I have a large DVD Collection of 500+ Movies. And I am starting a project to where I am basically making my own Movie On Demand type of thing. The first step is to rip all my DVDs to my home server. I am wanting to rip them all at DVD quality.
I am looking for a software that supports Multi-CPU and Multi-Core if possible as my Home Server has Dual Quad Core CPUs. I would like to take full advantage of all that horse power if I can.
I have tried a few different ones but they always seem to either have the video and audio out of sync or the video is all screwed up.
It doesn't have to be freeware but if there is any that will work that would be a plus.
Originally posted by Igmutaka: A lot of people say AutoGK
But in my experience it took me 3+ hours to do 1 rip.
im trying AutoGK right now on 3 computers (1 Desktop, 1 Server, 1 Laptop) and all 3 have been running for about 30min and there has been no CPU usage on either PC.
But I think I found the problem. I was using the default of using Xvid.. I changed it to DivX and now its using 90% of each core.
I noticed the application gives almost zero progress information. is there a setting that I need to turn on or did they just not think to telling the user how much time is left.
Im new to Ripping DVDs so im not sure what is the best to use. But I work in IT so its not hard for me to figure out an application.
I am converting them to .avi. Right now I am trying DVD Shrink to copy the .VOB to my server and AutoGK to convert the VOB to AVI and it looks to be working well each file is coming out to ~900mb - 1.4gb in size and it only takes about 20-30 a movie. I am keeping the resolution at DVD quality as they will be played on all my TVs in my house.
I would like the file sizes to be a little smaller but I have more then enough space for them. The files will be going on 3x 1.5TB drives in at Raid5 configuration so I have a 3GB drive volume with a on the fly backup drive. So if one drive fails the backup will kick in and take its place with no data lose.
DVD Shrink is fine but it is a little outdated so you may run in to issues when ripping newer DVDs. That is where DVDFab HD, etc come in.
That file size is correct for a decent bitrate - file size and quality are directly related, so you have to decide what it is you are happy with. You could set the output to lower but it will lower the quality (700mb is by no means a *bad* picture quality though).
You could always merely run multiple instances of these applications and do it that way, but as far as it goes your actual process is sound.
well my system is no where near small.. Dual Quad Cord 3ghz CPUs (8 cores) with 8gb of RAM and the VOB and AVI files are on 2x Raptor drives in a Raid0(2 drives running as 1).
But that is on my Server. My "normal" PC does it in about an 1.5 - 2 hours its got a dual core 2ghz cpu.
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Ill try the 700mb size and see how it plays on my TVs. I just don't want it to pixelate.
Ill try the DVDFab HD.
and is there anything you could suggest other then AutoGK?
You could merge the .vob files into one large one using VOBMerge, and then convert it with SUPER - it is a very customisable application and I tend to use it for all my conversion jobs. It also lets you choose from a variety of encoders, so you can play around with that if you choose to.
You'd need to merge the .vob files first because SUPER is a basic application in that respect and won't convert multiple files to one output (to my knowledge), but it is very good at what it does.
For example, with SUPER you could lower the audio bitrate and increase the video bitrate to keep video quality and file size while compromising on audio, etc etc.
FYI, I'm running an i5 750 2.6GHz and merging a full DVD vobset took about 5 minutes.
