Lutia/other smart computer people

[Yorke]

My friend is trying to rip DVD's to send to others

Can you suggest a few things:
A) File format suggestion (burn program turns into VOB format, how do you change to MP4 from that?)
B) Codec for viewing
C) Compression formats to send most easily to others

[Lutia]

MeGUI with Avisynth. Forget all the other junk out there, especially the shareware-bullshit that needs a purchase to work. Use the MP4 Container with H.264 and Nero AAC, MKV works too if you want.

HDReady encoding (1280x720) with Dualpass takes around 7,5 hours for a 90 minute Video on a decent quadcore machine.

Some guides:
http://jiang-hu.org/content/installing-megui-its-associated-tools-0
http://jiang-hu.org/content/how-index-video-file-using-megui
http://jiang-hu.org/content/how-create-quick-avs-template-script
http://jiang-hu.org/content/simple-encoding-tutorial-megui

(Not all of it is required as it includes tutorials about subtitle hardcode)

[Ploid]

Thank you!!!!!!!!! Wanted this for a while. I got huge hard drives and nothing to put on them. Now that I have a good pc I can watch video and encode like butter. Finding less uses for my dvd/video game rack.

[Yorke]

thanks lutia, really appreciated