GOOD dvd rippers...

[lauramcewan.livejournal.com]

Hey all,

I use Sony Vegas Pro 8.0 and for years now have been using DVD Decrypter followed by AutoGordianKnot to convert the .vob files to .avi files.

However, the .vob files seem to be nicer looking.

I've had someone tell me to set my ripper to 'deinterlacing' and I totally get why...but I don't have one that does that.

I've tried Handbrake and it simply does not work on my machine. I've tried a few times, even. *head meet brick wall* When I did have success, it insisted on running different episodes from my dvds (tv show) into each other, so I'd get part of episode one, the rest of 1.1 and part of 1.2 on the next file, then parts of 1.2 and 1.3 on the next file, etc. Which makes it hard to rename the files and find what I'm looking for.

So I'm willing to consider buying a good DVD ripper program rather than trying to rely on freeware. Does anyone have any good suggestions on ripper software that allows for deinterlacing while I pull the .vob files?

Comments

[littleheaven70.livejournal.com]

Handbrake is a Mac program, and if you're using Sony Vegas you must be on a PC, right? So it's unlikely to work for you (which is a shame because it's a fantastic program).

De-interlacing removes those little vertical lines you can get in your vid, but you can de-interlace at any stage (like during the render) and sometimes it's not even necessary. I normally don't have to do it, but if I do, MpegStreamclip will de-interlace while it compresses your vid file down to something web friendly (I normally output my vid as a large master and then compress different versions of that for upload or streaming).

I know a lot of people use VirtualDubMod with either HuffyUV or Lagarith lossless codecs to get their clips. Not sure if VDM has a deinterlacing function, but as I said, you can do that later if need be. Hope that is of some help.

[lauramcewan.livejournal.com]

Handbrake comes in PC version, but it just doesn't work right for me.

I do use VDubMod for clipping but I don't see in its options anywhere deinterlacing, nor in the Vegas. I shall have to poke some more! Thank you!

[littleheaven70.livejournal.com]

Ooh, there's a PC version of Handbrake? *runs off to find*

Vegas doesn't de-interlace, AFAIK, but I think you can change the field orders in the project properties, which sometimes helps. The last vid I did rendered with interlacing whatever I did, but I filtered that out when I compressed my master file to DivX using MpegStreamclip.

I hope you find a solution!

[amnisias.livejournal.com]

I'm not quite sure what the problem is. If you just want to de-interlace you can do that in SVPro, either in the file>properties section, or at the rendering stage.

For ripping and editing from DVD I am using DVD -Decrypter and then Avidemux (to convert to Huffyuv). Avidemux also can deinterlace (video>filters>deinterlacing>yadif-default settings).

Avidemux is available here: http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

For more in-depth tutorials and support I highly recommend the Foolish Passion FanVid Forum: http://fpvideos.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=software

Hope this helps

[lauramcewan.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it will, thank you!