matrixs File

his saves the DVD subtitle characters in SubRips ChMatrix folder, so when doing another DVD, you can check if you have already saved the DVD subtitle characters, by selecting Search for an existing Matrix that match for this Character

Finally in the bottom text window go to File>Save As and save in your ripped folder.

It is usually a good idea to check the spelling, open the saved subrip file with notepad, and copy and paste all into a program that supports spelling checks eg Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.

You can repeat this process for other languages/commentaries to add to the video, when doing so remember to select Search for an existing Matrix that match for this Character.

 

Sometimes while watching a DVD someone will speak in a foreign language briefly and subtitles will appear. As an example, while watching Lord Of The Rings an Elf will speak elvish and english subtitles will appear for translation. These subtitles wont appear in the language drop down box, so you have to enable Forced Subtitles, here is how you do it.

Go to Options>Global Options

 

Tick- Force subtitles only

click OK

Select Start

and do the process as discussed.

 

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Chapters

open ChapterXtractor

 

Under Raw Data tab select Open IFO, browse to your ripped folder and select the IFO file.

Select Format tab

next to Preset: drop down box select OGG

Save data as chapters

Close ChapterXtractor

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Now we have an AviSynth Script, one or multiple Audio tracks, one or multiple Subtitle file and Chapters.

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 Open VirtualdubMod

Go to File>Open video file... or press Ctrl+O and select the AviSynth script you made with SwiftAVS..

                 Go to Video>Fast recompress

 

 

Select Import and open the chaptersXtractor file.

Next look on the DVD cover, their you will find the chapters hightlight the first chapter and write in Name: the first chapter eg 1.Logo/Credits. Select Edit, do the same for the rest of the chapters. For myself I take an easier way, go to http://www.blockbuster.com type the movie name in search, in the movies details page select DVD Features: where usually the DVD chapters are kept, and copy and paste the chapters. You will need to use the keyboard for pasting
(Ctrl V) into VirtualDubMod Chapter section.

When finished click OK.

Go to Streams>Stream list

 

 

Select Add go to your ripped folder and select your first desired audio stream, do this step for other audio streams, then do this step again to add your subtitles.

Image on the right shows
two audio streams(1&2) and two subtitle streams(3&4).

Click OK

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Video Bitrate

 

In the VirtualDubMod main window click on the End button , which will bring the slider to the end of the Track Bar
which will show the movies length. Take a note of the length eg 1.35.48.749 (1 hour, 35 minutes,48.79 seconds)

 

 

Open Ecuadors AVI Bitrate Calculator
(Dont close VirtualDubMod)

 

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Compression

Go to Video>Compression or Ctrl+C

A new window will appear.

Select DivX Pro(tm) 5.1 Codec
Click Configure
A new window will appear.

Click the DivX Codec tab

 

Click the Video tab
Psychovisual Enhancements
use default settings

Go to Max Keyframes
Max Keyframe interval .... frames
For PAL movies type in 250.
For NTSC movies type in 300.
Click OK

 

Optional
Select Settings in the lower left corner.

Check Disable the feedback window

 

Click OK to bring you back to the main window.

Next to File name: type in the movies name
eg Sanjuro

Next to Save as type: select
Ogg Media File (*.ogm) in the drop down box.

Check Dont run this job now; add it to job
control so I can run it in batch mode box .

click Save

Go to Video>Compression or Ctrl+C (again)

 

 

Select DivX Pro 5.1 Codec (again)
Click Configure
A window will appear.

Click the DivX Codec tab

Go to File>Save as... or press F7
A window will appear.

 

Click on the Main tab
Go to Dub defaults
Next to Process priority click the drop
down box and select Idle.

 

Next step

 

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