Mpeg2Avi Guide

This is the fastest MPEG to AVI encoder on the market (besides DVD2AVI.. which doesn't support resizing and is therefore not quite suited for the task, but it's an excellent frameserver). On the downside it can create quite an amount of asynch, and since PX3 has stopped development it's not sure if VirtualDub filters will ever be integrated (deinterlacing and subtitling).

Due to quality issues with ac3dec we're going this more complicated way. It's no longer a set-up and forget procedure but you get increased quality instead. And you can still run audio extraction and encoding in parallel. The only manual interaction is then multiplexing which doesn't take a lot of time.

You will need the following software in this guide:

DivX3.11 alpha
Mpeg2AVI
Mpeg2AVI GUI
SmartRipper
Vob2audio

Step 1: Rip the DVD

Do NOT use any other program to rip the DVD unless it does IFO parsing (vStrip is the ONLY alternative).

Step 2: Audio Extraction

High quality, direct AC3 to MP3 conversion using azid and lame.

Step 3: Encoding

Step 4: Join AVI and MP3

Step 5 : Splitting (optional)

If your output file is larger than a single CD you might want to split it up ;)

Step 6: Troubleshooting

The most common problem is asynch. Here's how to fix it.

This document was last updated on 05/26/02