How to produce a DivX film from DVD

1. DVD ripping
2. Film encoding
3. Adding a second audio track (bilingual film)
4. Subtitles ripping

1. DVD ripping
You need
• Smart Ripper 2.41
• A software DVD player like Power DVD

Run Smart Ripper and choose backup as ripping method.

Specify a target and click on start. It takes about half an hour or longer to copy the DVD to
your hard drive depending on the film length and your DVD drive speed.

If the DVD is copy protected play the DVD for a second in a software DVD player like Power
DVD first. This will unlock the encrypted DVD.

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2. Film encoding
You need
• DVDx 2.3
• DivX Codec 5.2.1

Run DVDx.

Open the DVD root by selecting the video_ts folder ripped before.

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Select the longest title. This is normally the film wanted.

Set input settings as shown above. Select the right audio track. Volume is a value around 3.
Use the sound normalizer in the tool directory to examine the exact value.

Set output settings as shown above. Resolution is 640x480 for a 4:3 source and 640x360 for
16:9 or wider film source. Click on “whole” to encode the whole film or specify a small
number of frames for a trial run. To reduce file size it’s feasible to chose 96 or even 80 kb/s as
MP3 bit rate. Important: Chose joint stereo.

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Click on “Pass 1 settings” and then “Pass 2 settings”.

Pass 1 settings, first page. Use the calculator to determine the required video bit rate. For a 90
minute film, 700 MB file size and 128 kb/s audio bit rate the right video bit rate is 950 kb/s.
Bit rates below 800 kb/s should be avoided but might still be OK for 16:9 films (result in
640x360) or animated films. Put in double the audio bit rate if you plan to produce a bilingual
film.

Click on “DivX Certified Profile”.

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Remove the tick next to “DivX Certified”. Click on “Weiter”.

Select “Adaptive Mehrfachfolge”. Click on “Fertig stellen”.

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Pass 1 settings, second page.

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Pass 2 settings, first page. Specify the same video bit rate as in pass 1. Click on “DivX
Certified Profile” and follow same procedure as above. Pass 2 settings, second page is equal
to pass 1.

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3. Adding a second audio track (bilingual film)
You need
• AVI-Mux GUI 1.14
• MM Avi Inf 1.0
• Morgan Stream Switcher 0.99 (for play back)

You have to encode the film again (see step 2) using a different audio language since AVI-
Mux requires avi-files as input and not pure mp3-files. To speed up encoding just chose 1-
pass encoding and the fast setting in the DivX codec.

Run AVI-Mux GUI and drag and drop the generated avi-files into the “open files” box. Mark
the avi file containing the first language and click on “add video source”. This will give you
source 1 in the “audio” box. Add the second avi file accordingly as source 2. Check output
options that they are the same as shown in the screen shot.

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Important: Highlight the source that contains the high quality video stream. Then click on
“start”. Specify the name of the resulting bilingual avi-file and let it process.

To name the audio streams in the just produced avi-file run MM Avi Inf. Click on “browse”
and specify the avi-file. All stream tags will be listed. Set the value for “Audio Stream 1”
(IAS1) to the actual language of source 1. Proceed with “Audio Stream 2” (IAS2)
accordingly. Click on “save”. A couple of bytes will be added to the avi-file.
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4. Subtitles ripping
You need
• SupRip 1.17.1
• VobSub 2.23 (for play back)

Run SubRip. Open VOB by selecting its IFO file usually named VTS_01_0.IFO in the
video_ts folder.

Chose what subtiles to rip in the drop down menu. Make sure the time code is set to zero.
Click on “start”.

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Successively you’re asked to identify new characters. Mind italic writing. If you name a
character wrongly by accident you can edit the character table/matrix later.

Once the whole film has been parsed you can correct automatically typical spelling mistakes
and save the text file as .srt in the subfolder “./subtitles”. The file name has to be the same as
from the avi file plus a language extension, e.g. if the film is stored in “./Love actually.avi”,
then the subtitles have to be saved in “./subtitles/Love actually.English.srt”.

It’s a good idea to store the charter table in case you want to come back to the same film. Best
to do it for each film separately.

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How to watch a bilingual DivX film
E.g.
Audio stream 1: English
Audio stream 2: German

Install the filter Morgan stream switcher. Run MMSwitch099.exe

and follow the instructions. Next time you start a bilingual film
in Windows Media Player you can switch the language from the
menu (Play -> Language).

How to view subtitles

All available subtitles reside in ./subtitles, one file for each
language.

Install the filter Direct VobSub. Run VobSub_2.23.exe and follow

the instructions. Next time when you start a film with subtitles
available a green arrow pops up in the system tray (lower right
corner). Right click on the arrow and a menu comes up where you
can choose the subtitles. Here you can also select the audio
stream.

How to play a DivX film at all

Install the DivX Codec. Run DivX521XP2K.exe if you have Windows 2000 or
XP installed (else run DivX521ME98.exe for Windows 98 or ME) and follow
the instructions. It is not necessary to install the DivX Player.

Films are best watched with the old Windows Media Player
(version 6.4) which can be found in
"C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\mplayer2.exe".
In this version you can choose the audio and/or subtitle language
conveniently from the program menu.

Another great, recommended, independent media player is Zoom Player.

It's small, highly adjustable and can handle bilingual films without using
Morgan stream switcher. The Direct VobSub subtitle menue is integrated.

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