You must be doing more than just selecting the iPod format. An average movie is about 700MB so that would only be about 10GB for 14 movies.
Yeah. I strongly suspect that he isn't recompressing the video files, but is just wrapping the MPEG-2 data in a MP4 container. 101/14 = 7.214 GB per movie (which is basically the size of the main track on a dual-layer DVD).
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried to do a quick test, but I could not make it work. I got everything installed, but there were errors with the extraction. I ran it anyway, but it just hangs. I'll give it another try when I have more time. I probably did something wrong. For now I just uninstalled AviSynth and removed AutoMKV.
Not sure exactly what you were trying to do, but here's how I do it...
I rip all my DVDs to my hard drive using RipIt4Me (which is a front-end to DVD Decrypter) in IFO mode. In RipIt4Me's Wizard mode this is called "Rip Movie Only". IFO mode allows you to select the actual title that you want and only rip that file. I generally rip them to a folder on my hard drive called:
C:\video\rips\<movie_title>There's a really nice animated tutorial on using RipIt4Me available here:
http://forum.digital-digest.com/showpost.php?p=422827&postcount=1You'd probably want to follow those instructions exactly, only use "Rip Movie Only" mode and don't bother with DVD Shrink at the very end (since you want then to compress it with AutoMKV instead). You could actually rip directly using AutoMKV and DVDFab but I've never done this, so I can't help there. I like RipIt4Me better because it can handle all the DVD encryption techniques they use and it's simple.
Once I have the decrypted VIDEO_TS folder inside my path I mentioned above...
I open up AutoMKV, and set the following settings:
and
(the only thing I change here is circled in Red).
To convert to iPod format, you'd want to change the Profile on the Basic Settings tab to either
PD-iPod.xml or
PD-iPOD5.5G.xml depending on what type of iPod you want to support. I use HighProfile because I don't need to support iPod and HighProfile is a bit better quality. The Disk Settings drop down gives you a bunch of presets you can choose from, or you can choose Custom and then just type in a file size in MB (which is what I usually do, 1024MB generally will make a pristine copy of a 2 hour movie).
Under the Filters choice, the default (Remove Grain) works very well. I also sometimes use the Convolution3D settings for movies and (especially) animation. I also keep the "set width resolution" to AutoCrop Only to have the max possible resolution. I think for iPod you'd need to have it resize the video -- set it to 640 or 320 and you should be good to go. The only other thing to check on is the Audio settings. You'll probably want to use the NeroAAC encoder. You might have to click on the !!! button and enable LC mode and then play with the Quality slider until it works. I'm sure you could also just ask on the AutoMKV thread for iPod related settings help, because I'm not clear on what iPod supports and what it doesn't.
Then, just click either "Start" (which will start that encode immediately) or click "Add to Queue" which will save the settings so you can set up a batch and then start them all at once. The encoding will take a
LONG time. Compressing to MPEG-4 is no easy task, even for a modern CPU. Dual-core and newer CPUs (plus lots of RAM) help to speed the process significantly. However, in the end, you can have a very nice 700MB - 1GB copy of your DVD in MP4 format that'll play just fine in MC and on your iPod.