IMPORTANT:
Please, remember that converting a DVD into a Divx is
legal only if you own the original copy of the DVD (and in a few countries
maybe not legal at all). If you are unsure about
the laws of your country, you had better to seek a legal advice before
reading these guide.
This is a DVD-Divx encoding guide very
easy (subtitles included). You will have quite good results, while you
will have excellent results with the full
guide.
You need only 2 applications:
DVD Decrypter
and AutoGK (and the
Codec if you want your file in
divx and not only Xvid).
The process is quite straightforward:
1) Copy your DVD on Hard Drive with
DVDDecrypter, selecting Mode->IFO.
When you have completed the copy, try to view
a .vob file with WinDVD or PowerDVD, just to check that everything is OK (There
should not be pink or green blocks. The movie will be a little squashed, but this is normal.).
2) Run AutoGK
This application is very easy:
In Input Directory choose the
directory in your HD where you have copied your DVD, and in Output Directory
the directory where you want to save your divx.
In Audio Track and Subtitle Track
select the audio track you desire, and -if you want them- the subtitles. You can
choose between forced (physically impressed on the video), or not forced, and in
this case they will be saved in a separate file (you will be able to
activate/deactivate them in your favourite divx player, like Core Media Player,
ZoomPlayer, or BSPlayer).
In Predefined Size choose 1 or 2 CDs
(if the video is less than 110 minutes you can choose 1 CD, otherwise 2 CDs or
more).
Click on Advanced Setting and choose
the codec (Xvid or Divx), the audio format and the optional subtitles. You can
even avoid to change anything, and let default parameters.
Now click on Add Job and Start.
Done. Now you will have only to wait for a
few hours and the divx will be ready (remember: for a 100 minutes encoding you
will need about 4 hours with a 2 GHZ cpu, 2 hours with a 4 GHZ cpu, and so on).
Advantages of this easy guide:
Disadvantages (compared to the
full guide)
