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Tyborg · 03-10-07, 11:08 AM

Wow it seems as though some higher power just doesn't want you ripping DVDs. No, Fairuse has never encoded my audio and video seperate. I don't even know what setting you could have picked that would do that. I just ran through and encoded a short clip and didn't even see where I could choose a setting to do that.

There should be a Fairuse.log.txt file in the same directory as your finished .avi. That might have some clues about if it ran into an error. Mine spits out the .avi file and thats it.

In order to get widescreen a little more friendly for my axim I crop the ends slightly. The window that comes up after it indexes chains has an frame from the video on it. To the left of the window there is a cropping region. As you change the values here it will show you on the displayed frame how much you are cropping. Since DVD resolution is usually 720x480 and my axim is 640x480 I crop off 40 from each side so that the resolution width will now be 640 wide. Then I crop the black bars of the top and the bottom. Of course with the wide screen this means you are losing picture and the actual resolution ends up being around 640x304. The more of the picture you drop from the right and left the less of the black bars you will see on the top and bottom when you view it on your axim. You don't want to do to much or it will be harder to see what is going on though. Just play with it and find what works for you. You don't want to force the 4:3 resolution to completely get rid of the black bars because this will just stretch the clip and things will look distorted.

For experimenting before you convert the whole project since it takes so long just choose a shorter chain. In step 4 of the Fairuse guide FU usually finds the full length movie chain and you just press next. Instead choose a shorter preview or trailer chain that is only a couple minutes long. This will give you an idea of what your clip will turnout like. Make sure in the AR(aspect ratio) column you pick one that is the same as the main clip. So with a widescreen 16/9 movie make sure you don't pick a 4/3 chain or you won't be able to check and see how your cropping looks, because you won't have anything to crop its the same AR as the axim. Now converting this smaller chain will give you a quicker clip to test settings on and then once you get them the way you want it go back and do the full clip with your new found settings.

As far as getting the video and audio to seperate like that I don't know. Were there any places that you deviated from the guide? Maybe try another DVD and see if you get the same results from that one. Good luck.

03-10-07, 11:08 AM	#8 (permalink)
Tyborg Aximsite Rookie Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 35 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Wow it seems as though some higher power just doesn't want you ripping DVDs. No, Fairuse has never encoded my audio and video seperate. I don't even know what setting you could have picked that would do that. I just ran through and encoded a short clip and didn't even see where I could choose a setting to do that. There should be a Fairuse.log.txt file in the same directory as your finished .avi. That might have some clues about if it ran into an error. Mine spits out the .avi file and thats it. In order to get widescreen a little more friendly for my axim I crop the ends slightly. The window that comes up after it indexes chains has an frame from the video on it. To the left of the window there is a cropping region. As you change the values here it will show you on the displayed frame how much you are cropping. Since DVD resolution is usually 720x480 and my axim is 640x480 I crop off 40 from each side so that the resolution width will now be 640 wide. Then I crop the black bars of the top and the bottom. Of course with the wide screen this means you are losing picture and the actual resolution ends up being around 640x304. The more of the picture you drop from the right and left the less of the black bars you will see on the top and bottom when you view it on your axim. You don't want to do to much or it will be harder to see what is going on though. Just play with it and find what works for you. You don't want to force the 4:3 resolution to completely get rid of the black bars because this will just stretch the clip and things will look distorted. For experimenting before you convert the whole project since it takes so long just choose a shorter chain. In step 4 of the Fairuse guide FU usually finds the full length movie chain and you just press next. Instead choose a shorter preview or trailer chain that is only a couple minutes long. This will give you an idea of what your clip will turnout like. Make sure in the AR(aspect ratio) column you pick one that is the same as the main clip. So with a widescreen 16/9 movie make sure you don't pick a 4/3 chain or you won't be able to check and see how your cropping looks, because you won't have anything to crop its the same AR as the axim. Now converting this smaller chain will give you a quicker clip to test settings on and then once you get them the way you want it go back and do the full clip with your new found settings. As far as getting the video and audio to seperate like that I don't know. Were there any places that you deviated from the guide? Maybe try another DVD and see if you get the same results from that one. Good luck. Last edited by Tyborg; 03-10-07 at 05:36 PM.