DivX Conversion on a small Hard-drive
Written By : Joker4ever
If you don't have enough hard drive space to fit
all the vobs from a dvd onto your hard drive, here's what you can
try. It worked for me. By the way, I use flask version 0.563 to encode all of my video Cds. Occassionally I will use newer versions. My logic is "if one version can't do it, another version can".
Rip as many vobs to your hard drive as you can, using Vobdec or decss I
have two hard drives, the first being 4 gigs and the second is 2
gigs. I can usually fit three vobs on my hard drive. Don't worry
about the rest, we'll get to them later. Now open flask and open
the first vob. Since I have the first three vobs, flask should
detect it and write it as on logical file. Now encode to what
ever format you want to use, ie divx, mpeg1 etc. It'll take quite
a bit of time.
Now assuming the encoding is over, delete the
first two vobs and keep the third, you'll need it since the next
vob relies on the previous vob. If you don't keep it, the video
will be corrupted. Now rip as many vobs as you can, if there's
only five vobs, rip the vob 4 and vob 5. You should now have 3
vobs on your hard drive.
The movie vobs are usually named VideoTS_01_1.vob
and VideoTS_01_2.vob. This is what flask detects to write as one
logical file. So you should now have VideoTS_01_3.vob and VideoTS_01_4.voband VideoTS_01_5.vob on your hard drive. Now you have to rename them so that flask will write these vobs as one logical file.
Rename VideoTS_01_3.vob to VideoTS_01_1.vob
Rename VideoTS_01_4.vob to VideoTS_01_2.vob
Rename VideoTS_01_5.vob to Video TS_01_3.vob
Now open the first vob in flask and you'll see that all three
vobs will now be written as one logical file.
Now you can encode these vobs. Here's a few things that I've
found using this method:
Using the divx codec, I changed the key frame value from every
ten seconds to every 1 second. This way the two videos will have
more key frames in common and can most likely be cut and joined
at the same point in time.
During the second encoding session, I encoded the whole thing.
I didn't bother starting where the last vob left off. That way I
could find more places to cut the two video files, since they both have the third vob in common.
I used Virtual Dub to cut and join the two video files to make
one continuous video file. First I cut the two files (at the same point in the movie) and made two new video files and then I joined the two new files.
When I played back the video, I watched carefully where I
joined the two files. I can see where the two videos were joined
but it's hardly noticable. The only reason I can see it is
because I know where I joined them. I asked my wife to watch as
well and she didn't notice any thing. I even told her what to
look for and she still didn't notice any thing. So then I told
her where I cut it and she still didn't notice any thing. It's
that smooth!!! The cut happens so fast and is so short, nobody
will know where you cut it as long as you do it right.