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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MaD-DoC" data-source="post: 2850720" data-attributes="member: 56284">Step by Step Ripping Guide   Let's begin with the retail DVD. The first thing we want to do is place this in our DVD drive and open the movie with a DVD viewing application. In this case we will use VLC Media Player but you may use any application which allows you to make a note of the run time in the movie where the end credits start. We want to write this time down for use later when we convert the raw DVD data into an AVI file with AutoGK.   <img src="http://maxupload.com/img/4838EBB5.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   You will see i am ripping the movie Behind Enemy Lines and note the numbers in the red box as this is the information we want to make note of. The movie has a total run time of 1:41:27 and the end credits start at 1:36:20. Make a note of the end credit start time of whichever movie you are ripping. Some movies only have 1 or 2 minutes of credits whereas others can have up to 8-9 minutes of credits included. The reason we are interested in this time will become apparent later in the tutorial as we are going to compress this section of the movie much more than the actual main feature film itself. We do this so as to give as much quality to the finished AVI file that we can rather than wasting good MB's on boring end credits. Once you have noted the end credit time you can close the movie viewing application, leaving the DVD in our drive. We could cut the credits off entirely but some people like to see the credits and you will also find that the run time of your file will not match the movie info on sites such as IMDb, which may lead to queries from people as to why your movie upload is much shorter than the original retail version. Better to leave them intact.   Next step is to open DVDFab which we will use to copy ( rip ) the raw data from the retail DVD disc onto our computer's hard drive.  I have chosen to use DVDFab for this as it will break through any copy protection which may be present on the retail DVD whereas applications such as DVD Decrypter and others sometimes cannot accomplish this or worse, they inform you that they have but the resulting movie is corrupted and will not convert or will convert to AVI but when you play the file you will find the audio is out of sync or the movie simply locks up when you attempt to play it. Let DVDFab scan the DVD disc and once the blue Open DVD Source box disappears we are ready to rip the DVD to our hard drive.    <img src="http://maxupload.com/img/618CED5E.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   Once DVDFab has finished scanning the DVD we are presented with a screen as follows. As we are only interested in the main movie feature and not the extras included on the disc we will select Main Movie - highlighted in red in the pic. You will see the main movie data file selected - highlighted in yellow in the pic. We then move to the audio selection where you will normally see several choices. We want the first English AC-3/5.1 - highlighted in pink in the pic. You will see there are others such as the directors commentary etc, which for obvious reasons we will not use. The Subpicture - highlighted in blue in the pic are the subtitles. These can be ripped along with the video and audio but are only useful if you wish to include them in a hard subbed AVI file. You will see the term hard subbed used on forums at times and this simply means that the subtitles are always visible during the movie even when you don't want them. We will cover how to rip subtitles as a separate file which can be included as an option with your movie upload in a later tutorial. Select the place on your hard drive that you wish to save the raw DVD data from the DVD to - highlighted in orange in the pic, in this case i am saving it straight to the C drive in a folder called BEHIND ENEMY LINES.   <img src="http://maxupload.com/img/A9C9218F.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   An important note to make here involves the size of the raw data we are going to rip from the disc. If this is greater than 4300 MB then DVDFab will try to compress it to fit on a single DVD. See the pics below as an example where the initial VOB files are 4495 MB and will be ripped and converted to 95% of their raw size if we allow DVDFab to continue ( pic 1 ). We want 100% untouched data files to work with so we select DVD9 from the drop menu ( pic 2 ). Now you see that we are ripping all the data we selected without any compression ( pic 3 ). Most movies require you to select DVD9 as most contain over 4.3 Gig of raw data that is required to be ripped to your hard drive.   Pic 1  <img src="http://maxupload.com/img/6B3E227F.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  Pic 2  <img src="http://maxupload.com/img/980DE386.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  Pic 3  <img src="http://maxupload.com/img/EEF485D7.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   Once we have selected the main movie and audio track we want, along with any subtitles you may want permanently burned onto the picture file we can click on Next in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.  Then simply click on Start on the next screen and wait for DVDFab to rip the raw DVD data files we selected - these are commonly called .VOB files which are MPEG-2 program streams with additional packets containing navigation and search information. You will see in the area i have highlighted in red that the time to complete the rip is displayed so you can minimise the application if you like and go on with other important stuff like cutting your toenails etc, lol.   <img src="http://maxupload.com/img/F60AA44B.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   Once DVDFab has completed ripping the data you may remove the DVD from the drive and close DVDFab as we are finished with this application. Next we will be moving on to the fun part where we will re-encode the .VOB files we just ripped into a much smaller AVI movie file whilst retaining as much quality as possible. Time to open AutoGK !    Okay, we now have the .VOB files or raw DVD data saved to our hard drive and we can open AutoGK to get to work on converting our movie into an AVI format file. Once opened click on the Input file: folder - highlighted in red in the pic below.   <img src="http://maxupload.com/img/B41AB2CF.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   Now select the folder where you saved the data DVDFab ripped from the DVD disc previously. Open the movie folders until you come to the folder which contains the AUDIO_TS and the VIDEO_TS folders.  Select and open the VIDEO_TS folder - highlighted in red in the pic below.   <img src="http://maxupload.com/img/60578094.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   Now you see the .VOB files we ripped from the DVD disc with DVDFab.  Select the file named VTS_01_0 - highlighted in red in the pic and then click on open.   <img src="http://maxupload.com/img/8361BDB9.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   You have now loaded all the .VOB files into AutoGK which automatically includes the other files listed in order after VTS_01_0, up to and including VTS_01_5. You will see the movie information displayed - highlighted in red in the pic below, which tells us the DVD resolution is 720 x 576, the aspect ratio is 16:9 and the length is 1 hour 43 mins and 27.03 seconds long.   <img src="http://maxupload.com/img/C478AD18.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   Now select where you will be saving the completed AVI movie file to once it has been converted by AutoGK. In this case i have selected to save it to C:\MyWorks\Behind Enemy Lines AVI - note that the file is going to be saved as an AVI file by AutoGK - highlighted in red in the pic. Now select an audio track to include with our movie, in this case i only ripped one so that is the one we will be using. If i had selected all the audio files in DVDFab they would be showing here and we would be able to pick the directors commentary if we so chose - highlighted in green in the pic. You will also see the subtitle files in the right of the green highlighted box. If you select one of these it will be hard subbed onto the video picture and permanently on the movie so don't select any unless you have a reason for doing this, such as a foreign audio movie which has optional English subtitles you want to include with your completed AVI movie.  Now we select the Predefined size: of our completed AVI output file - highlighted in yellow in the pic.  A good rule of thumb here is to select 1CD (700Mb) which will fit on a single CD if the movie length is under approx. 2 hours long.  If over that then select 2CDs (1400Mb). Personally i usually opt for 2 CD's if the movie is over 1 hour and 50 mins but the choice is yours. What we are talking about here is deciding how good the quality of our movie will be. The more we compress the .VOB files, the greater the loss in picture quality. I should explain why we don't just convert everything to 2 CD's and thus have extremely high quality on every movie we rip and convert. Most people who rip movies such as myself, do it so as it can be uploaded to a host and made available for others to download. The larger the file download, the more likely it will be shunned. Nobody wants to download a movie using 1.4 Gig of their bandwidth when they can get the same movie in a download file half that size, so long as the smaller ripped version is still of a quality that is enjoyable to watch. If you are not concerned with how popular your posted movie uploads are then rip everything to 2 CD's as the quality will be very high on all your movies. If you want to accumulate download points from say RapidShare, then i would urge you to try to keep your movies to as small a size as possible whilst still retaining good viewing quality.   <img src="http://maxupload.com/img/4F30F9C9.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   We now click on the Advanced Settings button - highlighted in red in the pic. This opens the Advanced Options menu screen - highlighted in yellow in the pic, where we can choose the qualities our completed movie file will have.  First we will select the [/b]Output resolution settings[/b] our movie will have.  In this case we choose Auto width and allow AutoGK to decide the most appropriate resolution taking into account all other settings we choose. I would urge those of you unfamiliar with AutoGK to use this setting until you are better aquainted with it's numerous options. If you were to choose fixed width for example and made the resolution 720, your movie would be so pixelated it would be unwatchable. We will go into further detail on these options in a later tutorial but for now we will stick to letting AutoGK guide us.  The codec is simply the compression method used to convert the .VOB files into the AVI file format. We use XviD as it will result in a higher quality movie than that produced by DivX and is preferred by most people downloading movies.  I always leave the Display only forced subtitles box checked as this option will burn those subtitles that are in even English audio movies with scenes involving foreign language. A good example is the movie Dracula where at the start there is quite a deal of foreign language where you are meant to be seeing subtitles. Without this box checked they are left out and it is common to see people complaining of this on forums when the person who has ripped a movie doesn't actually know what they are doing lol. If no subtitles are normally present on the English audio version of a movie, this box being checked will not make any difference so best bet is to leave it checked.  Lastly we choose the quality of our Output audio type. Your completed AVI movie file will be made up of 2 main input files. The video and the audio. Now remember we have a limited output size so the more space we allocate to the audio, the less is left for the video picture. This is why we do not let AutoGK decide the audio by selecting the Auto option. We will use MP3 sound and select either VBR or CBR audio output. VBR will result in a slightly higher audio file size so we will use CBR. Now we must nominate the kbps audio rate. The higher the number the better the sound quality but the larger the audio file size so our aim here is to go as low as possible without affecting the audio quality in a noticeable way. The magic number to remember here is 128 kbps. I use 112 sometimes but do not go any lower as your sound track will distort on playback especially in loud noise scenes present on many action movies. Use the same setting i have used in the pic below and you can experiment yourself with different settings as you become more comfortable with AutoGK. Once we have finished selecting our Advanced options click on the OK button and we are almost done.   <img src="http://maxupload.com/img/0DE4C553.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   We are now back on the main display screen of AutoGK. Hold down the Ctrl key and hit the F9 key whilst doing so. This opens the AutoGK Hidden Options screen - looks a bit daunting and it is so don't touch anything, I SAID DON'T TOUCH !!! lol.  Okay, we are going to use only one option on this screen and that is the Encode Credits with different settings option - highlighted in red in the pic below. This is why we made a note of where the end credits started back at the very start because we are going to compress the credits at a much higher rate than the rest of the movie. We do this as why waste video quality on the credits when the file size savings can be directed into the main movie. Some movies have 5-7% of the run time used in end credits. By compressing these greatly we will see a marked increase in the main movie output quality.  First check the Encode Credits with different settings box.  Now in the box marked Quality use the up/down buttons to reduce the number to 10%.  In the Frame Calculator area place the time that the end credits start in the appropriate boxes. Remember our time was 1:36:20 so we place a 1 in the hour box, 36 in the minute box and 20 in the seconds box. The next step is very important so be careful here or your movie will be a goof up. If you are ripping from a DVD that is PAL source as they are in my country then choose 25 fps.  If your country is NTSC such as the United States then choose 29.97 fps. Just be sure that you pick the number which matches the frame rate of the retail DVD that we ripped the data from. PAL - 25, NTSC - 29.97. Now click on the calculate button and you will see the actual frame number where the end credits start - this is where AutoGK will change it's compression from the one chosen for the movie to only allowing 10% of the quality of the original credits. They will still be watchable but you will definately see a drastic drop in picture quality when the compression cuts in. If you wish to experiment with higher numbers then go ahead but i can tell you that 25% will give you very watchable credits if you really want to keep them looking good.  Once you have completed these steps click on the OK button and we are about to fire up the encoder. I will go into more detail on the other options in the hidden menu section in a later tutorial but for now we have used the most important one to improve our movie quality as much as possible.   <img src="http://maxupload.com/img/AE442C88.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   Now we are back on the main control screen of AutoGK click on the Add Job button followed by the Start button, both in the red highlighted box in the pic below.  You will see that the empty Log window is now filled with information and will continue to scroll with updates as AutoGK encodes our movie. This will take anywhere from 1.5 - 3 hours to complete depending on how long the movie is and what settings we have chosen. Generally most will take about 2 hours.   <img src="http://maxupload.com/img/9A2544C8.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   Once AutoGK has completed converting our raw DVD data into an AVI format movie file you will see in the folder you chose to save to, three items - see the pic below. Here is our completed 700MB AVI format movie file along with a notepad log file record of the steps AutoGK took to convert the movie. I generally keep the log but that is up to you. Delete the temporary work folder and make sure you go back to where you saved the raw DVD data that you ripped with DVDFab and delete this too as both files are quite large and if you rip a lot of movies you will fill your hard drive with .VOB files unless you remember to delete them once they are converted.   <img src="http://maxupload.com/img/342B60CB.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   The last thing we will do is use AVI2Clipboard to look at the properties of our AVI movie file.  Right click on the finished AVI file and select View AVI Information. If you use the right click windows properties option you will see next to no useful information which is why we are using AVI2Clipboard - see the pic below. I have highlighted in red the main information we want to check to see what AutoGK converted our .VOB files into. You can see that the file size is 700MB as we specified. The video length matches the original movie file length. The resolution is 608x256 which is a good overall size for TV viewing. The last box has the most important information of all - the Quality Factor. You may have noticed this figure listed with some movie uploads you have seen posted. This is basically how much fine detail the movie has. The lower the number the worse the movie will be when viewed on a large screen such as a TV. In general terms anything less than 0.185 B/px is not the best when viewed on larger screens. I try to keep it at 200+ in general. Some of my 2 CD rips are well over 0.300 B/px and these are extremely sharp even on a large screen TV. It is worth noting here that there is a direct correlation between the resolution and the quality factor. If you increase one, the other will suffer. So if we were to select a fixed resolution for the movie we just ripped of perhaps 688 we would see the quality factor drop to 100 B/px or similar which would be like watching a TeleSync version of our movie !   <img src="http://maxupload.com/img/633F4055.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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