Best Quality Video Spanning 2 CDs

hi and welcome to the forum, unfortunately, as so often in live, there is no simple 'best'. best is, whatever works best for you, and only you can decide on that! anyway, if you want to test other programs i would suggest AutoGK, DVX and especially GordianKnot (in the order of complexity). all three of them can be found around here and are completely free. DVX requires you to have the .NET Framework installed though (iirc). here's a couple of Xvid guides: cheers steVe

Which program, from your experience produces the best quality results? From what I hear, Vidomi produces decent quality video but doesn't give enough control and the quality isn't as high as possible. Is this true? All of the guides under the XVID section say "+: High quality" but I'm not sure which one produces the highest quality.

in addition i have to warn you: AutoGK comes with some kind of ad serving software. you can remove it without hurting the performance of the software though...

Hi- You can still give the credits lower quality in the current XviDs by creating a new Zone at the start frame of the end credits, and then giving it a lower weight or a higher quant. As for AutoGK, one way to find the start frame for the end credits is to make a Movie.d2v project file in DGIndex, open it in Gordian Knot, and scroll to where the end credits begin. If you're NTSC, you want to make the project file with No ForceFILM (29.97fps).

Hi- Part of the answer is easy. Rip both parts of the movie to the hard drive into separate folders, and then if, for example, the last Vob from part one is VTS_01_6.VOB, you renumber the vobs from part 2 beginning with VTS_01_7.VOB, and move them into the first folder. The second part of the answer is harder, and it's been so long since I did that movie that I forget what I did. You're going to have audio asynch if you just join them. The end of part 1 has some black frames with no audio to go with it. You just join part 2 to part 1, and all of part 2 is off by a second or 2 (I forget just how much, maybe more). Check Part 1 in DVD Decrypter, and either the last chapter or the last cell should be of the length of the black part with no audio. So uncheck that last chapter/cell, and with luck it should work out. Please don't blame me if it doesn't. Maybe someone else has done the movie more recently and remembers exactly what has to be done.