Short VOB2AVI howto

The conversion to MPEG-4 takes about 10 hours (PII 500) for a 2 hrs movie.
Personally, I like MPEG2AVI for encoding best, because it is the fasted encoder. For something more convienient use flask encoder.

"To err is human - to blame it on someone else  is even more human. To really foul things up requires a computer."

More extended guides:

http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/support/mpeg4mp3.html
http://altern.org/mpeg/an/frames.htm
http://www.dvdrick.de5.de/

tools needed:

DeCSS 1.2b /DODSRipper
MPEG2AVI 0.016B35
Gui for MPEG2AVI
AC3dec 0.813
VirtualDub 1.3

site to stop by:

Oleg's site

optional:

FlaskMPEG
AVI Plug-in
DivX ;-) Codec + Trailers

Fast How-to

1- Use a CSS descambler to copy your DVD to your HD making 1 or 2 big files.

2- convert the big VOB file using MPEG2AVI.
    Use the Gui  for more convenience.

   important: choose -r2 settings for best speed/quality ( default -r1 is buggy!! )
   -r0 is very time consuming on minimal improvement
   bitrate is very important:
   for 1 CD, set the bitrate to 900 for 1h30, 700 for 2h of movie
   for nice quality choose a bitrate of approx. 1500 - this should fit onto 2 CDs

   If you want to avoid artifacts on fast movements,
   encode to a smaller resolution (512x400 or 480x368) and set a high bitrate (~1500-2000)

3- use ac3dec for extraction of wav and encode to 48.000 Hz PCM wav file

4- Use VirtualDub to
   multiplex together the video and the directly MP3 compressed WAV file.
   Select your AVI video file, in Audio -> WAV audio select your WAV file
   Video -> Frame Rate -> Check 'change so video and Audio duration mach'
   Video -> Direct Stream Copy
   Audio -> Conversion -> you could convert your sound to a 44100 Hz if you done this
   don't forget to check High Quality
   Audio -> Interleaving -> 500 ms of audio before video start
                         -> Interleave audio every 500 frames
   Audio -> Compression -> Choose MP3 at > 96Kbps
   Audio -> Full Processing Mode
   Save the AVI

   and relax...