Best Converter

PanSpirit · Post by **PanSpirit** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:55 pm

i found a pretty good one last night.... its was the Dvd-to-avi program.... and same company has a Dvd-to-mpeg.... the Dvd-to-avi worked really good.... took 3hrs to convert one of my movies but the quality came out the best ive seen outta all the programs ive downloaded and tried... only issue with it was that i couldnt get few of my DVD's to convert.... like my inuyasha stuff.... guessin they have a hackers thing on it since all i could convert was the FBI warning... oh well... using the program i found though picture was excellent and sound wasnt too bad but not worried bout sound in the clips since sound is gonna get removed anyhow...

Rev. Takahashi Fan · Post by **Rev. Takahashi Fan** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:16 pm

Strax Rip and DvD decrypter are the best I have found so far. GKnot tends to corrupt the avi file before its made.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:20 pm

personally, I like DVD2AVI, but I think DGIndex is better (I think)
unlike the name suggests, don't try to use the program to convert dvd files to avi files (you'll still have blending, rainbowing and/or interlacing).

up to this point, I have followed VicBond007's guide (and still do for the time being)
in dvd2avi you should go to save project as, then name your file whatever.d2v
should take much less time, and you can use the d2v files in AviSynth

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:23 pm

gangstaj8 wrote:
imphill wrote:...as for the best DVD ripper...well why would you rip it? copy the vobs to the hdd and convert...
Umm, isn't that, technically, redundant?

Unless you've
(1) installed some sort of filter driver that decrypts the DVD data as it's being copied, or
(2) are working with unencrypted VOBs

no, using the usual facilities for copying won't get you what you want.

Additionally, some DVDs have copy protection mechanisms (i.e. RipGuard) that, unless worked around by other means, will confuse software that attempts to read the disc.

imphill wrote:...well why would you rip it?

If you have the storage space to hold the video data in its original form, transcoding is unnecessary.