This Process will take a long time, but will give Awesome Quality. Quality over Time Always
Edit June 5, 2006: MeGUI Bitrate Calculator updated, and bug free now
MeGUI is the most frequently updated program I know... new version are always coming, and thinkg are improving. x264 and xvid are going through a update proces... Be smart and let the autoupdate update everything.... 2 minutes will not hurt you.
The idea is that you know something about ripping... most softwear are provided in the .rar file I update, but you have to do something like updating your plugin folder in AVISynth folder.... I will skip through something which I think are obious, if you have question just ask me here, or I am just a PM away...
Now let's do the real think....
Softwear you will need...
DVD Dycrypter
Avisynth (google it)
MeGUI (Downlod here) RapidShare Link MegaUpload Link
You will need these Plugin folder aswelll RapidShare Link MegaUpload Link
Once Install Steps....
unzip the .rar file I provided and put it on the location you desired... I used my MY VIDEO folder....
Click on Tools Setting...
Most of them are self explained.... do not ask me to explain each and every one of them
This is the fun part... rellocate each and every program... all the programs are provided in the rar file I have uploaded....
In your C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5 there should be a folder called plugins replace that folder with the one I have provided above... and that's it. You should be ready to use MeGUI now.
Step 1:
Decrypter the movie... get it on your harddrive to be used....
Install DVD Dycrypter, and open it. Click on Mode -> IFO
you will see the screen that looks something like the one below
By Default DVD Dycrypter chooses the longest titel, which usually is the movie... after selecting title you want to decrypter just Click on dvd -> HD symbol on lower left
Step 2 :
Creating a AVS Script to do frameserving
In the MeGUI\tools\DGIndex folder... there is a utility called DGIndex.exe
Most of you know how to use DGIndex, so I am just gone briefly touch this topic
Just open DGIndex... File -> open... open all the .vob files you just created... and open
Got File -> Save project, and save the .d2v file. This file you will use to create AVISynth Script...
Click on Tools -> AviSynth Script creator
In Video Input browse for .d2v file you just created and choose this file
Click on AutoCrop and Tick the Suggest Resize and you are done with this tab
Switch to Filters tab and click on Analyse to Analyse if the source is progressive, hybrid or interlaced... once MeGUI is done scanning it will choose the filter that should be used and will tell you the detail summary of your source
Also use resize filter you like and I suggest you tick color correction
Detailed... Source Summary. This has to be deinterlaced to get good quality... will take longer time encoding
Once Done hit the save button... and save the avs script. you are done creating avs script.
Step 3:
Video Encoding....
As you can see MeGUI already choose the .AVS file and default output for the file. From here you choose the Codecs and container you desire.
For our pupouses we are not gone bother with this, as this is suppose to be "easy"
I have provided a great set of profiles by sharktooth... Just choose the profile you desire, Quality, speed, long time, loseless, 1 pass, portable, HD everything is included....
I use HQ-slow to do my encoding... and as it says it is slow, but it is by all means HQ
But if you are really interested and you hit config button... you will be lost
Lost of options and too much sh*t to even worry about... so just be thankful sharktooth used his knoledge
This is important
MeGUI does not have perfect bitrate calculator... or if you have one use it.
if you still want to use MeGUI bitrate calculator, go to Tools -> Bitrate Calculator
Select the audio KBs (128 is enough for 1 CD), choose 1 or 2 CD rips and click on Apply
If you manually counted your bitrate, just check the circler next to average bitrate and enter your own bitrate, hit apply...
Some suggetions... some inputs from me
Here is what I do, I choose my audio bitrate and then on botton see the size of projected audio... better yet I encode my audio first and keep the size in mind
Now I subtract the size of audio from size of video, in the custom size... now you have perfect bitrate
Always aim for 695 MB, as you should leave some space for muxing and subtitle purpouses
here is a screenshot which might help
and you are done...
Click on Enque and it will put the file a queue to be encoded
Switch to the Queue tab and hit Start to begin Encoding....
This might look too much, but once you are done with your first Rip... you will feel like you have mastered this art of rippping...
I will do the Audio Encoding... and Muxing part tomorrow... Really do not have energy to do more of this
If anybody thinks I am doing something wrong, please correct me.
Let's do the audio part...
MeGUI improved and uses new and more popular way of audio encoding, AviSynth audio Encoding, which gives more power in audio encoding as well, if you are interested downlod BeHappy and see all you can do with it... for our purpouses we will only do simplest and most effective encoding possible.
When you created a .d2v file using DGIndex, it always extracted all the audio file in the movie, these files can be found in the same folder as your .d2v file
Choose the ac3 file you would like to use and then click on config button...
You would see the codec setting for ND ACC or NeroDigital AAC Encoder....
Let's talk briefly what and why for this
What is AAC, well that you have to google
NeroDigital is becoming a very popular Audio Codec.... and it is my favourtie
AAC will help you keep original channel, so you can get dolby digital experiance even in 1CD Rip... so what are the option availble and what do the do, take a look at this
Output channel should be self explained
Choose Increase volume and improve accurate.... you know what I mean
Let's talk more about ABR, CBR, and VBR for audio encoding....
CBR uses constant bitrate, so same bitrate for each frame
VBR as you all know gives variable bitrate, but unlike vidoe encoding, VBR in audio encoding gives uncertainl file size... I am not the biggest fan of VBR
So, my favourite is, the one that uses both, ABR is not availble in mp3 encoding, atleast not to my knowledge.... ABR is VBR with accurate file size, ABR or average bitrate mathod, simply uses 2 passes to analise the source and reencodes giving more bitrate where needed and less bitrate when it is not necessary....
Click ok to see the main MeGUI screen
Now you are ready to heat the enqueue button to add the job to the encoder
Switch to Queue tab and hit start
That's it for audio part
There are few more codecs to choose frome
if you are doing xvid avi, choose mp3
Faac is also used to do loseless mp4 encoding (if you have sensitive ears, use this to get amazing audio quality, but a bit bigger filesize)
Ogg is very popular so you might know about it, mp2 is used for DVD and VCD creation
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