All you need to know....: August 2006

Friday, August 25, 2006

How To Rip a DVD!!!

Well i have come across many dvd's which has a huge capacities of more than 1.5 gigs(usually for english movies),copying them to the computer as a whole is quite useless work and it takes up a lot of your computer resource.So i have putforth a small tutorial which helps to rip a dvd i.e converting it to xvid or an divx format.but you need to get the correct tools for doing it.

The first tool you need is the DVD DECRYPTER.You can get it HERE
The second tool you need is the auto gordian knot (autogk).it is a freeware and
you can find the softwareHERE

DVD decrypter allows you to rip the raw DVD video and audio data off of your disk drive, decrypt the CSS protection, and finally remove any other protection schemes, such as Macrovision. AutoGK is a package of codecs and a GUI interface that will take the raw DVD data through an AV processing pipeline to produce a single windows video file. Lets move onto the tutorial.....

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step1:RIP:

Put in a DVD and launch DVD Decrypter. Choose IFO (Information File) mode:

Now make sure you’ve selected a destination for your files:

Now you need to find which program chain to rip (PGC). Pick the one that’s the longest(by default the longest will be selected), or in the case of a TV dvd, the episode you want to rip:

Everything’s set up. Just click the green arrow and wait about twenty minutes, after which you will have a set of files which look like this:

VTS_01_0.IFO
VTS_01_PGC_07 - Stream Information.txt
VTS_01_PGC_07_1.VOB

The whole ripping process shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes.

2. Step 2: ENCODE

Launch AutoGK and select the first .vob that you just ripped as an input file, and set an output file name:

Now you need to select audio (choose the first one) and subtitles, if any:

If you’re ripping a TV, set the preferred size to 350MB, if you’re ripping a movie, choose either 700MB or 1400MB, depending on your preference:

Finally, click on advanced settings and choose MP3 VBR 128kbs: (here you can choose divx or xvid format)

Then click “add job” and “start.” After all this, you’ll have a log that looks like the following: (note the log changes from movie to movie,so dont worry if you dont get same one)

[8/24/2006 9:07:27 AM] AutoGK 2.26
[8/24/2006 9:07:27 AM] OS: WinXP (5.1.2600).2
[8/24/2006 9:07:27 AM] Job started.
[8/24/2006 9:07:27 AM] Input file: J:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.IFO
[8/24/2006 9:07:27 AM] Output file: J:\Output.avi
[8/24/2006 9:07:27 AM] Output codec: XviD
[8/24/2006 9:07:27 AM] Audio 1: Unknown language AC3 2ch
[8/24/2006 9:07:27 AM] Subtitles: none
[8/24/2006 9:07:27 AM] Format: .AVI
[8/24/2006 9:07:27 AM] Target size: 350Mb
[8/24/2006 9:07:27 AM] Custom audio settings: VBR MP3 with average bitrate: 128Kbps
[8/24/2006 9:07:27 AM] Started encoding.
[8/24/2006 9:07:27 AM] Demuxing and indexing.
[8/24/2006 9:08:30 AM] Processing file: J:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_PGC_04_1.VOB
[8/24/2006 9:08:30 AM] Source resolution: 720×480
[8/24/2006 9:08:30 AM] Found NTSC source.
[8/24/2006 9:08:30 AM] Source aspect ratio: 4:3
[8/24/2006 9:08:30 AM] Analyzing source.
[8/24/2006 10:28:40 AM] Source is considered to be hybrid (mostly NTSC).
[8/24/2006 10:28:40 AM] Looking for optimal hybrid thresholds.
[8/24/2006 10:28:45 AM] Found threshold of: 1.38
[8/24/2006 10:28:45 AM] Output will contain 38690 frames
[8/24/2006 10:28:45 AM] Decoding audio.
[8/24/2006 10:29:16 AM] Normalizing audio.
[8/24/2006 10:29:28 AM] Encoding audio.
[8/24/2006 10:31:57 AM] Audio1 size: 17,708,400 bytes (16.89 Mb)
[8/24/2006 10:31:57 AM] Overhead: 1,547,648 bytes (1.48 Mb)
[8/24/2006 10:31:57 AM] Video size: 347,745,552 bytes (331.64 Mb)
[8/24/2006 10:31:57 AM] Running compressibility test.
[8/24/2006 10:35:01 AM] Duration was: 3 minutes 4 seconds
[8/24/2006 10:35:01 AM] Speed was: 12.61 fps.
[8/24/2006 10:35:01 AM] Compressibility percentage is: 55.96
[8/24/2006 10:35:01 AM] Chosen resolution is: 560×416 ( AR: 1.35 )
[8/24/2006 10:35:01 AM] Predicted comptest value is: 73.79%
[8/24/2006 10:35:01 AM] Running first pass.
[8/24/2006 11:02:56 AM] Duration was: 27 minutes 55 seconds
[8/24/2006 11:02:56 AM] Speed was: 23.10 fps.
[8/24/2006 11:02:56 AM] Expected quality of first pass size: 76.04%
[8/24/2006 11:02:56 AM] Running second pass.
[8/24/2006 11:42:42 AM] Duration was: 39 minutes 46 seconds
[8/24/2006 11:42:43 AM] Speed was: 16.22 fps.
[8/24/2006 11:42:43 AM] Job finished. Total time: 2 hours 35 minutes 15 seconds
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Step 3: WATCH

You’re done. Delete all the non .avi files and enjoy the fruits of your ripping.
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That all required for the ripping process.though the process may take some time ,this is the most perfect way to rip,and the ripped coppy is more compressed with great clarity.you can follow the same process to any movie such as english,tamil....so hope you find the tutorial useful and stop wasting time and start ripping those movies of the DVD's!!!

Taggies: DVD
RIP
RIPPING

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Megaupload problem completely solved!!!

Well i myself had been very annoyed with the restrictions putforth by megaupload.com,espicially that allocation of slots to each of the countries,which are always full and we usually get the error "all the slots allotted for your country are full,please try again later".so i decided to work on it and tumbled accross on a solution which solves this slot reservation problem completely and gives us access to download from Megaupload whenever we want,so here we go.....

Byepass Megaupload Restrictions for MozillaFirefox:
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First go to firefox addons (this link will redirect you on Htts so may be you will have to open a port)

Click Install Now to install addon.

Restart FireFox. Tool-->User Agent Switcher--->Options--->Options

Click User Agents--->Add

Type this:

+ Description: MEGAUPLOAD

+ User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Alexa Toolbar)

Click OK twice to finish adding User Agent.

From now, before downloading any file on megaupload just go Tools--> User Agent Switcher--->MEGAUPLOAD.

after the download finishes you can return to orginal settings by selecting Tools--> User Agent Switcher--->Default.
thats it now you can download from Megaupload without any obstruction.it is working 100%.
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Byepass Megaupload restrictions for IE:
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First download from

Here

Thats what is in the reg file :
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REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MicrosoftWindows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0User Agent\Post Platform]"Alexa Toolbar"=""

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How does that work :
Well MegaUpload checks that the toolbar should be installed to have unlimited slot restrictions.. Since we have not installing the toolbar on the pc but faking the scenario by including it in the reg .. so the explorer will report as though it is installed...

That was a good trick .. Any way ur pc is safe since we are faking .

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Yup thats should do to fake Megaupload for now....more tips and triks coming in next post...till then Keep cheating MEGAUPLOAD and HAPPY DOWNLOADING!!!!

Taggies:Megaupload
restriction

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