DVDx starter guide

Overview
Copy a DVD to a DivX movie
Copy a DVD to a VideoCD
Copy a DVD to a Super-VCD
Copy a DVD to a Windows Media file (WMV/ASF)
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Overview

New DVDx users frequently ask how to use DVDx for the first time and quickly encode a DVD movie on their PC.

So I wrote this guide for the very beginners, you just have to follow on step by step instructions and screenshots.

The first guide is Copy a DVD to a DivX movie, because most of you burn DivX movies. The other guides just differ by the Output settings which are defined to output different formats: VCD, SVCD and WMV.

Copy a DVD to a DivX movie

1. Launch DVDx.
2. Insert the DVD movie in your DVD drive.
3. Open the DVD Root (Figure A) and select the biggest program chain.

4. In Input Settings (Figure B):

ensure the Program Chain Index is set to the biggest one
choose preferred Audio Track
choose Subtitle if desired
set appropriate Frame Rate (25.0 for PAL, 23. 976 or 29.97 for NTSC, eventually 24.0FPS)
set iDCT optimization to SSE2 for recent PC (including SSE3 processors). Or MMX or 3DNow for older processors.
set Deinterlace filter to None for a Hollywood movie (even to output a VCD size)
click OK

5. Open Output Settings (Figure C) and to make a DivX movie:

select AVI (DivX, YUV, ...)
select Use Lame in Audio
click Audio Lame and set Bitrate to 192Kbits (128 is correct too) and Quality to Q3 High
select the DivX codec (scroll down the codec list if huge)
set Pass 1 Settings with DivX Home Theater Profile, 1 pass, 1000kbit/s (Figure C1)
set resolution to 512x384 (or choose more appropriate from table herebelow)
set Zoom to Letterbox 16.9 → 4.3 for a 16:9 movie
set Resize to SSE2 or MMX or 3DNow (like for iDCT in Input Settings)
set Volume don't exceed to Infinite
click on Whole
click on Apply

Most popular resolutions for DivX movies:

6. Open File... Select Output File... and browse to the desired folder, then type a file name.

7. Click on the Encode button and enjoy the encoding preview!

Now you have an AVI file which you can play with Windows Media Player or DivX Player (or other) and you can also burn it on a data CD-ROM with Nero (or equivalent) and play it on a set-top DVD/DivX player.

Copy a DVD to a VideoCD

1. to 4. Proceed like for copying DVD to DivX movie.

5. Open Output Settings (Figure E ) and to make a VCD compliant movie:

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