[Tutorial] Beginner?s Guide to Ripping DVD to MKV [Tutorial]

[Nguyen Trung Hoa]

I know there's a great tutorial (made by Viewsonic) that help us to rip DVD to .avi format. My tutorial under will help you to 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.

Well, there's 9 sections in this tut. They are :

Section 1 : The Tools
Section 2 : Rip the DVD
Section 3 : Process the ripped files and extract the audio
Section 4 : Convert the extracted AC3 audio to WAV
Section 5 : Normalise the audio and downsample to 44.1kHz
Section 6 : Convert the audio to AAC
Section 7 : Crop and resize the video and approximate the bitrate
Section 8 : Set the video compression options and encode the video
Section 9 : Mux the video and audio

Note : we need at least 15 GB to do.

Section 1 : The Tools

1. DVDDecrypter

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/90666567/SetupDVDDecrypter_3.5.4.0.exe
or
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/DVD_Decrypter.htm


2. MEGui

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/90667640/megui-0.2.6.1041.exe
or
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=156112&package_id=174059


3. Gordian Knot

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/90667336/GordianKnot.RipPack.0.35.0.Setup.2.exe
or
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=77391&package_id=78323


4. Nero AAC Encoder

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/90670769/neroAacEnc.exe
or
http://www.nero.com/ena/technologies-nerodigital.html


5. Ciler's AC3 Tool

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/90669629/ac3tool10.exe

6. Sony Soundforge

Code:

please search in apps , I'll update later. My connection is so slow.

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. Just upload and post it here.

Here's my favourite romantic movie - A Lot Like Love

Code:


http://rapidshare.com/files/75705791/A.Lot.Like.Love.part01.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/75689406/A.Lot.Like.Love.part02.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/75732168/A.Lot.Like.Love.part03.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/75742182/A.Lot.Like.Love.part04.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/75774225/A.Lot.Like.Love.part05.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/75753815/A.Lot.Like.Love.part06.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/75788408/A.Lot.Like.Love.part07.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/75795769/A.Lot.Like.Love.part08.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/75910489/A.Lot.Like.Love.part09.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/75961516/A.Lot.Like.Love.part10.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/75890936/A.Lot.Like.Love.part11.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/75903449/A.Lot.Like.Love.part12.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/75927504/A.Lot.Like.Love.part13.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/75939947/A.Lot.Like.Love.part14.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/75951930/A.Lot.Like.Love.part15.rar
Rar passord : baovucuongphong


or you can go here to download and write your comment

Code:

http://www.warez-bb.org/viewtopic.php?t=860662&highlight=

Note :
1. As I said, this tutorial isn't made by myself, I just love the hdtv-fan's high definition movies, so I search and found this tutorial, that's the best way I 've ever known to help me to rip DVD to high-quality standards-compliant H.264/AVC/AAC/MP4 video .Anyway, I hope this tut can help you to know how to rip DVD.
2. If someone need more info about how to use tool, why choose like this, ... just post it here.