Thread: Dr. DiVX Users

It's been a while since I've used it but from what I remember:

1. Umm, how much is it? Value is a personal judgement.
2. If I remember rightly yes, you rip but it's fast and easy.
3. I can dig up some info on what I used.
4. Quality is awesome, you can choose the quality, penalty is encoding time and file size. You can create HD/THX quality movies.

Have you read up on www.dvdrhelp.com ?

Isn't there an eval of Dr DivX you could try?

Chris.

I'm a big Divx fan. I convert a lot of movies that I either buy, borrow or rent into divx for use on my HTPC or Carputer. I use to use Dr. Divx. It was very easy and never seemed to have any problems. It does not rip the DVD's, you have to use something to rip the DVD to your HD first. I use the FREE program cladDVD.NET to do that. Currently I use AutoGK, donationware, to do the encoding. You still either have to use cladDVD.NET or DVDDecrypter to rip the DVD first.

If you are interested in ripping DVD's to VCD or SVCD, or converting Divx to VCD/SVCD's I would recommend DVD2VCD which again is donationware. It is actually a "suite". Basicly it's a frontend which runs other free software to encode the movie.

Is Dr. Divx worth the money? Probably, but you can do the same for free.

It does have limitations. It stores the audio in MP3 format, with AutoGK I an encode them with AC3 which works better for my HTPC then MP3. It also doesn't allow for plugins like AutoGK. I like to use cropping so I don't have to encode the black bands that some movies have.

I also would recommend http://www.dvdrhelp.com

there are all sorts of tutorials.

Dr.Divx IS a ripper, you can select what sort of DVD to use / discard and also select what sort of quality / output file.
I do not believe that it will work on Copyrighted stuff, and you will need something like AnyDVD running at the same time for stuff like that.
I prefer to use Nero Recode myself for DVD-DVD and DVD-MP4

good luck

Dr DivX is great for making high quality rips (700MB / 1.4GB) of DVD's at a decent speed with minimal effort.

Some problems exist though:
1. It does a really poor job with low bitrate encodes e.g. you wanted to reencode your favorite 350MB TV-Rip to a 100MB version
2. I've never been able to encode rips of home-made DVD's. Retail DVD's are no problem.
3 With the latest version I've gotten audio sync problems. Forced me to revert to the previous version.

But as always, grab the demo and give it a try.

1. Yes, to me it is.
2. It needs the DVD to be pre-ripped into a file, but...
3. ...it integrates nicely with smartripper (http://www.afterdawn.com/software/vi...martripper.cfm) You can have DrDivx launch this as an external app.
4. Movie quality is superb for the file sizes. For the car, I generally target 768Kbps video and 160Kbps audio, which is fine for the 7" screen. Of course you can go nuts with this, too, if that's your thing.