Movies & Video's

    Yea i'm sure you've noticed a number of movies on web pages on FTP'z and wondered 'how'd they do that?' Well basically as far as i've been told they sit down in the theatre with a camera and record the stuff and then digitise it onto computer and clean it up there or steal the origional copy.

    Not much else i can say except that there are most commonly 2 types of video format when down loading ripped vids. VCD and MPEG, MPEG generally tend to be better quality but are huge in size sometimes in the low gigs. VCD's are about 500mb but quality isn't the best. If you ask me i'd rather see the VCD and save myself some time.

    You watch movies in Windows Media Player and if it's in MPEG try out full screen and it should stay crisp. Usually the Graphics Card and your processor makes the biggest differnce on your quality.

    Yes you can rip DVD movies I've never tried it before but right now I'm looking at an app called DVD Ripper yea u also can convert ISO to MPEG with an app called ISO - MPEG another format I should talk about is called VIVO. It's used much less now a days. I rarley if ever see it, last time I think was for Jerry Springer too hot for T.V. Usually it's run off VIVO Player you'll know it by it's extension just thought i should mention it.

    In case you don't know a DVD or digital video disc is the newest advancement in video quality. Both picture and should are a lot sharper and clearer. A friend of mine has a DVD player and in my mind spent way too much for it, anyways, unless you have a DVD burner no you can't burn DVD's the average DVD CD I think is 4GB!! I'm looking at an app called DVD to MPEG, you can guess what it does. Actually I read on a page somewhere that some hackers decipered the DVD code and that's what makes decompiling it and converting it possible. DVD's are now being bootlegged in DIVX format which is an extremely higly compressed format and requires a lot of power to run them. A friend is on a 266 and wuz running choppy so you'll be needing in excess of 450 to enjoy yourself but amazing quality is your reward. Ppl new to the scene will be laughing at us that we put up with asf's in the future same as how u laugh at ppl who watched black and white tv.

Various Qualities of movies

cam: Camcorder in the audiance

ts: Cam usually in the projector booth. Audio is from a feed, so there is no echo or background noise.

screener: Pre-release / promotional VHS tape. Sent to theater owners, and video stores. Very good quality, usually has some bogus do not copy message that comes up every 15-30 minutes.

VHS: Good old VHS

Dvd-rip: Usually the highest quality. Taken directly from the DVD source and transcoded to DivX, SVCD, or VCD.

 

How to convert DVD Video to VCD (video CD)

Fortune City don't allow to serve file > 1 mega so I have to cut them sometimes to 2 parts!

I. Download and Install Process

Xing DVD Player 2.0.3 Full & All Bug Fixes 1st part 2nd part
DVD Rip 1.04
Sonic Foundry Soft Encode 1.0
Womble Multimedia Mpeg2Vcr 3.00
VCDCutter 4.01
I put VobSnoopy for those that aleady have the vob file on their HD and have to split Video an Audio with it and continue with step III. 1st part 2nd part
The Install Password is : VOBS-12137 
Install all these software
A multiplexor it's include in MPEG2VCR Software
Anyway i put DVMPEG 5.01 Full Retail Version that can Multiplex Wav and Mpeg and you can also capture with Powerriper 1.6 directly on Mpeg but I don't try it yet! 1st part 2nd part 3th part 4th part 

II. Ripping Process

Launch DVDRip.
In the launch section write the location of Xing DVD Player
Select separate file Video/Audio
Launch the DVD Video in Xing DVD Player by clicking on Launch
Open the DVD Video
Start the Movie and Click start on DVDRip
At the end of the movie you will get two file
The Audio
The Video


III. Conversion Process

To convert the audio file from ac3 to wav use SoftEncode
Open the file in sofencode
Choose Save as in the File menu and select wav format

To convert the video file from mpeg2 to mpeg1 video only
Open the file in MpegVcr 
Choose the record button on the open window
Click the video button
Choose MPEG 1
Change width and height to 352 x 288
Change bitrate to 1152000
Change gop to 12
Click OK
Choose the VBS mpeg format
Give a filename
Click OK


IV. Multiplexing Process


Now you have a wav file and a m2v file
Open the multiplexer select the audio file select the video file
and give a new name to the Mpeg1 file !


V. Cutting Process

Cut the Mpeg1
Launch VCD Cutter open the mpeg1 file
Cut it in about 1 hours 
You will get two file of ~650 megs that you can burn on cdr!!!


VI. Burning Process

Now you can burn the files on two cdr!
If you want to make a Video CD with dat extension use MPG2DAT


Finish Easy Huh ;-)

For any Question E-Mail me at powerkiller_2000@hotmail.com or join me on EFNET #pcdvd
If you have other way of ripping DVD to VCD please contact me !
Thanks to all user on #pcdvd that help me in this adventure!
How to Sync Audio/Video
Troubleshooting 

http://www.nida.nih.gov/MarijBroch/Marijteens.html