dvd ripping and buring TEMPGenc etc ! :-)

[RJK]

Off and on during the past two years at least, I've been fiddling with DVD,
and trying to burn a DVD ...no joy ...well partial joy !
I've been playing with my StarWars trilogy dvd set - that I bought !
I ripped StarWarsIV - "A New Hope" with SmartRipper, to get the vob files
onto hd, and I used DVDtoAVI to rip off the sound track etc.

....and I've been fiddling with TMPGEnc.exe ever since. I've just done a
FIVE HOUR *.mpg (mpegII) creation and the screen ratio is wrong, i.e. the
image is a bit too vertically "stretched" when I play the *.mpg with
PowerDVD on my PC.

I'm wondering if it's to do with "cropping" off the top and bottom black
bars in TEMPGEnc - Starwars IV is 16:9

....this is too horrendoues to explain - .....is there anyone in here who
knows how to set TEMPGenc.exe dubber to make a *.mpg file out of a 16:9 dvd
rip that plays in the correct screen ratio using PowerDVD ?

....any hints gratefuly accepted,

regards, Richard

ps I'm fighting with PAL, not NTSC ...am in UK

 

[Kenny]

For straightforward DVD copying get DVD Shrink.
http://www.dvdshrink.org/what.html
For the odd one Shrink balks at use DVD Decrypter.
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/dvd_decrypter.cfm
Both are free and much better than some of the commercial stuff.

 

[RJK]

Thanks Kenny, I'll look into that one. I tried DVDcopy2 and was
disappointed at the results when played in my DVD player. i've been playing
with Virtualdub and TEMPGenc encoders. Virtualdub seems only interested in
creating Divx5 which of course is okay fro playing on a PC but, doesn't seem
able to make a mpeg2 file. ....so many settings in both of them !!

regards, Richard

 

[RJK]

....apologies for not prefixing subject with "OT"

regards, Richard