[EOS_MAN]

Hi everyone,

I want to rip my DVDs, as suggested, to a resolution of 1024x576 (not anamorphic) at a bitrate or 1.5Mb/s for playback on portable media players and my dad and my macs and my sisters PC.
The obvious choice would be to choose MacTheRipper and Turbo.264 HD them (50mins per DVD in total), but the resulting files are in H.264 and are not readable by the devices. Unfortunately Apple don't make 7" portable media players, thus why we haven't bought them yet.

We have two Archos AV700 100GBs and a 705 WiFi 160GB (mine). Mine will play H.264 with AAC audio with a £20 plug-in, but the other two won't I believe.

Thus we like are files encoded using MPEG-4, in an AVI container.

Is there a FREE DVD ripper out there that will allow us to do the above on a Mac (me and dad have macs which is what the DVDs are put through, my sister has a PC)?

Thanks,

Fred

[sammy4499771]

Handbrake

[EOS_MAN]

Originally Posted by EOS_MAN

Hi everyone,

I want to rip my DVDs, as suggested, to a resolution of 1024x576 (not anamorphic)
Fred

I am currently using Handbrake, but I can only get it to export at 720x405 maximum, more commonly 720x384 if the DVD has a top and bottom border.

I can get it to export anamorphic, but then the footage looks 4:3 on the Archoses.

Is there a way to export 1024x576 NON-anamorphic?

[sammy4499771]

it might be a setting on the archos? What does the file look like in quicktime?

[nigelbb]

Originally Posted by EOS_MAN

I am currently using Handbrake, but I can only get it to export at 720x405 maximum, more commonly 720x384 if the DVD has a top and bottom border.

I can get it to export anamorphic, but then the footage looks 4:3 on the Archoses.

Is there a way to export 1024x576 NON-anamorphic?

The resolution of a DVD is 720x576 (PAL) or 720x480 (NTSC) & may or may not be anamorphic but is always that resolution. What you want is for your ripper to make it a higher resolution but normally it is the player that does this upscaling. You can certainly use something like MPEG Streamclip to convert it to a larger resolution & larger file size but it won't improve the picture quality at all in fact it will more likely degrade it.

[meansizzler]

1024*576 is the full widescreen resolution for PAL(1.78:1) where as 768*576 is the Full 4x3 Resolution for PAL, 720*576 is the anamorphic PAL resolution used for PAL DVD's and TV Broadcasts.

Now for the OP, the easiest and most reliable program to do what you want is to use MPEGstreamclip, once you have your dvd on your mac, i.e video_ts folder open with mepg stream clip, select the actual movie not the trailers/menu, then export it to MPEG4, select, Interlace scaling, deinterlace, and 1024*576 for res, you might want to crop the overcan portion of the video out, and adjust res accordingly..

For Bitrate at that res I use 3-4mb/s 1.5 will give you pixelation, that resulting file will play back on PS3 and Xbox 360 Consoles..

Now as for the Archos, the H264 plugin will only support 720*576 max, so what you want to do is encode to 720*406 at 3MB/s, this will give you a perfectly playable file for your archos with correct aspect ratio

720*406 is for 1.78:1 Content only, for 2.35:1 use 720*300

Also you need to purchase quicktime pro and mpeg 2 component, which is more than worth it for what you cna do with mpeg streamclip