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At first I used DVDFab 5 to rip scratched DVDs because DVD Decrypter has no facility to skip bad sectors. Later when I experimented with encoding I tried DVDFab which is a fairly respectable video encoder, and unlike freeware like AutoGK or WinFF can be easily customised by the newbie. Its only real weakness is a lack of any option to de-interlace, and default settings (eg. the framerate) that may only increase the encoding time and produce worse results.
It has the ability to encode a DVD on the fly but I still prefer to rip and then encode (usually with Nero Recode) to save wear and tear on the DVD drive.
Nero Recode can encode a DVD into its "standard" format very quickly but grinds to a comparative halt when encoding to H264, DVDFab seems to have the edge here as it can encode to H246 and AAC in a reasonable timeframe. However when Nero Recode's 2-pass is so quick and it can intelligently resize, I usually use that (I wish newbies who squash full-res video into a few hundred megabytes did too). For encoding for uploading to the internet, I would probably use DVDFab 5 as it can encode in common formats like xvid and mp3, even if I have to guess the most appropriate size and aspect ratio. I recently discovered that DVDfab can extract the audio from a DVD, much easier than using DVD Decrypter. |
