Basic Question re AC3

[rgardias]

I have ripped a whole buch of movies to my hard drive. No problem.

I would now like to compress them and retain the AC3 audio stream. Is there any software that does this all in ONE esay step?

[Enchanter]

DVD2AVI will allow you to extract the AC3 sound file. GordianKnot will allow you to create DivX-compressed videos with which you can join the AC3 file to.

[rgardias]

Thanks for your response. I really appreciate it.

I installed GordianKnot and can't tell what I'm supposed to do. I think I better take this one step at a time.

Is the next step to convert the VOB files to WAV? If it is what is the best program to do this with?

[Mac Sidewinder]

This is the full guide to gnot using divx 5. If you are using divx 3, they have it here also.

http://www.doom9.org/divx5.htm

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[rgardias]

Once again thanks for taking the time to reply.

I printed and went through the guide step by step and I find it far to complicated. I obviously find this stuff very difficult.

Is there commercial software that I can pay for that automates most of this process? I would be more than willing to pay for it.

[Coma]

its not that hard if you go step by step just take your time, trust me if i can do it anyone can.....................and after your intial setup its much easier than any other program out there, it also saves you a whole lot of time usually about an hour faster than all the flask type encoders............................

[Mac Sidewinder]

As Coma says - its not that hard. Just take it slow and follow the steps one at a time. If you have any questions you know where to ask them. You will be making great looking rips in no time.

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