Insert your DVD in your DVD ROM, and start up SmartRipper.exe, if SmartRipper has trouble
reading the vob files, play the DVD for about half a minute, close the player and open SmartRipper again.

Go to Setting and make sure the setting are the same as below.

Press the 'Start' Button

It will take about 12-15 minutes to copy all the VOB files to your hard drive.

close down SmartRipper

Go to File>Open>go to the folder where you saved the DVD, select the first VOB file,
click 'Open' and DVD2AVI will automatically select the rest of the VOB files click 'OK'

Select Video>Color Space>YUV 4:2:2

Select Video>Field Operation>None

To find the correct Audio Stream, go to the ripped
folder and open the 'INFO.txt' file Here you can find
English is the 1st Audio stream, (only 1 video stream) so in DVD2AVI you go to Audio>Track Number>Track 1
or French is the 4th audio stream, so in DVD2AVI you
go to Audio>Track Number>Track 4 etc

***************
* Stream Info *
***************

Stream[001] X=[[0xE0] Video PAL 720x576] [] [] [] []
Stream[002] X=[[0x80] Audio English AC3(2Ch) 48kHz ] [] [] [] []
Stream[003] X=[[0x81] Audio Deutsch AC3(6Ch) 48kHz ] [] [] [] []
Stream[004] X=[[0x82] Audio Español AC3(2Ch) 48kHz ] [] [] [] []
Stream[005] X=[[0x83] Audio Français AC3(2Ch) 48kHz ] [] [] [] []
Stream[006] X=[[0x84] Audio Italiano AC3(2Ch) 48kHz ] [] [] [] []

Select Desired Audio Track

Select Audio>Dolby Digital>Demux

If you have problems with finding the audio select 'Demux All Tracks' and play all in a Media Player (that can play AC3 dolby digital) until you find the desired language.

Press F5 and take a note of the Aspect Ratio, Frame Rate, and Frame Type>press Esc(on the keyboard).

If you have 'Video Type-PAL' and the Frame Type is Interlaced go to the slider bar and move it, if you notice lines you will need to use a deinterlace feature later on.

If you have 'Video Type-NTSC or FILM or FILM 95%-99%' and the Frame Type Is Progressive Go to Video>Field Operations>Force Film

If you have 'Video Type-FILM' the 'Frame Type-Interlaced move the slider bar, if there isn't any lines Go to Video>Field Operations>Force Film

 Move the slider bar and you may notice interlaced artefacts(lines appearing), take a close look at at this image(click here). This means that you need to Deinterlace the video. So take a note of this.

Press F4 or go to File>Save Project, type in the movies name hit save.

When the process is finished you will have a d2v file and ac3 or mpa file.

Close DVD2AVI.

       Cropping

 Scroll down and select 'null transform' click 'OK'.

Aspect Ratio

Click 'Add...' again scroll down and select
'resize' and click 'OK'. A new window will appear.

Look on the back of the DVD cover where you will find a ratio that relates to the height and width of the movie (2.35:1). Check the table below (it is not recommended to go higher than 700 for the width. I have chosen 640x272, ' width - 640' ' height - 272', choose 576 (width) for lower bitrates.

Go to 'Filter mode' select 'Precise bilinear'.
Press OK to bring you back to the 'Filters'.

If the ratio isn't on the DVD cover try here http://us.imdb.com/ type the film in search, on the left of the films page, click on 'technical specs'......

If it was found that you had interlaced artefacts as discussed before, you need to preform a deinterlace feature.

Go to Video>Filters...
Click 'Add'
Scroll down to 'deinterlace'
Click 'OK'

A new window will appear.

Click 'OK'
Click 'OK' to bring you back to the main window.

Optional

Subtitles

Permanent Subtitles

Changeable Subtitles

Select Video Bitrate Calc

Basic Settings

In Hr:Min:Secs, enter the videos length as worked out from VirtualDub eg 1:41:31.88.

Audio Bitrate kbps select between 96 kbps - 192kbps, if you want to sacrifice audio quality for better quality video choose 96 kbps.

No.Of CD's select 1.

Extra Settings

CD Capacity (MB) select your CD size eg 700MB.

Extra material (MB) select 0.

DivX version select 4/5

Click on Advance

Select frame Type PAL 25 fps, NTSC 23.976 fps or NTSC 29.97 as discussed in DVD2AVI. click OK

Write down the 'Estimated Video Bitrate' i.e. 842 kbps

Close Ecuador's AVI Bitrate Calculator

Go to 'Variable bitrate mode' choose
'Multipass 1st pass'.

Go to 'Encoding bitrate' type in '842'
as calculated from Ecuador's AVI Bitrate Calculator.

Under Performance/Quality use thr default 'Standard' but if you have plenty of time or fast computer, select 'slow' or 'slowest'.

Check 'Write MV file:' box.

Go to File>Save as AVI or press F7
A new window will appear.

A window will appear.

Go to 'Variable bitrate mode'
choose 'Multipass, nth pass'
check 'Update Log File'

Click 'OK'
Click 'OK' again to bring you back to the main window.

Again check
'Don't run this job now; add it to job
control so I can run it in batch mode' box
in the lower left hand corner
(this is important).
click 'Save'.

Two passes have now been saved.

Optional
If you wish to improve video quality,
Go to File>Save as AVI... or press F7
select 'Save', thus saving
'Multipass, nth pass' a second time (third pass)
Next Go to Video>Compression or Ctrl+C
Select 'DivX Pro(tm) 5.1 Codec'
Click 'Configure'
untick 'Write MV file:' box
Go to File>Save as AVI... or press F7
select 'Save'

Four passes have now been saved.

Go to File>Job control or press F4

A new window will appear.

Go to 'Source File' browse to the folder and open the ac3 or mpa file(audio) you made with DVD2AVI.

Go to 'Destination Format' go to the
drop down box and select MP3.

If you have an older version Sound Card
you will have to check 'Resample to 44.1 kHz'.

Under Output Channels, in the Left and Right or Center(of your audio source is mono)drop down box select no

Click 'Options>>' again

Next to Preset: select 'Alt ABR'
Next to Mode: select 'ABR'

Click 'Start'

Next to 'File Name' type in a 'new name' for the movie eg 'Virtuosity with audio' etc, the file name must be different..

Click 'Save'

In one to two minutes your movie
will be complete with sound.

If the Video is in sync with the Sound and the size is at or just under 700MB eg 699MB thats it! You can now close down all programs, burn it to CD or transfer it to a Videos folder and delete the folder where the files were held....

If your movie is a few mb over 700mb for 1 CD eg 703mb go back to Headac3he and change the 88mb to 86mb or 85mb and then follow the Nandub guide again.

If the video isn't in sync with the audio go to
the Audio/Video synchronization page