How to create aXXo quality DvD Rips

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:51 pm

Axxo, don’t we all love him? let’s face it, the guy puts hundreds of movies up for us all to enjoy, and the quality is always spot on.

The purpose of this guide is so that everyone can make quality rips and not just rely on one or two people, imagine the amount of quality films coming through if we all used this method, it’s as simple as going to a DVD rental store or site, getting the DVD and creating a perfect 700mb DVD rip for the rest of us to enjoy.

Anyway, enough talking, let’s get to it.

You will need 4 bits of software, these are included in this guide.
1. DVD Decrypter --> http://www.mrbass.org/dvdrip/SetupDVDDecrypter_3.5.4.0.exe
2. AGK --> http://www.autogk.me.uk/
3. AVImux_GUI (installation instructions at end of guide for this one) --> http://www.alexander-noe.com/video/amg/
4. K-lite Codec Pack (if you already have a codec pack installed you can leave this one out) --> http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm

Step one: Installing the software
Pretty easily done, just click, execute and follow all the instructions for the individual application, AGK will need to install various types of compressors, this is essential as it’s AGK which does all the file size compression.

Part 1 – Ripping the actual DVD to your Hard Drive

Step 1

Open DVD Decrypter, the program should look similar to the image above. Source is the original DVD that is in your DVD Driver. Destination is the folder where the files will be stored.

Make sure you select a folder on a hard drive that has enough storage space as the folder will be approx 3.0 – 4.3 GB in size.

Step 2

Place the DVD that you want to rip in your DVD Drive. Now select your DVD Drive from the source drop down box. As you can see, mines a LG HL-DT-ST. Label is what the DVD is named on the Disc. Region is what regional settings the disc is set to. As you can see, the disc that I’m using is region free, as it list all the regions. This disc also has no RCE protection. This DVD also doesn’t have a copyright protection system on it either. If your disc has the region set to one system and RCE Protection is set to yes, you can remove if by selecting the “Tool” menu, then
clicking “Settings…”

The setting dialog will then appear. Now tick the “Remove Macrovision Protection” check box, this will remove the Macrovision flag of the VOB files on the disc. RCE Protection Region should be set to the region your drive (or standalone DVD player) has. You can find the regions
below.

DVD regions

Region 1 - 1: U.S., Canada, U.S. Territories
Region 2 - Japan, Europe, South Africa, and Middle East (including Egypt)
Region 3 - Southeast Asia and East Asia (including Hong Kong)
Region 4 - Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Central America, Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean
Region 5 - Eastern Europe (Former Soviet Union), Indian subcontinent, Africa, North Korea, and Mongolia
Region 6 - Peoples Republic of China
Region 7 - Reserved
Region 8 - Special international venues (airplanes, cruise ships, etc.)

Step 3

Click the small folder with the magnify glass icon. The save dialog will then appear. Select a folder that you want the DVD to be ripped to. Remember to make sure you have enough space available on your hard drive.

Step 4

You are now ready to start the decryption process. Select all the files in the list as seen above (By
pressing Ctrl + A). The small status at the bottom of the program tells you how many files are selected, which in this case there are 12. It also tells us the total size of all the files that are selected. This is a good indication on what space you will need available on your hard drive. Once they are all selected, all you have to do is click the big button on the bottom left of the program (The button with the DVD disc, Green arrow and Hard Drive icons).

The program is now extracting the sectors, now all you have to do is wait until the process has finished. In other words, you can have a break for a while.

Step 5

When this process is finished, this dialog will appear. Now go to the folder that you selected as your destination. All the files should be in the folder that you selected. You can test the files by opening your favourite DVD player software and testing the movie.

Part 2 – Converting the DVD to AVI (Ripping)

Open AutoGK, it should look like the one above. This program is very simple to use. Basically what is going to happen is:

• Step 1 - Select an input file and output file
• Step 2 – Select audio track and subtitle track
• Step 3 – Select output size
• Step 4 – (Optional): advance parameters
• Step 5 – Converting
Let’s get started then.

Step 1 – Selecting the Correct Input File and Output File

Click the folder icon next to the input file box. The open dialog will then appear.

Now locate the destination folder that you used in Part 1, when you were using DVD Decrypter.
Open the “VIDEO_TS” folder. The files should look something like the above. Now what we are
going to do is change the view of this folder. This can be done by clicking and selecting the
“Details” option.

Now that you have changed the view, the open dialog should look like the one below.

The input file that we are going to select is an *.IFO file.
As you can see from the above image, there are 3 *.IFO in the folder

• VIDEO_TS.IFO
• VTS_01_0.IFO
• VTS_01_0.IFO

The way to determine which file to select is by the file sizes of the files.
Think of VTS_01.IFO as a set. This set has 5 VOB files associated with, this set has the largest file sizes in it, and so we select VTS_01_0.IFO as the input file. Now click the “Open” button.

• VTS_01_0
• VTS_01_1
• VTS_01_2
• VTS_01_3
• VTS_01_4

Next, click the small folder button next to the “Output file:” text box. The “Save As” dialog will appear. Save the file as whatever you want to call it and in the location that you want.

Step 2 - Selecting the audio and subtitles

As you can see from the image above, the program lists the audio tracks that are available and the subtitle tracks that are available. Select the language that you want your DVDRip to have.

You can also rip the subtitle tracks also. To do so, just tick what subtitles you want. As you can see, I selected English AC3 6ch. I always choose the 6ch option over the 2ch. 6ch is surround sound and 2ch is just your basic left and right sound.

Step 3 – Selecting output size

When creating a DVDRip most people tend to have a file size set to around 700mb. So place a check in the “Custom size (MB):” radio check box. Then type in 700 in the box next to it. So the outcome of the DVDRip will be 700mb. You can change the file size, the more MB that you add,
generally the clearer the DVDRip will be.

Step 4 – Advance Parameters

Click the Advance Settings button like above to show the Advance options dialog.

For “Output resolution settings” I usually select Auto width.
For “Codec” I personally prefer XviD over DivX, it seems to produce a better image quality, so choose XviD.

For “Output audio type”, I normally leave it set to Auto. If you are ripping music videos from a DVD, i suggest you select “Original” as it would produce a lot better sound quality then normal.

For “Output format” select AVI.
For subtitle options, I don’t tick any of the boxes.
Click the “OK” button to save your settings.

Step 5 – Converting

Now that everything is setup correctly, you may begin the converting process. Click the “Add Job” button, to add it to the Job queue.

As you can see, the job is now in the Job queue.

Now all you have to do is click the Start button to begin converting

It will take a while for the converting to be done, so be patient, and once you click start in the AKG window, at first it will look like not much is happening, but make sure you keep an eye on your explorer bar (or whatever it’s called)

AGK tells the other parts of the compressors it installed to get going, this will appear approx 5 mins after you click start, can be longer,
can be shorter. it will crush the movie about 2 times before it will be ready, you’ll also see a couple of CMD windows, open these up an you’ll see AGK compressing the frame rate, But to be honest it’s better to just leave it now until the movies finished being made.

Note: the first time you use this method, after you click start in AGK you will need to keep an eye out for that logo, because it’s the first time it’s been used it comes up with a welcome screen, just click it and then it will continue to do the movie, once you have done that, you will never have to do it again.

Just leave it a while and then when the movie is done (you’ll know because that logo circled in red will go) you can delete all those files you extracted with DVD Decrypter.

Before we finish there is one fial part, hopefully you won’t have to use this but you might do, ever seen those avi’s where the picture quality is great but the sound is out of sync? That’s where AVIMux comes in.

Once the conversion process is all done, check your new AVI, 99 times out of ten the sound will be fine, sometimes though it can be out of sync, if it is don’t worry, it can be fixed in a matter of minutes, here’s how.

Firstly:
http://www.alexander-noe.com/video/amg/
for some info on the program you want it.
If not just follow the steps set out below.

step 2: extract the zip into it's own folder (i just called it avimux gui)
step 3: click exe file
step 4: drag the avi file into the top section
step 5: highlight it
step 6: click generate data source from files
step 7: 2 parts appear video and audio, select audio
step 8: on the right hand side it says delay (ms) enter 180 (this will be different for every movie, you may need to play around with this rate a little until you get it right.
step 9: click start, select a save as file name and location
step 10: click save, wait around 60 seconds - full in sync copy of Avi file
Note: this can be used on ANY avi file, so if you’ve downloaded one that isn’t in sync, just play around with it in this until you got the sync right.

That’s it guys your all done. Happy ripping and let’s see some more great rips out there!

Thanks to paKKo

Wink

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:11 pm

You sir ... are an absolute SAINT for finding this. I had 1000's of movies ... lI wanted to drop on the web, but I did not want to have to deal with sharing a 3.4 gig file.

I thank you very much Smile

Everyone ... OBEY!!!!! Do you have ANY idea how many movies we can have on the web if we all follow this tutorial ? Neutral

All you people from foreign countries .... with the unreleased stuff, and the not so commons .... DO IT!! Smile

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:26 pm

I just converted Wolf Creek to a 700MB Xvid and the quality is awesome for a 95 min movie. All in 1hr 22 mins!!!

Heres the log

[3/27/2008 3:20:37 PM] AutoGK 2.45
[3/27/2008 3:20:37 PM] OS: WinXP (5.1.2600).2
[3/27/2008 3:20:37 PM] Job started.
[3/27/2008 3:20:37 PM] Input file: F:\WOLF_CREEK\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.IFO
[3/27/2008 3:20:37 PM] Output file: C:\Documents and Settings\8MM\Desktop\WOLF_CREEK.avi
[3/27/2008 3:20:37 PM] Output codec: XviD
[3/27/2008 3:20:37 PM] Audio 1: English AC3 6ch
[3/27/2008 3:20:37 PM] Subtitles: none
[3/27/2008 3:20:37 PM] Format: AVI
[3/27/2008 3:20:37 PM] Target size: 700Mb
[3/27/2008 3:20:37 PM] Audio 1 settings: Auto
[3/27/2008 3:20:37 PM] Started encoding.
[3/27/2008 3:20:37 PM] Demuxing and indexing.
[3/27/2008 3:22:42 PM] Processing file: F:\WOLF_CREEK\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB
[3/27/2008 3:22:42 PM] Processing file: F:\WOLF_CREEK\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_2.VOB
[3/27/2008 3:22:42 PM] Processing file: F:\WOLF_CREEK\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_3.VOB
[3/27/2008 3:22:42 PM] Processing file: F:\WOLF_CREEK\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_4.VOB
[3/27/2008 3:22:42 PM] Processing file: F:\WOLF_CREEK\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_5.VOB
[3/27/2008 3:22:42 PM] Processing file: F:\WOLF_CREEK\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_6.VOB
[3/27/2008 3:22:42 PM] Source resolution: 720x576
[3/27/2008 3:22:42 PM] Found PAL source.
[3/27/2008 3:22:42 PM] Source aspect ratio: 16:9
[3/27/2008 3:22:42 PM] Color correction enabled.
[3/27/2008 3:22:42 PM] Analyzing source.
[3/27/2008 3:25:05 PM] Source has percentage of interlacing in motion areas: 0.34
[3/27/2008 3:25:05 PM] Source is considered to be progressive.
[3/27/2008 3:25:05 PM] Output will contain 143530 frames
[3/27/2008 3:25:05 PM] Decoding audio.
[3/27/2008 3:27:16 PM] Normalizing audio.
[3/27/2008 3:29:02 PM] Encoding audio.
[3/27/2008 3:35:36 PM] Audio1 size: 80,847,240 bytes (77.10 Mb)
[3/27/2008 3:35:36 PM] Overhead: 5,741,184 bytes (5.48 Mb)
[3/27/2008 3:35:36 PM] Video size: 647,414,776 bytes (617.42 Mb)
[3/27/2008 3:35:36 PM] Running compressibility test.
[3/27/2008 3:35:36 PM] Writing the following script to C:\Documents and Settings\8MM\Desktop\agk_tmp\WOLF_CREEK_comptest.avs
===========================================================
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\DGMPGDec\DGDecode.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\autocrop.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\ColorMatrix.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\RemoveGrainSSE3.dll")

movie = mpeg2source("C:\Documents and Settings\8MM\Desktop\agk_tmp\WOLF_CREEK.d2v")
cropclip = autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=10,aspect=0,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0,leftadd=0,rightadd=0,topadd=0,bottomadd=0)
fixed_aspect = 1.42222222222222
c_width = width(cropclip)
c_height = round(height(cropclip) / fixed_aspect)
input_par = float(c_width)/float(c_height)
input_par = (input_par > 1.4) || (input_par <1> 4) ? (out_height + (16 - hmod)) : (out_height - hmod)
new_aspect = (float(out_width) / float(out_height)) / fixed_aspect
autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=10,aspect=new_aspect,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0,leftadd=0,rightadd=0,topadd=0,bottomadd=0)
LanczosResize(out_width,out_height)
RemoveGrain(mode=2)
ColorMatrix("Rec.709->Rec.601",opt=0,hints=false,threads=0)
SelectRangeEvery(300,15)
===========================================================
[3/27/2008 3:37:50 PM] Duration was: 2 minutes 13 seconds
[3/27/2008 3:37:50 PM] Speed was: 53.83 fps.
[3/27/2008 3:37:50 PM] Compressibility percentage is: 55.72
[3/27/2008 3:37:50 PM] Chosen resolution is: 608x336 ( AR: 1.81 )
[3/27/2008 3:37:50 PM] Predicted comptest value is: 61.44%
[3/27/2008 3:37:50 PM] Running first pass.
[3/27/2008 3:37:50 PM] Writing the following script to C:\Documents and Settings\8MM\Desktop\agk_tmp\WOLF_CREEK_movie.avs
===========================================================
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\DGMPGDec\DGDecode.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\autocrop.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\ColorMatrix.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\RemoveGrainSSE3.dll")

movie = mpeg2source("C:\Documents and Settings\8MM\Desktop\agk_tmp\WOLF_CREEK.d2v")
cropclip = autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=10,aspect=0,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0,leftadd=0,rightadd=0,topadd=0,bottomadd=0)
fixed_aspect = 1.42222222222222
c_width = width(cropclip)
c_height = round(height(cropclip) / fixed_aspect)
input_par = float(c_width)/float(c_height)
input_par = (input_par > 1.4) || (input_par <1> 4) ? (out_height + (16 - hmod)) : (out_height - hmod)
new_aspect = (float(out_width) / float(out_height)) / fixed_aspect
autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=10,aspect=new_aspect,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0,leftadd=0,rightadd=0,topadd=0,bottomadd=0)
LanczosResize(out_width,out_height)
RemoveGrain(mode=2)
ColorMatrix("Rec.709->Rec.601",opt=0,hints=false,threads=0)
===========================================================
[3/27/2008 4:07:03 PM] Duration was: 29 minutes 13 seconds
[3/27/2008 4:07:03 PM] Speed was: 81.87 fps.
[3/27/2008 4:07:04 PM] Expected quality of first pass size: 58.81%
[3/27/2008 4:07:04 PM] Running second pass.
[3/27/2008 4:42:55 PM] Duration was: 35 minutes 51 seconds
[3/27/2008 4:42:55 PM] Speed was: 66.72 fps.
[3/27/2008 4:42:55 PM] Job finished. Total time: 1 hour, 22 minutes 18 seconds

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:38 pm

IMO this should be a sticky, great thread. Smile

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:45 pm

Ozperson wrote:

IMO this should be a sticky, great thread. Smile

Wish granted

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:13 am

Understand what?

Btw, aXXo ads few more tweaks by pressing Ctrl + F9.

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:31 pm

this is fantastic.. and really easy to follow.. thanks for taking the time to do it!

Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 9:23 am

Thats quality mate, thanks for that, will be able to make some rips for my own films that I have and maybe we'll get some others putting up some oldies and some newer ones as well. Smile

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:47 am

Wow. I'll be sure to try this out when I get the chance.

Very Happy

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:15 am

omg ty for this .. time to use this trick

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:16 am

Thanks for that ultra-detailed, easy-to-follow guide. I'll try it out as soon as I get to work. Very Happy

Now, does anyone have a similar guide that uses Mac software?

Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 4:47 pm

First I want to say thank you for the step by step guide. I think it's wonderful. My question is, I am following the steps and it's not working for me. I imagine, (what usually happens to me) is that I am so close and yet have one little thing going wrong to keep me from moving on so please if you can help me I would appreciate it very much.

I did the DVD decrypter and it worked wonders. In it, there are files with the .IFO extensions. But when I open my AGK and try to input the .IFO extension files it comes up as a .BUP file and it says it is not recognized.

It also says copyright protection type is CSS/CPPM. Does this mean it's a different kind of file system?

Please help - you all have been wonderful to me.. and I thank you.

Mrs. Red Thunder

Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:47 pm

MrsRedThunder wrote:

First I want to say thank you for the step by step guide. I think it's wonderful. My question is, I am following the steps and it's not working for me. I imagine, (what usually happens to me) is that I am so close and yet have one little thing going wrong to keep me from moving on so please if you can help me I would appreciate it very much.

I did the DVD decrypter and it worked wonders. In it, there are files with the .IFO extensions. But when I open my AGK and try to input the .IFO extension files it comes up as a .BUP file and it says it is not recognized.

It also says copyright protection type is CSS/CPPM. Does this mean it's a different kind of file system?

Please help - you all have been wonderful to me.. and I thank you.

Mrs. Red Thunder

no it means u need to remove the protection.

what region is the dvd and is it protected?

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:19 am

Thx m8 thats excellent

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 7:44 am

8MM wrote:

what region is the dvd and is it protected?

Region 1

And I finally got through the AGK .. it only took 12 hours but it's a 2 Gig avi. I am going to see if there is anyway that I can shrink it more.. Any suggestions?

Thanks again,
Mrs. Red Thunder