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shane434
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_ 		7. February 2006 @ 01:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
what is the best format to convert a DVD to? I have alot of DVDs and an external hard drive I want to transfer them to. Wich format is best without losing quailty and and compresses it the smallest? Also what do you use to convert it?
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Rickster0
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_ 		22. February 2006 @ 00:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
divx player has a good encoder i think and then once it has encoded it and you are ready to burn it again at good quality you just run it through Nero vision express 2 and that will get all the quality good again when it is encoded it should be about 700 mb whichs is small compared to a DVD movie :)
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baaket_na
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_ 		22. February 2006 @ 14:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
divx is great.
small size, high quality.
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_ 		22. February 2006 @ 16:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
DVDSanta maybe helpful to you
it supports many formats including AVI, WMV, MPG, ASF, RealVideo etc..
you can try it
more info from here :)
http://www.dvd-ripper-copy.com/
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_ 		24. February 2006 @ 00:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i found DVDsanta to be very crap to be honest and i wouldn't recommend it :)
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MrBones
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_ 		24. February 2006 @ 08:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
What version of DivX? is it the pro version? or is it dr DivX? explain :P
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shane434
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_ 		24. February 2006 @ 10:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
OKAY I have tried DVX and other programs and can get the movies to under 1gb.. I do not care about the menus and extras and I am just compressing the main movie.. I have a few movies I obtained from a friend they are the full movie and no extras the file size is 280mb on one and 480mb on the other with no loss of quality.. they are in rmvb format. how did he get them that small and not lose quality???
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why_not20
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_ 		24. February 2006 @ 15:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i have tried to compress a dvd into DivX. however, when i add the VOB files, an error comes up saying "missing LPCM Audio Decoder codec". anyone know what i am doing wrong? thanks. o and im not hijacking the thread, my question is related.
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_ 		25. February 2006 @ 09:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i do this as well with my dvd's. i use dvd decrypter to remove the copy protection, and then autogk to make the *.avi. you can use either the divx or xvid codecs with autogk when encoding the video. i personally prefer xvid, because i think it looks better for the size.

you can adjust the target size or quality %. both programs are free, and work very well for most movies. only problem is dvd decrypter is no longer being updated, and will not decrypt some of the new stuff. you could use anydvd/clonedvd2 to decrypt them instead, but they cost money.

i've found that about 1 GB is a good size. this retains the ac-3 encoding (dolby surround channels). you can probably go down to 700 MB and still keep good video quality if you use MP3 for audio (but you'll lose the surround channels).
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