So I have found many posts out there where everyone can’t seem to find the “easy” or “user friendly” software that makes ripping DVD’s to your computer to stream to 360 via UPnP easy. Hopefully I have the solution that people want. I found that dumping the DVD stream with mplayer and using vlc to convert was the easiest method. I have also been playing with the formats and containers to encode with, and found the one that seems to look the best and still manage to save a little space.
First, simply put your DVD in the drive and use mplayer to dump the stream:
If you have an ISO image, then:
You should now have “stream.dump” in the folder that your executed the command in.
Next, launch vlc, then click on the “Media” menu option, and select “Convert / Save”.
Click “Browse” and select a location to save your file. Save your file as a “.mov” file.
Before starting, you will want to create a profile so that you can repeat this easily. Click the “New Profile” button which looks like a sheet of paper with a star on it. (last button in the Settings block)
In the “Encapsulation” tab, select “MP4/MOV”.
In the “Video codec” tab, check Video, Codec H-264, Bitrate 3200 kb/s, Frame Rate 35 fps. (I am still tweaking these settings for best quality, so any help would be appreciated).
In the “Audio codec” tab, check Audio, Codec MPEG 4 Audio (AAC), Bitrate 256 kb/s, Channels 2, Sample 48000.
After that, label your profile, save, and start your ripping. My video files, on average, are about 1.5GB in size.
Any help on fps and bitrates would be appreciated, for me, file size isn’t as much of a problem, I want the best quality.
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