This ripping guide was written for AviDemux 2.6.6 which can be downloaded from sites like filehippo or sourceforge.
AviDemux can encode several video formats, handle multiple audio tracks, and can add a single burned subtitle track. I’ve settled on using this after trying many other
programs, all giving me trouble in one way or another. So far, this program seems to work without too much of a hassle, save for the occasional DVD it somehow refuses to rip.
It describes how I rip my stuff, which doesn’t mean it’s the only way or best way to do it. Statistically speaking, it probably is neither…
step 1
Open the program by clicking on the desktop icon.
step 2
In Windows Explorer, locate the DVD folder. You cannot rip directly from a DVD, since the porogram wants to write information to the VIDEO_TS folder, so always copy the
DVD to your hard disk first. Once you have found the folder, figure out which VOB file series holds the main movie. Usually, this is simply the one that is the biggest
(eg: VTS_02_01.VOB, VTS_02_02.VOB and VTS_02_03.VOB). Drag and drop the first file of the series onto the AviDemux window. Do not use the VTS_xx_0.VOB file for this.
AviDemux will now discover there are several files with sequential filenames, and wants to know if it should load them all. Naturally, the answer is yes since that will
load the entire main movie.
After clicking yes, this will take some time. When done, AviDemux will show the very first frame of the main movie. Don’t worry if this is all black – in many movies
the very first frame is black.
step 3
Under Video output select the tab marked copy and select which format you would like to encode to. I choose MPeg4 ASP (xvid4) here. The configure button will
allow you to set some stuff, most interestingly you van choose your quality options here. Under encoding mode I choose Two pass – average bitrate and select 1500 kbps.
You can opt to go lower or higher (the higher the number, the bigger your rip will be of course). You can also go for Constant bitrate.
step 4
AviDemux also has several filters.
I mostly use the crop filter to crop away all the black borders around the image, followed by the swsResize filter. When cropping, you can opt to use the
autocrop option, but that never gives me the right results.
Even without cropping, you definitely want to use the swsResizefilter.AviDemux has a standard of outputting video to 640×480 pixels, which is incorrect in many cases.
So before I load the DVD in AviDemux, I figure out what the correct resolution should be. A few pixels off isn’t important here, you won’t see that in the result anyway.
Be sure to untick lock aspect ratio, input the correct resize dimensions and pick your favorite resizing method. You can also experiment with deinterlacing filters and add subtitles here.
step 5
Under Audio output you can choose which format the audio should be encoded to, and configure that, which mostly means setting the bitrate. If there is more than one
audio track, the configuration you choose here will be for all of them. If you wish to have different bitrates for different audio tracks, or even remove audio tracks (because
they’re a german dub or something), choose audio – select track in the top menu.
You can then tick only the boxes of the audio tracks you wish to keep (original language, audio commentary tracks, etc), and set the bitrate for each. You can even
encode one track to AC3 and the other to MP3 if you wish.
step 6
Sometimes you might want to crop off part of the beginning or ending of the movie. You can simply move the slider below the preview to the start point of your rip, set this as
point A, then move the slider to the end of your rip and set this as point B.
step 7
All that’s left now is some patience: click on the disk icon at the top, select where to store your rip and with which filename, hit save, and wait for several hours for the
encode to finish. Encoding time will depend on movie length, quality of the rip, but also of course on if you’re encoding in one pass or two. When don,e remember to delete the VTS_xx_1.VOB.idx file from your VIDEO_TS folder if you plan to do something with the folder like burn it to DVD or create a torrent file.
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