Fairuse Tutorial For Easy Video Encoding

[stevenator65]

You can find the tutorial here (http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showthread.php?p=1035192#post1035192).
Steve

[Nurhisham Hussein]

Nice one, Steve!

A couple of points though:

1. Indexing chains is just a fancy name the program gives for ripping a copy of the DVD onto your hard drive.

2. On a personal note I usually select a bitrate/compression rate for my rips rather than a standard size, just to get a consistent quality across all my rips. Anal, I know :lol:

[stevenator65]

Thanks for your comments hishamh. I'm still kind of new with it and designed the tutorial w/newbees in mind. When I first started ripping movies the only tutorials were overly complicated and were written by people who were too technical. I wrote this for the non-technical person who's just starting out. However, as people get better at it they'll want to know what they're doing, so your comments are very much appreciated!
Steve

[nategesner]

I've tried about every free program out there (AutoGK, Pocket Divx Encoder, etc) and Fairuse Wizard beats them all. The best part is that it does the entire job; I don't require a separate DVD ripper or anything else. I also like that it allows for a non-technical person to quickly set up for a rip while a "geek" can dig deeper and customize the settings more to his liking.

I just burned Mystery Men last night. Took about 20-25 minutes to build the chain and then conversion took about another hour (although I didn't stand by with a stop watch). Results: 378 MB for a 640x480 movie with 96kbps MP3 sound. I watched it on my Axim X50v and it shows no pixelation or chops, even during action scenes! Pretty sweet.

Thanks for the tutorial. This one is HIGHLY recommended.