Computer Video Guru? A Chance For You To Feel Smart: (757 hits)
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Submitted by gbusman (View user info) at 2004-10-15 12:25:22 EDT
I appeal to you, the Uber population, to once again solve my computer quandry.
I have sitting here the Star Wars original Trilogy DVD set... Wow, if you haven't picked this up, get it NOW. It's amazing.
Anyway, I want to put these on my computer in a file format that I can edit, preferably a stardard avi, mpg, or other standard format. However, I don't want any loss of information. I'll keep a 5 Gig file on here if I have to.
I've used Gordon Knot to create a Divx file to the limits of the compression algorithm, and it's just not good enough. This is Star Wars damnit, and Internet trading capable quality is just not an option. I have Adobe Premiere that I plan to learn once I get a suitable set of files to edit. I have the VOB files that GK ripped, which appear to be the raw video, but I can't seem to work with them in Premiere.
So to summarize, I'm looking for DVD quality video and 6-channel audio in a single file that I can store on my spacious hard drive. Any suggestions for tools for ripping, encoding, editing, and playing would be greatly appreciated.
-Bus
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Submitted by genocidic001 (user info) at 2004-10-15 15:54:03 EDT (#)
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Agreed, awesome reply, kai!
Submitted by gbusman (user info) at 2004-10-15 15:37:01 EDT (#)
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eh, scratch that... It appears to work, and plays well in my ATI player... but in windows player (and when editing in premiere) it skips around a bit...
I think a VOB uses mp2 format, but it's a little more than just an mp2 file. It's capable of containing multiple audio tracks and subtitles I think... Anyway, just the straight renaming isn't quite doing the trick, no matter how I try to extract it with DVD Decrypter... what a pain in the ass.
-Bus
Submitted by strider (user info) at 2004-10-15 15:14:03 EDT (#)
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well .vob is just mpeg2, isn't it?
Submitted by gbusman (user info) at 2004-10-15 15:01:48 EDT (#)
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Well I'll be damned. Turns out you can just take those VOB files from DVD Decrypter and rename them .mpg and they work just fine. How bout that?
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2004-10-15 14:24:31 EDT (#)
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I agree this was funny
Submitted by kai070169 (user info) at 2004-10-15 12:54:50 (#)
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I suggest you reroute power from life support and emit a high resonance anti-proton burst through the main deflector. You may overload the EPS conduits on decks 8 through 15, but if you keep your graviton radiation levels in check you'll find thatthe warp core will stabilize as the warp plasma is cooled. Good luck!
Submitted by Nicole3 (user info) at 2004-10-15 13:16:13 EDT (#)
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Wow! I thought I was a dork.
Submitted by AwesomeJohnson (user info) at 2004-10-15 13:14:43 EDT (#)
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sorry to not be on topic, but this is the best reply i've heard all day
Submitted by kai070169 (user info) at 2004-10-15 12:54:50 (#)
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I suggest you reroute power from life support and emit a high resonance anti-proton burst through the main deflector. You may overload the EPS conduits on decks 8 through 15, but if you keep your graviton radiation levels in check you'll find thatthe warp core will stabilize as the warp plasma is cooled. Good luck
Submitted by strider (user info) at 2004-10-15 13:04:48 EDT (#)
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Oh, I guess it wasn't clear to me you wanted a continous movie. I guess Premiere would be the best option then. Good luck on finding a good codec. I've never had much luck, even with divx. Let me know if you know of better ones. yatesmachine on AIM.
Submitted by gbusman (user info) at 2004-10-15 13:00:56 EDT (#)
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Submitted by kai070169 (user info) at 2004-10-15 12:54:50 (#)
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I suggest you reroute power from life support and emit a high resonance anti-proton burst through the main deflector. You may overload the EPS conduits on decks 8 through 15, but if you keep your graviton radiation levels in check you'll find thatthe warp core will stabilize as the warp plasma is cooled. Good luck!
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Damn Trekkies.
Submitted by kai070169 (user info) at 2004-10-15 12:54:50 EDT (#)
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I suggest you reroute power from life support and emit a high resonance anti-proton burst through the main deflector. You may overload the EPS conduits on decks 8 through 15, but if you keep your graviton radiation levels in check you'll find thatthe warp core will stabilize as the warp plasma is cooled. Good luck!
Submitted by strider (user info) at 2004-10-15 12:50:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I recently bought a dual layer DVD burner and I needed software to do much the same thing as you're doing. But what I'm doing is ripping what are normally 8.5GB discs and burning them to regular 4.7GB.
First I use DVD Decrypter http://www.dvddecrypter.com/ and this rips the individual files to your HD. Then I use Shrinker http://www.dvdshrink.org/ to compress these files to fit all on one 4.7GB DVD. It allows you the option of not including other languages and captions. By taking these out you can reduce your amount of compression. The cool option Shrinker allows is to compress those files to another directory and not have to burn to DVD and you can choose any size you want. And I think this is what you want to do. The beauty of this is that you don't have to mess with Premier or imperfect codecs.
A last thing to consider is doing a Deep Analysis run with Shrinker. This takes longer but is supposed to improve quality. You can also set a Sharp quality option when you do the Backup (can't remember which Tab). You'll want to this for action movies (esp. Star Wars!)
Submitted by professorfuckface (user info) at 2004-10-15 12:49:32 EDT (#)
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CUT OUT scenes with Jar Jar Binks? If anything, you should be splicing MORE in.
Submitted by gbusman (user info) at 2004-10-15 12:42:27 EDT (#)
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Thanks Midnight. I could daemon tools the disc image true, but then I couldn't edit the files. The goal of course is to splice them all together non-stop (and maybe take out a scene or two with Jar Jar.)
The ripper that came with GK works great. The problem is I don't know what to do with the files, and the audio is seperate. Speaking of which, know what an .avs file is? I assume it's the sound, but I don't have anything that will play it... which is saying something.
I actually have a pinnacle capture card, but I'm pretty sure that just plugging in inputs like that creates the copy-protection fuzzy lines.
I've actually been meaning to switch my linux box to a GUI, it's just RL3 right now. Any suggestions for apps there? Thanks for the help.
-Bus
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2004-10-15 12:41:55 EDT (#)
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Use the Force.
Submitted by professorfuckface (user info) at 2004-10-15 12:30:31 EDT (#)
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Make an image of each disc and emulated them with daemon/alcohol.
Submitted by TheMidnight12AM (user info) at 2004-10-15 12:30:23 EDT (#)
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Enter the sypernerd:
1) Try out various DVD "rippers." Some of these cannot circumvent the copyright protection on DVDs, so they may not work, but they can often come close to the original format.
2) Copy an "image" of the DVD to your hard drive, and play it just like a DVD.
3) Best method: get a video capture card for your computer, preferably with an S-video or composite input. Hook up your DVD player's video out and audio out to your PC, and then play the DVD and hit record on the PC, with the quality settings on the software at DVD quality MPEG-2. Lots of hard drive space, but it works.
4) Use Linux to copy and play the DVD. It often doesn't have the copyright protection software built into the players like Windows does.
Best file formats to use:
MPEG-2 (DVD quality)
AVI
WMV (Mathematically lossless)
Hope this helps.
Exit the supernerd.