How to do a high Quality DivX rip

How to do a high Quality DivX rip First and foremost, go to http://www.doom9.org and go to their downloads section. get the following files: under Audio: Besweet Besweet GUI Under Codecs: DivX 5.2.1 Pro Under Divx/Mpeg-4 encoders: Nandub 1.0RC2 then get this: http://www.dvd-digest.tv/downloads/files/virtualdub/vdub_pack-145.exe alternatively, get any version of virtualdub that includes mp3 support. these are all the required tools, there are ways with fewer items, but they produce very inferior outputs. Besides, after you get used to it, the whole process is really easy. Okay, first and foremost, pull out Nandub. This is the step that takes the longest, as well as where you will make most of your decisions. I am going to assume that you are making a 1 cd rip. If you do what is in this faq, there won't be much reason to do anything else. Twisted Evil First of all, run Nandub . It will pop up a dialogue box, and want to know if you are making a new project or resuming an old. New, of course. Give it a name and tell fairuse where you want it to store its data. Fairuse is about to rip the entire movie to your harddrive(nice if you want to go rent a movie and return it the next day). Then it will ask for your DVD drive with a dvd in it. give it. Then, select which video stream you want. This is usually pretty obvious as the movie stream is the one that is an hour or so long. If there are two of these, check out the other tags. which languages and so on. worst case senario is that you have to trial and error. but that is rare. choose the long stream and hit next. This is where Nandub rips everything to your hard drive. depending on the speed of various components in your computer, and the length of the movie, this could take a while. let it finish. and then move on. Once all that is done, the really important screen pops up. this is where you set resolutions and video length. first, cut off the ending credits with the slider, but DO NOT mess with the beginning, as the sound and video frames need to start at the same point for sync. Then hit auto set for the cropping region, this is usually just fine. Then decide whether or not you want subtitles, which would be the subpicture stream. When you're done, hit next. Set the field mode to IVTC. This will give you better quality for size, as it runs at 24 frames instead of 30, due to the nature of divx, there won't be any noticeable difference in quality, but 6 less frames to deal with each second(and to store data for) really add up. Besides this is the correct mode for all movies anyway. NExt. This is where you set FINAL file size, including audio, for 1 cd rip, set to 690, for 2, set to double that. Then follow the directions they give you and choose a final resolution that has between a 120:1 and 150:1 (if possible, sometimes the movie is compression ratio. NEXT! This screen is where you determine quality. The autoadd button is usefull, and will give you decent quality, with 4 encodings. What this does is encode the movie 4 times, and then mix the frames to creat the final encoding, with the most efficient possible encoding for each frame. which is how we get bad ass quality for a single cd. I usually go for 8 encodings, as on my athlon 1600+ this rarely takes more than 8 hours to do, so I just go to sleep, wake up, and its done. Then add the audio encoding that you want. Hit next. And let the bastard fly. Depending on what you set, and your computer, this could take from a few hours to a few days. CPU's of 1.2Ghz+ are nice right about here. You can do stuff while this is going on, but it makes things take much longer. In the end you will have a bunch of encodings in the folder you specified at the beginning, the 4+ you chose and the final. You will also have an AC3 stream. Take the final AVI and toss it someplace to await the rest of the audio work you have to do, and you can erase the other encodings, freeing up a few gigs in the process of space. NEXT: AUDIO Ok, this is where Besweet comes in. Extract BeSweet and the GUI into the same folder. Now Run the GUI. At the top there are three fields. One for BeSweet which you should point at the besweet.exe that you should have unzipped to the same directory you are running the Gui from, A field for the AC3 stream, which is in the folder where you sent the encoded video from Fairuse, and an output mp3. The output mp3 has to be an existing file, so make a text file, rename it (yourmovie).mp3 and just say yeah, its cool to change the extension and make things weird. besweet will overwrite it so don't worry. point the third field at that file. The default values for stuff should be fine. but to make sure go to Azid 1(on the left) and select stereo, and then go to Lame 2 and select constant bit rate, and 128(assuming that is what you want). then click on besweet again, and finally, click on AC3 to MP3. Let the bastard fly. Now. When its done you should have an mp3 that is the entire soundtrack for the movie. This is where virtualdub comes in. run the virtualdub mp3 version. go to File:open video file and select the final encoding that you had from way back. Then go to audio and select mp3 audio. it will ask you for the file, give it the mp3. Go to audio again and make sure direct stream copy is selected. Then go to video and make sure that direct stream copy is also selected. Finally go to file again and SAVE AVI. give it a file name and let the bastard fly. This final file is your movie. Beautiful and glorious. Congratulations, its a DivX rip. Aren't you proud. burn to cd, and give copies to all your friends. 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how to make a vcd from a dvix

Tools required: Latest Virtual dub, TMPGEnc and Nero ( and the DivX codecs.) Preparing: Download all tools, Be sure to install DivX 3.11 DivX4 and the latest DivX5 codecs. Extracting the audio : Start Virtualdub. Open your video File->Open video file.(if you get any warnings just ignore them because you won't edit the video just extract the audio) Select File->File Information and note the fps as the video source fps because you will need it later. Select under Audio->Full processing mode. Select Audio->Compression and select Select Audio->Conversion. Change the the Sampling rate to 44100Hz if you are going to make VCD or SVCD MPEGs. Save the wav by clicking on File->Save WAV...the wav will be a huge audio uncompressed video file(about 10 MB/minute. Encoding: Start TMPEnc. Press cancel if the Project Wizard comes. Press Browse… and select the DivX file as Video source input. Now you press the Browse button for choosing the Audio source input and use the saved wav file. Press load and load the file which in the Template directory of TMPGenc. If the video source fps is 29,970 load VideoCD (NTSC).mcf If the video source fps is 23,970 load VideoCD (NTSCFilm).mcf If the video source fps is 25,000 load VideoCD (PAL).mcf If the video source fps is anything else else just load NTSC if you live in US or Japan and PAL if you live anywhere else. Note if you live in US or Japan and get problem playing PAL, often causing black and white TV playback problems, then first check if you can change to PAL on your TV or DVD Player if not then instead convert it to NTSC by loading the VideoCD(NTSC) template. Note if you live Europe and the rest of the world and get problem playing NTSC or NTSCFilm, often causing black and white TV playback problems, then first check if you can change to PAL on your TV or DVD Player if not convert it to PAL by loading the VideoCD(Pal) template. Press Settings and choose Advanced. Select Full screen (keep aspect ratio) under Video arrange method to keep the same aspect ratio(widescreen,fullscreen) as the video source(if you have a widescreen movie and you want it to be in fullscreen select No margin(keep aspect ratio). Select Source range and double-click on it with the mouse. In the next dialog you can choose the source range. This process depends on the DivX file. If the DivX file is less than 80min (for a 80min/700mb CDR) then you do not have to split the file to two CDs. Also if the DivX file is already in two parts you have just to convert the first file and then the second. But if there should be the case that the movie is in one file over 80minutes long then it is necessary to select the source range. In this new dialog you put the horizontal scrollbar to the middle of the selection so that you will get the same length on the first CD as on the second. After you selected the middle do you have press Set end frame. A new value should be under End Frame. This value you should notice somewhere for the encoding of the second part. Of course the start frame must be 0. After pressing ok, you only have to select the output file name. I prefer the movie name with the CD number (e.g. Ghost in the Shell CD1) for the burning. Now encode the file by pressing the Start-Button. While encoding you can select File->Preview(it won't effect the encoding) to see how the output will be, it it looks wrong(widescreen or fullscreen) you can stop the encoding and start over and change especially the Settings->Advanced->Video arange method.) If you only want to burn the movie on one CD jump to the burning guide else follow the next points. Repeat the third, forth and fifth point. In the source range dialog you now use as Start frame the noticed value and move with the horizontal scrollbar to the end of the movie. After pressing Set end frame, press two times OK. Now select the output filename for the second file. (e.g. Ghost in the Shell CD2) and encode it. After the encoding is done and you did all right, you should have for every CD a file. Burning: Launch Nero.Close the Wizard. Select File->New. 1. Select VideoCD 2. Select PAL or NTSC depending what format your source MPEG is in. 3. And hit New. 1. Locate your .mpg and drag it(see picture below). Remember that you can add several .mpgs also, each mpg will be a own track on the VCD and you can add data files also, just drag them to any folder. 2. Check the time. It should be the same as in the movie. 3. Rename the CD to anything you like by clicking F2 on NEW. 4. Select File->Write CD. don't know about everyone else.. but the only options i choose on tmpgenc to make mpeg-1 files are either NTSC film 23.976, or NTSC video 29.97 fps.. i also live in the u.s. so i do all of mine accordingly.. why do you save the wave file with virtual dub.. or should i say, why do you even process the divx file with vdub.. yeah if it is your last resort and the divx for some reason doesn't open in tmpgenc.. i've got 180+ Divx movies, some downloaded mostly ripped, never had a problem encoding them with tmpgenc plus. just seems like you are going from your a$$ to your elbow to do this. 1. take divx movie (120 minutes long for example).. open with vdub.. find a keyframe about halfway through the film, preferrably at a scene change. choose "SET SELECTION START" from the EDIT menu.. scroll all the way to the end of the film, choose "SET SELECTION END"... hit DELETE or choose "DELETE SELECTION", all from the EDIT menu 2. Now you have 1 half of your movie. under the VIDEO menu, choose "DIRECT STREAM COPY", also make sure that under AUDIO is going to generate a "DIRECT STREAAM COPY". Then go to FILE and choose "SAVE as AVI..." on a newer computer this will take less than 2 minutes.. 3. When it is complete, the quickest way to proceed is to just click on FILE / "OPEN VIDEO FILE". at the beginning of the clip, choose "SET SELECTION START" again, snap back to the keyframe (half way through the film) which you cut half the film off at and choose "SET SELECTION END". DELETE... FILE / "SAVE AS AVI..." save as the other half of film.. once again, will usually take less than 2 minutes... 4. choose option accordingly, this next part can be important.. (i'm going to give the rest of the instructions as if you were making ntsc movie) since you want to make a standard mpeg-1 file, choose NTSC FILM or NTSC VIDEO.. BROWSE for your file, then hit NEXT, then it OTHER SETTINGS / ADVANCED tab ... now there is an option that says "VIDEO ARRANGE METHOD".. if you are making a fullscreen movie, lleave on FULLSCREEN.. if you are encoding a widescreen movie, choose "FULL SCREEN (KEEP ASPECT RATIO).. OK / NEXT / NEXT (you get the point) basically takes 1 step out of the tutorial above.. the instructions for nero appear to be correct.. but here's another tip.. dvd burners are becoming more and more popular and even i got one now, like many of you do. tired of old vcd's or wanna encode a VCD standard DVD with nearly 9 hours of video (but same quality as normal 80 minute VCD), if this is the case, make sure you encode your DivX files as "NTSC VIDEO 29.97 FPS".. even if source is 23 fps... and once you have 3 or 4 movies, get yourself a proggy called TMPGENC DVD AUTHOR.. make a track for each movie.. and you got yourself a dvd with 3 or 4 average length movies on 1 dvd (with menus if you like) that is WAY MORE COMPATIBLE than a VCD.. do a search for the keyword VCD-DVD and i posted a more descriptive tutorial on how to do this..

How To Make Perfect Copies Of Maxis The Sims Discs, CloneCD Style!

How To Make Perfect Copies Of Maxis The Sims Discs, CloneCD Style! verry simple.. get the latest version from h**p://slysoft.com download it , install, restart. now that it's installed. Click in the "Read to Image" icon.. click next to get to the next screen.. select "Protected PC Game" click next.. and after it makes the image.. exit the program.. Now re-open CloneCD click on the "Write from image" icon.. clicik next.. select "Protected PC Game" and click next.. NOTE:!! i tested this method with an CD-RW.. so far i wont/cant test with a CD-R (shouldn't make a difference) because i'm down to my last 3 CD-R's.. so you can try a CD-R.. i dont care but sofar i tested with the TDK 80min/700mb CD-RW blanks.. now i had it working without a patch.. after i burnt the disc.. i installed the sims from the burnt copy and tried to load.. IT Worked! i've got the sims in the background as i speak!.. not sure if anyone else knew about this but i got this idea in a dream about Digimon and Dragon Drive.. (DONT EVEN ASK WHY!) but "Guilmon" and "Chibi" said Tom.. to make a Perfect copy of The Sims CD's.. Use Clone CD.. afterwards . i woke up.. and i tried it! henh .. uncanny hunh?

how to play divx movies

Download and install the following packages: CODE http://www.afterdawn.com/software/version_...ory/ffdshow.cfm Click on FFDSHOW 2004-XX-XX (date) and then on the download icon at the bottom of the page. CODE http://www.vorbis.com/files/1.0/tobias/OggDS0995.exe CODE http://www.vorbis.com/files/1.0/tobias/SubTitDS1400.exe -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recomended Player: CODE http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...lease_id=227046 Choose between mpc2kxp6482.zip (windows 2000 & XP) or mpc98me6482.zip (windows 98 & Me) On the page that apears click on one of the litle pages on the right. To play subtitles with this player you mus do the following: Go to View->Options->Output (Playback) and select (DirectShow Video) VRM7 or VRM9 renderless (the highest you got). On the same page select the highest DirectX version you got two times. If you want to make this player your default go to View->Options->Formats (Player) and select the file formats you want to associate with it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- After all this you will be able to playback 99% of all movies DivX, Xvid, Ogg, with MP3 or AC3 sound. Please notify me if any of these links do not work. If you are looking for a all in one solution you might enjoy this player called VLC: CODE http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

How to recover MOST of scratched CD data discs

How to recover MOST of scratched CD data discs I learn an old thecnique to how to recover damaged or scratched disks with some lost of data. In this case i have one borrowed game - MAX PAYNE 2 with a chunck of 4 mb lost with a scratch in CD1 Install. Here we cover some special thecniques of how to create a full working CD from the scratched one. First some tools will be needed: 1. Alcohol 120% 2. UltraISO 3. Windows XP/2000 (not tested on 95/98/me) 3. Small piece of cotton 4. Dry cleaner paper 5. Finally, oil for cooking. First step - preparing the CD Get the cotton and drop some water, start cleaning vertically the surface of CD. Do it 3 times and dry the water with a piece of dry cleaner paper. With a new piece of cotton, drop some oil for cooking and start to wet the surface like you are washing the CD with the oil. Dry carefully now. Some particles of oil will stay on the microsurface of the scrath. It's okay. Seems the oil helps the laser of the CD/DVD driver to read the surface again. Sure this will work with small unreadable scratchs - some hard scratchs loose parts of the surface of the CD where we have data and it's lost forever. But if it is loosed try anyway. Whith this tip 80% of the small scratched CD's coud be recovered. Second Step - testing the CD With Alcohol 120% make an ISO - image making wizard - and lets see if the app can read the loosed surface. In my case Alcohol 120% had recovered 60% of the data. This is not enough. Have tryed other appz, they do not recover all the data. But the CD/DVD driver laser CAN recover all data in this case. the data is still there, what we do? third step - making the new CD With the main copy system of windows explorer you can do it. Just create one folder with the same name of the CD label for future burn reference, and copy the CD content to the folder. When the CD copy process find the scratch, in majority of the cases, it's slow down the reading and will recover ALL loosed data.If not, it just tell you there's an unreadable sector. In this case your CD is lost. But it's not my case, finally windows explorer got all the data from the scratch and made a copy in the folder. with the ultraISO, wrote the original CD label, drop the content of the folder and save as Iso. You can Test the new CD just mounting the iso in the Alcohol 120%. In my case i did ISO of the two discs from MAX PAYNE 2 and tested installing from the mounted ISO. Works like a charm. I got the 4 mb lost again. So, I have burned the CD and now i have a working copy from the scratched one. Sounds too bizzarre, but works. Course you can jump the cleaning process and try to copy the content with Windows explorer. But in my case did not work without oil...

Burning BIN/CUE Images with Nero Burning Rom

Burning BIN/CUE Images with Nero Burning Rom BIN/CUE image format is quite common on the Internet. It might seem that finding an appropriate software for burning these images is quite hard. Luckily, it's not. In addition to Golden Hawk CDRWin, the original software for BIN/CUE format, you can also use Nero Burning Rom to burn the images. Please make sure that you have the latest version of Nero, which now is 5.5.10.0 Verify the CUE-sheet and open it with Nero Before doing anything else you have to verify that the path in the CUE-sheet is correct. A CUE-sheet is a plaintext file describing the structure and the location of the BIN-file. You can open up the .CUE -file using, for example, Notepad. The file should look something like this: FILE "IMAGE.BIN" BINARY TRACK 01 MODE1/2352 INDEX 01 00:00:00 Usually the CUE-filename and the BIN-filename have the same body -- e.g. IMAGE. All you need to do is verify that there is no path information on the FILE "IMAGE.BIN" BINARY -line. Ie. it should NOT read e.g. FILE "C:\TEMP\IMAGE.BIN" BINARY If there is any path information on the line, just remove it so that you have just the name of the .BIN-file as in the example above. Also make sure that the name of the .BIN in the CUE-sheet is the same as the actual .BIN file you have on hard-disk. Next load Nero Burning Rom and choose File, Burn Image.... Load the CUE-sheet in Nero Choose the Files of Type: dropdown menu and select All Files *.*. Next just locate the .CUE file, select it and click Open. Make sure you select the .CUE -file, not the .BIN -file. Burn the image All you have to do then is choose the writing speed, select the Disc-At-Once Write Method, and click Write. That's it! After a couple of minutes you'll have a CD with the BIN/CUE Image written on it. NOTES: --> Do not worry if the BIN file seems larger than the capacity of your CD-R or CD-RW. Bin files are raw data and once burned, the file size is smaller. --> If you have a DVD burner, just burn the cue/bin directly onto the DVD. Then use Daemon Tools to mount the cue/bin image when you use the files. This way you maintain a true exact image. And Daemon Tools (also Alcohol CDR burning software, which has the same feature) mounts the image, and you see the files instead of the bin/cue. _________________

Burn a BIN without a CUE using NERO

Burn a BIN without a CUE using NERO You've downloaded a *.BIN file, but there was no *.CUE file associated and you still want to burn the *.BIN file using Nero Your options are: 1) Create yourself a *.CUE 2) Convert the *.BIN to an *.ISO 3) OR use Nero to burn without the *.CUE file!!! Yes, that's possible... just follow these steps and you will be sorted. No need for *.CUE files anymore Ok, here we go... 1) Start Nero 2) File -> Burn Image 3) Browse to the *.BIN file that you want to burn and open it 4) A window saying "Foreign Image Settings" will open 5) Check the settings. They should be as followed: * Type of image: leave it to Data Mode 1 * Select the Raw Data check box Note ->> The block size will change automatically from 2048 to 2352 * Leave Image Header and Image Trailer unchanged and set to 0 * Leave "Scrambled" and "Swapped" check boxes unchecked 6) Click on burn! 7) Enjoy This tut was for Nero 5.x.x.x, I was told that "Burn Image" is under "recorder" in Nero 6. The rest of the steps should be the same.. fell free to email us warload@in.com

To burn a bin file, you will need an appropriate cue file.

To burn a bin file, you will need an appropriate cue file. You do exactly the same as for iso files, but when you click on “burn image,” you don’t browse to the bin itself, but instead to the cue file, and you open that one. When the writer starts to burn, it will automatically search for the bin file and start burning it. In fact, the cue file tells the burning program where it can find the bin file that is attached to it. It is VERY IMPORTANT that you use the right cue file when you burn a bin. i.e both cue and bin files that are attached to each other must be located in the same folder, and every bin file has it’s own cue file. Normally, when you download a bin file, you can download the appropriate cue file as well. If you do not have the cue file (or feel bold) you can make the cue file yourself, which is really easy to do: a. Open notepad b. Copy the folowing text into notepad: FILE“nameofimage“BINARY TRACK 01 MODE1/2352 INDEX 01 00:00:00 Where nameofimage.bin is the name of the bin file you want ot burn. c. The rest is easy: just save the notepad text with the name of the bin, but with the cue extension. d. The file should be saved in the same folder as its appropriate bin file and should be something like myfile.cue Or you can use Alcohol 120% to burn directly from the bin file

make a autorun cd

If you wanna make a autorun file for that CD you are ready to burn just read this... 1) You open notepad 2) now you writ: [autorun] OPEN=INSTALL\Setup_filename.EXE ICON=INSTALL\Setup_filename.EXE Now save it but not as a .txt file but as a .inf file. But remember! The "Setup_filename.EXE" MUST be replaced with the name of the setup file. And you also need to rember that it is not all of the setup files there are called '.exe but some are called '.msi 3) Now burn your CD with the autorun .inf file included. 4) Now set the CD in you CD drive and wait for the autorun to begin or if nothing happens just double-click on the CD drive in "This Computer"

Make A Roughly 16 Hour Video Dvd

Make A Roughly 16 Hour Video Dvd 3 things are needed 1. Proper Codecs 2. TMPGEnc 3 Express (Best for this job IMO) 3. TMPGEnc DVD Author (Dual Layer Edition) simply start a new project in TMPGEnc 3 Express, Set the output for said file as an NTSC MPEG1 (VIDEO CD) Make sure you set at NTSC (TMPGENC WILL ONLY ACCEPT IF FRAMERATE IS 29.97 FPS) once you have made roughly 8 hours / 16 hours depending... of video files open TMPGEnc DVD Author.. Simply press "SOURCE SETUP" you will notice you can set up multiple 'tracks' if you add more than one file to 1 track, the program automatically sets up 'chapters' just add your video files (and follow the steps in the program).. it will take roughly an hour or 2 to do an 8 hour disc, maybe 3 or 4 for a 16 hour disc (i don't have a dual layer burner but i am sure that it works).. THESE WORK IN PLAYSTATION 2's!!! I KNOW BECAUSE ITS HOW I MAKE MINE AT TIMES... only way i know to get this much footage (And have it still work in something as simple as a ps2)