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06-16-03, 08:51 AM

It's actually quite easy if you want DVDx to make a portrait view movie for Pocket PC. If you want it rotated for fullscreen, you're back to using VirtualDub. Anyway, here's how:

1) Open a movie (duh). Either use the Open DVD Root button, or if you've already ripped it to hdd, use Open IFO and select the .ifo file for that movie.

* Please remember that there is a Help button on each of the following dialogs, which will explain each option.

* I'm only touching on the 'important' settings. There are others you can play with too; use the help button for explanation of the other options.

2) The Input Settings dialog should appear automatically; if not, click the button. DVDx is pretty good at figuring out which index and angle to use automatically, so you shouldn't have to fool with it at all. Same with the audio track, unless you specifically want a non-standard track to be used. Select the desired framerate; I would suggest sticking with NTSC. Under 'Save your DVD drive' you can select how much cache to use, either RAM or hdd, to save continuously using your dvd-rom during the ripping/re-encoding process.

3) Output Settings is where we get to select our a/v codecs, etc. AVI (DivX, YUV...) should already be selected, as well as the Lame MP3 codec. Click Audio Lame to select bitrate, etc. Then select the DivX 5.0x codec if it isn't already selected. You'll notice that DVDx does support 2-pass encoding, but does not require it. Fill in your settings for Pass 1 (check 'enable 2nd' to get to the Pass 2 settings).

Now under the 'Export Settings' column we set the output screen size, zoom, and resize filter. You'll note that there is no 'resize calculator' so you will need another application to give you the exact screen size if you don't know what it should be already. Again, DVDx will only output portrait view video, so for PocketMVP if you want to keep the skin, you maximum width will 236. If you want the full 240 width, the skin will disappear. Select an appropriate Bicubic resize filter. For max frames, 10000 is probably already set there, this will rip ~ 6:57 minutes of the DVD to let you see how your settings will look. Once you get everything just the way you want it, click the 'Whole' button to select every frame. For 'Volume don't exceed' select infinite, since we are storing anything we're doing directly to hdd and we don't need to worry about fitting it onto a VCD, etc.

4) Select Destination

5) Encode

That's it!

06-16-03, 08:51 AM	#3 (permalink)
Talyn Guest Posts: n/a	It's actually quite easy if you want DVDx to make a portrait view movie for Pocket PC. If you want it rotated for fullscreen, you're back to using VirtualDub. Anyway, here's how: 1) Open a movie (duh). Either use the Open DVD Root button, or if you've already ripped it to hdd, use Open IFO and select the .ifo file for that movie. * Please remember that there is a Help button on each of the following dialogs, which will explain each option. * I'm only touching on the 'important' settings. There are others you can play with too; use the help button for explanation of the other options. 2) The Input Settings dialog should appear automatically; if not, click the button. DVDx is pretty good at figuring out which index and angle to use automatically, so you shouldn't have to fool with it at all. Same with the audio track, unless you specifically want a non-standard track to be used. Select the desired framerate; I would suggest sticking with NTSC. Under 'Save your DVD drive' you can select how much cache to use, either RAM or hdd, to save continuously using your dvd-rom during the ripping/re-encoding process. 3) Output Settings is where we get to select our a/v codecs, etc. AVI (DivX, YUV...) should already be selected, as well as the Lame MP3 codec. Click Audio Lame to select bitrate, etc. Then select the DivX 5.0x codec if it isn't already selected. You'll notice that DVDx does support 2-pass encoding, but does not require it. Fill in your settings for Pass 1 (check 'enable 2nd' to get to the Pass 2 settings). Now under the 'Export Settings' column we set the output screen size, zoom, and resize filter. You'll note that there is no 'resize calculator' so you will need another application to give you the exact screen size if you don't know what it should be already. Again, DVDx will only output portrait view video, so for PocketMVP if you want to keep the skin, you maximum width will 236. If you want the full 240 width, the skin will disappear. Select an appropriate Bicubic resize filter. For max frames, 10000 is probably already set there, this will rip ~ 6:57 minutes of the DVD to let you see how your settings will look. Once you get everything just the way you want it, click the 'Whole' button to select every frame. For 'Volume don't exceed' select infinite, since we are storing anything we're doing directly to hdd and we don't need to worry about fitting it onto a VCD, etc. 4) Select Destination 5) Encode That's it!