DVD to Storm Walkthrough with Pictures

[Jedi_Blackberry]

what the heck is pathways......it restarted my rip and now I don't have options in the angle box.

This SUCKS!!!!!!!

[Jedi_Blackberry]

Reading/Writing Error conrol....what is this crap???

Why the **** can't it be flipping select and click to do this crap!!!

[bobbyc]

Just loaded a 2nd movie, cannot get it to play. is anyone having problems with multiple movies

[limjelo]

Worked flawlessly for me. Thanks! Tried hand brake by itself prior to your post and couldn't get it to work. I can now rip and load a dvd on my phone in about an hour.

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[motifman22]

Originally Posted by Jedi_Blackberry

what the heck is pathways......it restarted my rip and now I don't have options in the angle box.

This SUCKS!!!!!!!

Where/what screen/which program are you getting these errors? Need more details...

[OWG]

Originally Posted by bshieldskc

How many DVD's are you able to put on your storm?

It will be a function of the available memory. Bigger storeage card = more movies.

[NYR9AG]

This program worked perfect for me--I did SHOOTER, came out awesome--only thing is the whole movie has a commentary--is there any way to get this out? do I have to do it over in another way? The director talks during the whole movie on how he filmed each part--definitely dont want to listen to that-lol.

[motifman22]

Originally Posted by NYR9AG

This program worked perfect for me--I did SHOOTER, came out awesome--only thing is the whole movie has a commentary--is there any way to get this out? do I have to do it over in another way? The director talks during the whole movie on how he filmed each part--definitely dont want to listen to that-lol.

The only way I've found to get the movie to convert without commentary every time, is pay CLOSE attention to the preview screen in the bottom left corner in DVDFab. You may have to fiddle around with checking different audio options before it plays like you want it. MAKE SURE the preview screen is playing it exactly how you want it to play on your Storm and you should be fine.

The whole process takes too long to get a final movie with commentary. Preview it first and it will save A LOT of time...

[CFD323]

Well I experimented with setting different video bit rates while encoding Empire Strikes Back....

- at 500 the quality is pretty good and I'd be pretty content with it if that was the highest setting that was allowed in Handbrake. (file size of 517MB)

- at 1000 the quality was amazing! (file size of 972MB)

- at 1500, which is what is defaulted to when I added the movie as the source file, the quality was also excellent! I went back and forth between 1000 and 1500 and I couldn't really tell any difference. Maybe different movies would give me a little more noticeable difference, but then maybe it wouldn't. (file size of 1.3GB)


So for my use I would recommend setting video bit rate to 1000. It's still a HUGE file but not as big as setting it to 1500. Plus the quality is absolutely stunning!

Oh and BTW, I converted these files to mp4's and they all worked just fine on my phone so not sure why others are having problems.



Hey Motifman, if I go to encode a widescreen movie, do I need to change any settings in Handbrake, or does it do it automatically?

Thanks again to Matt for posting this info as I wouldn't have known how to do it.

[mattsh33]

Thanks everyone for letting me know about the directors commentary being a problem. I updated my walk through and hopefully this will clear up any problems. I noticed that when a DVD has a directors commentary it has 2 forms AC-3/2 in the audio box. 1 of these is the regular movie, and 1 is the movie with the commentary. Please preview first before proceeding past the audio part.

It seems that the usually the first AC-3/2 on the list is the regular movie without commentary.

[genestorm]

thanks so much mattsh33...i followed your instructions and everything came out perfect...just wondering though is there a way to set the resolution so that the movie doesn't come out widescreen on the phone which essentially cuts the screen view in half from top to bottom?

[WVUNut45]

mattsh33 besides being a Buckeye fan, your awesome. Thanks for this post.

I have a question... when looking that the other files in the list (from DVDDecrytper), there appears to be other movie segments. How do we know we're not losing segements or "titles" or "chapters" of the movie by selecting the one with the longest segement?

Thanks.

[mattsh33]

Originally Posted by WVUNut45

mattsh33 besides being a Buckeye fan, your awesome. Thanks for this post.

I have a question... when looking that the other files in the list (from DVDDecrytper), there appears to be other movie segments. How do we know we're not losing segements or "titles" or "chapters" of the movie by selecting the one with the longest segement?

Thanks.

Normally those other "segments" you are speaking of are usually little extra videos. Like bloopers...commentaries...trailers...music videos. All the "extras" that DVD's advertise.

[genestorm]

hey mattsh33 is there anyway to make the movie utilize the whole screen instead of widescreen format or is that specific to the dvd??

[Jedi_Blackberry]

I used magic DVD Ripper and the one mentioned in this walkthrough.

I had to get the new beta version of MDR but both worked perfect. MDR may be better because the new beta version rips the new releases ie Street Kings.