1. DirectShow filters
2. GraphEdit - to check the DirectShow configuration is perfect
3. WM9 Bitrate Calculator - calculate the video bit rate
4. DVD2AVI 1.77.3dg1.0.0RC2 or higher - determine crop information
5. Windows Media Encoder 9
Insert the DVD and open DVDDecrypter
Source > choose the drive which you inserted the DVD
Go to Mode > IFO Read Mode
Go to Tools > Settings > IFO Mode
Options > File Splitting > None
Press OK and decrypt the DVD
Note down the length of the movie. You need this to determine bit rate for the WMV file.
Once you have run the registry modification for InterVideo Audio Decoder, you can go to DirectShow Configuration
You can access the above InterVideo Audio Decoder Properties in GraphEdit as shown below, by right clicking InterVideo Audio Decoder and then clicking Properties. You cannot directly change the option there to 6 speaker mode by simply clicking the option button for some weird reason -- it always goes back to 2 speaker mode unless you have done the registry modification. The registry entry forces the decoder to output 6 channels.
Open GraphEdit > File > Render Media File
Open the VOB file you decrypted using DVD Decrypter
Windows Default mpg2splt.ax with InterVideo Audio Decoder and InterVideo Video Decoder
Elecard MPEG2 Demultiplexer with InterVideo Audio Decoder and Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder is also recommended.
Start Windows Media Encoder
New Session > Convert a file
Browse for the VOB file as the source file
Browse for the output file (My_Movie_Lossless.wmv)
Encoding options > File archive
Deselect : Begin converting when I click Finish
Click Finish
Go to Properties
Go to Compression tab
Press Edit
Here you can choose Windows Media Video 9 or Windows Media Video 8. Tip: WMV8 will provide faster encoding without any noticeable quality loss.
Go to the Quality Based tab and choose VBR Quality 100, 48 kHz, 5.1 Channel 24-bit VBR
Video is already VBR Quality 100 and same as input
Press OK and Go to Video Size tab
Open DVD2AVI and open the VOB file
Go to Video > Clip & Resize, and find out how much you have to crop from top and bottom (and from Left and Right if applicable). For this you have to tick the check box (then only DVD2AVI changes the video and acts according to the crop settings you specify) in the Clip & Resize box and slide the top and bottom indicators.
Set Cropping method to custom and use cropping information you found from DVD2AVI (as below)
You will not do setting up any Attributes now
Press Start Encoding
This will take 1 hour or more depending on the movie length and your PC's performance
If you have DVD Burner you can burn this lossless WMV file to a DVD-R, else you can proceed with the next step to burn it to a CD-R.
If you forgot to note down the length while decrypting in DVD Decrypter, then play the VOB file in a DVD player to determine the length of the movie.
Use WM9 Bitrate Calculator to determine the bitrate for the Video Bit Rate for one 700 MiB CD or according to your preference. If you choose to archive the DVD to one CD, and the movie is over 2 hours long, you better use Windows Media Video 9, else you can use Windows Media Video 8.
If you are using multiple CD sizes
you must use CBR for both Audio and Video. Use Windows Media File editor to split those
to multiple CDs.
See the guide for splitting large files in the Knowledge base.
Open Windows Media Encoder. Close wizard (we won’t use it).
Go to Properties (from Main Toolbar).
Source from > Set to File and Browse for your Lossless WMV file
Go to Output and Deselect Pull from Encoder
Select Encode to File and Press browse and set final output file My_video.wmv
Check here for avoid encoding the cast
Go to Compression and press Edit
Select Audio, and set Audio Codec to Windows Media Audio 9 Professional, set Mode to VBR (Variable Bit Rate)
Select Video, and set Video Codec to Windows Media Video 9, set Mode to Bit Rate VBR (Variable Bit Rate)
Go to the tab next to General
Select Audio format > 192 kbps, 48 kHz, 5.1 Channel, 24 bit VBR
Set Video size to same as video input.
Set frame rate 25fps for PAL or 29.97fps for NTSC (check the DVD Box)
Set Key frame interval to 4 seconds. Decreasing the key frame interval is suitable for high-motion content, such as movies. Do not set it lower than 4 otherwise it will take a very long time to encode.
If you resize the movie to a lower resolution, during play back full screen it stretches and it gets worsen quality. But if you know what you are doing there is no problem with resizing. You can use the Movie Resolution Calculator for this purpose. But if you know the math, go ahead. :)
Set Attributes (optional). http://www.comingsoon.net/database.php
Go to Processing tab
If the movie has horizontal strips during playback in DVD2AVI when you drag the slider fast, your source video is telecined. Therefore select inverse telecine. You should have at least 30fps in your source video i.e. NTSC to support inverse telecine.
If you do not want to apply any preprocessing filters to your content you should select none. You should only use this option if your content is already in progressive-scan display format.
If the movie is interlaced, then you can choose deinterlace.
Tip: DVD2AVI will be able to tell you all these information once you open the VOB file in it. Press Preview (F5).
Press Apply
View > Video Panel, View > Audio Panel: deselect them both. This will reduce the encoding time to some extent
Close Properties
Press Start Encoding
Go to Sleep
Wake up
Close Windows Media Encoder
Enjoy! :)
If you end up with a file size less than what you expected, don't worry because Windows Media Encoder doesn't always need the assigned bit rate to compress all the frames. It uses less bit rates whenever it is possible and thus end up with lesser file sizes. You can try increasing the percentage error in the WM9 Calculator (for about 3%) and use that bitrate for your Video.
Go back to Knowledge Base
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This guide is last edited on 22/02/2005 08:35:55
