DVD to WMV9 with WMA9 Professional 5.1 Channel Surround Sound using AviSynth

This guide is intended to use if you using Microsoft® Windows® XP/2003 and want to archive DVDs to one CD.
If your movie is more than 150 minutes long, you should consider encoding the DVD to two CDs.

Note: Although encoding needs a Microsoft® Windows® PC, playback is possible in Mac OS and Linux.

Software requirements

• Compatible MPEG2 Decoder and an AC3 Decoder
• DVD Decrypter 3.1.7.0 or higher
• DVD2AVI 1.77.3dg1.0.0RC2 or higher
• AviSynth 2.5.4 or higher
• WM9 Bitrate Calculator
• AviSynth 2.5 Script Generator for WME9
• Windows Media Encoder 9.00.2980 or higher
• Windows Media Player 10.00.3646 or higher (for WMA 9.1 and WMV9 Advanced Profile)

If any of these above applications fail to load in your system, you will have to download the latest VB6 Run-time files and/or Microsoft .NET Framework from Microsoft.com.

Download Visual Basic 6.0 Run-Time Files

Download Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1

Instructions

• Install DVD Decrypter
• Install AviSynth
• Tip: Have all the other applications in a single folder e.g. DVD to WMV9
• If you are using InterVideo Audio Decoder be sure you to configure it for 6 channels
• Check whether your VOB files are rendered in a recommended way.
• Reinstall Windows Media Encoder even if you have already have it installed (to make sure you have original Windows Media run-time files)

Hardware requirements

• Intel® Pentium® 4 2.0 GHz or above for WMV9 encoding
• Intel® Pentium® III 800 MHz or above for WMV8 encoding
• 16X or above DVD ROM
• Free Hard Disk space of at least 10 GiB

Encoding speeds may vary depending on your PC’s performance and the DVD

This guide is last edited on 22/02/2005 08:35:55