This is a simple tutorial to help you rip DVD to a high-quality standards-compliant H.264/AVC/AAC/MP4 video
In fact, this tut isn't really made by me, just a great tut that I found somewhere long times ago, now I think it maybe useful.
Note : we need at least 15 GB to do.
Section 1 : The Tools
1. DVDDecrypter
2. MEGui
3. Gordian Knot
4. Nero AAC Encoder
5. Ciler's AC3 Tool
6. Sony Soundforge
Section 2 : Rip the DVD
+ Star DVD decrypter
+ Click Tool/Setting/ IFO mode
+ Choose like this
+ Click OK
+ Back to the main window, choose Edit / Select Main Movies
( Change the destination if you want )
+ Click Start
Section 2 : Processing the ripped files and extracting the audio
+ Start Gordian Knot
+ Choose Ripping tab, then choose Prepare the VOBs, like this
+ DGIndex will start, Go to File / Open / Browse to your project directory / choose all of files , like
+ Click Open
+ On this new window, you choose the first VOB file, like :
+ Then click OK
+ New window appear, hit F5, you 'll see :
+ Go to the Video menu and choose
- YUV / RGB / PC Scale
- iDCT Algorithm - IEEE-1180 Reference
+ Finally, go to the File menu / Save Project
Section 3 : Converting The AC3 audio to WAV format
+ Start Ciler's AC3 Tool
+ Browse to select the AC3 file that was extracted in the previous step, like :
+ Then click the Launch Analysis button
(A dos windows appear, just wait for a few minutes till it done)
+ Click the AC3 > WAV tab , choose like this
+ Click the AC3 > WAV, close Ciler's AC3 tool when it done.
Section 4 : Normalise the audio and downsample to 44.1kHz
+ Start Sound Forge
+ Open the WAV file you created in the previous step
+ Go to the Process / Normalize, choose like this :
+ Click OK
When it's done, go to the Process menu / Resample
+ Click OK
+ Finally, go to File menua, choose Save
Section 5 : Convert the audio to AAC
+ Start MEGui
+ In audio tab, browse to the wav file in the previous step, then choose like :
+ Then click Enqueue
+ Go to the Queue tab,
+ Click Start. Wait till it's done.
Section 6 : Crop and resize the video and approximate the bitrate
+ Back to Gordian Knot
+ Select the Bitrate tab, browse to and open the D2V file you created
when you processed the rip and extracted the audio, then choose like
this :
+ Select the Resolution tab, choose like this :
+ Choose save and encode in the preview window
+ A new window appear, click Save button
+ Back to MEGui
Section 8 : Set the video compression options and encode the video
+ On the Input tab, browse to the file you just saved, then choose like
+ Go to Tools / Bitrate Calculator , choose like :
+ Click Apply
+ Back to the main MEGui window, click the Enqueue button in the Video area
+ Switch to the Queue tab
+ Click the Start button
Section 9 : Mux the video and audio
+ Back to MEGui go to Tools / Muxer / MKV Muxer, browse to all the audio and video file in that you created, just like :
You now have a high-quality standards-compliant H.264/AVC/AAC/MP4 video made by yourself.
