MeGUI/Guides/Basic Guide

This guide was written as a basic guide on ripping a DVD into a single computer video file via the free program MeGUI. The aim of this guide is to be a complete walkthrough of the basic concepts for ripping a DVD, and is aimed at everyone from the complete newbie to intermediate users.

There is an Italian (Italiano) version of this guide.

It covers:
 * Setting up the required programs,
 * Ripping the DVD, which involves:
 * Ripping the data off the DVD Disc
 * Demuxing the audio streams and creating a d2v index.
 * Encoding the audio,
 * Encoding the video, which involves:
 * Creating an avs script,
 * Calculating the required bitrate,
 * Encoding the video.
 * Muxing together the two streams with chapters to produce the final file.

It does not cover:
 * Using any of the automated features of MeGUI for video encoding. This guide is intended to show people how to use MeGUI the 'manual' way.
 * Using alternate DVD rippers. DVD Decrypter cannot rip all DVDs, if it fails on ripping your disc or you wish to use a different ripper, then feel free. A few recommended rippers are DVD Fab Decrypter or RipIt4Me. It should be reasonably straight forward to work out the instructions yourself.
 * Multiple audio or video tracks.
 * Subtitles.
 * 5.1 audio (if you want to do this, I would recommend muxing the original ac3 file and not doing any encoding).

Basic Guide