Great ripping method for Xvid/Divx

meGUI is my program of choice especially when it comes to ripping DVDs into h.264 files. It allows me to mix together various audio streams and subtitles into an mkv package, something you can't do with the ordinary AVI containers...

If you just want XVid/DivX, it may be too fancy (and complicated for your needs), so you can go with RYU's recommendation. But just giving you a heads up to my choice.

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Alright, let us keep it simple!

The link has a lot of tutorials. Just click on the underlined meGUI link in my post above.

h.264 is another video codec (a compressor/decompressor) like XVid/DivX. It can compress better than XVid/DivX, so you get more quality for the same file size. The bad side of this is that you need a fast computer to be able to play the h.264 videos, or else it may choke or stutter.

Basically meGUI can mix things together into a file container called "Matroska Video" or MKV format. You can rip subtitles and extra audio tracks from the DVD, and put them together using meGUI. When you look at the movie, you can then choose whether to show the subtitles or not, and change languages whenever you want to. AVI can't do any of these.

Here is how MKV will work:

Video stream (can be compressed in XviD/DivX, h.264, or whatever you want) + Audio stream (one or more languages, can be compressed in MP3 or in whatever you want - I usually keep the DVD format of AC3) + any soft subtitles

Put them together in meGUI ==> a nice MKV file comes out.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Exact error message, plus a description of what exactly you were trying to do (rip from DVD, encode to AVI, what profile?), would be helpful.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

NeroAac.exe is the plugin, not the input. Your audio input should be completely different (the demuxed audio part of the dvd, usually in AAC format).

When I do DVD rips, I almost always never re-encode the audio. I leave audio input blank, go to Tools -> Autoencode, then add in the demuxed AAC from there.

How about if you set encoder settings to LAME MP3: MP3-128ABR?

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Yes.

The first step is as you described. In the second step, you go to AviSynth Script creater (CTRL+R) and play around with filters and de-interlacing.

After you save the AVS script (make sure "On Save close and load to be encoded" is checked), the files will be automatically loaded in the main meGUI window.

Since I rip in H.264 to MKV, I remove ALL audio inputs, change encoder settings to an appropriate x264 profile, and go to AutoEncode.

From here you can specify file format, desired file size, and add extras as desired. When I rip from DVD, I select MKV and add in the various audio streams and subtitles. Then it's good to go.

I was speaking idiomatically.

What are you using to play the movie?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Can you upload the movie for a look see?

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