DVD2AVI codec suggestions

DGrob wrote on 1/8/2005, 4:43 PM

I have a DVD (of my own) with no avi file archived. Searched the forums and settled on DVD2AVI to rip the vob files and render the audio as wav. It works surprisingly well, I must say.

Question: I can save the avi files as uncompressed, Huffy, or Main Concept DV (among others). A Huffy rip gave me over 30 gigs from a 48 minute program. The MCDV codec rip scaled that back to 10 gigs. My intent is to edit the program down to 28 minutes with a tighter, focused cut, and output back to DVD+R for play on local access TV.

Best quality codec(s) for the rip, for the Vegas timeline/avi, and for the prepare and burn would be????

TIA, Darryl

Comments

rebel44 wrote on 1/8/2005, 5:50 PM

The right answer would be the dvdarchitect if that program will work correct, but it does have some problems.Try dvdarchitect and see what happen

Hunter wrote on 1/8/2005, 11:28 PM

If DVD2AVI will use your MC codec, I think it would be the best. The uncompressed may be to large for Vegas's timeline - but I've never gotten DVD2AVI to rip uncompressed - always crashes.
Vegas will work with VOB files, but you have to rip audio from the VOB.
I have trouble with delay, so I don't use VOBs often.

Hunter

B_JM wrote on 1/9/2005, 2:46 PM

huffyuv - if you want to mantain the quality -- if you want to loose more quality than the already compressed mpeg , DV would be a good choice as it also will be a lot smaller file size ..

I see to many shortcomings in DV myself for SOME types of material ..

DGrob wrote on 1/9/2005, 3:17 PM

Thanks all. I've looked around some since the post and think I'll go Huffyuv for the rip (even if it is 30 gigs), and edit off that. Then render back into DVDA NTSC and burn. Don't really have the time to do a qualitative comparison, but it seems to assure a contender for maximum quality retention. Darryl