Which do you preferr? FAIRuse or DVDdecrypter + AGKnots (as in the sticky thread)

ttriple · 06-21-05, 10:26 AM

For those of you who have used both of these methods to convert DVDs to your PPC, which method do you preferr and why? Thanks in advance for your replies.

silver99 · 06-21-05, 10:28 AM

FairUse all the way. I can't say I've actually tried DVD Decryptor but I think the quality of video and sound are absolutely outstanding coming from FairUse. Combine that with the ease of use and the ability to shrink your file down to a custom size and it's a winner in my books.

And it's FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gjw · 06-21-05, 10:32 AM

If those are my only choices then FairUse.

AGK took over 8 hours for 1 movie.
Other movies NEVER completed (before I gave up).
That might not be tyical but it's also not unique.
Others have complained similarly.

My favorite so far is PocketDVD Studio (on sale cheap over at eBay).
It's WAY faster than FairUse, it has similar output, it is more precise with it's final file size estimations, and it doesn't need huge amounts of disk space.
It ain't free though.

Of the free all-in-one apps FairUse is prolly the best I've used.

ironhelix · 06-21-05, 10:56 AM

i've tried the dvd decripter over the weekend for my first dvd rip.

worked out ok, pretty fast too. in about an hour i had a burned copy.

iused dvdshrink to burned the copy.

davrol · 06-21-05, 11:17 AM

I use Smart Ripper and PocketDivxEncoder (both free), purely because I started with these and see no need to change. They work fine for me and both are very easy to use.

I set PocketDivxEncoder to Video Quality 36 (548 kbps) and Audio Quality to 6 (96 kbps). I also set it to VGA mode 640 x 480. The resolution on my X50v is quite excellent - as good as I could possibly wish.

gjw · 06-21-05, 11:21 AM

I like the ease of PocketDivxEncoder but I could never get it to make a an AVI where the audio/video were in sync with one another.
Nothing horribly obvious but after 45min - 1 hour it would be off by almost a second.
Some suggested manually entering the FPS but that didn't work.
It helped.... but it wasn't a complete fix.

davrol · 06-21-05, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by gjw

I like the ease of PocketDivxEncoder but I could never get it to make a an AVI where the audio/video were in sync with one another.
Nothing horribly obvious but after 45min - 1 hour it would be off by almost a second.
Some suggested manually entering the FPS but that didn't work.
It helped.... but it wasn't a complete fix.

I encode at 15 frames per second and I have never had any trace of video/audio lack of sync. Neither is there any flicker as one might expect at this low FPS.

CRXGSR · 06-21-05, 06:58 PM

I tried both fairuse and dvddecrypter for the same DVD. First I tried DVDdecrypter, and had terrible, TERRIBLE Audio/video sync! Then tried fairuse, and it turned out beautiful!

FlyACL · 06-21-05, 07:06 PM

FairUse all the way!

ironhelix · 06-22-05, 08:42 AM

looks like im going to have to try out this fairuse

ttriple · 06-22-05, 09:06 AM

I tried pocket-DVD Studio and FAIRUse yesterday. Pocket-DVD Studio (I used the trial software) is mucccchhh faster and also much easier to use. FairUse is a lil' more complicated but the big main thing that I dont like is the amount of time it took to complete the process. It has to rip from the DVD then encode the image first..then the sound..then re-encoding it again (2 pass method???) But both yielded excellent and very similar result. So if you want to spend some money, go with Pocket-DVD Studio for its speed and ease of use. If you dont want to spend money then go with FAIRUse but you will have to be patienced! reallllly patience...

Y2Dre · 06-23-05, 10:54 PM

I've only used FairUse...but it's here to stay. The look on people's faces when I show them The Matrix (full movie @ 400MB) seals the deal for me!!!

The lengh of time it takes doesn't bother me...what's the rush?

I start it @ night and it's done when I wake up. 'Nuff said.