[MS MPEG4v3 Codec Package]
[aMPEG2AVIGUI Release 1.45 (includes all tools)]

MPEG2AVI is a package for a) those who know what they are doing since a lot of knowledge about frame-sizes, rates etc. is needed and b) those who want to get the movie done in no time. (A friend of mine will soon get an Athlon ~900 and from calculation this machine should be able to do conversion in real-time). Follow this guide and it should to the trick:

• Download the MPEG4 Codec and run the executable.
  (install all codecs that are offered)
  
• Download the aMPEG2AVI Package and unpack it into a directory of your choice.
  
• Make sure you already decrypted all the files to your harddisk
  
  
• Fire up FlaskMPEGEncoder
  (this can help you determining the right cropping values)
  
• Choose your VOBfile with File->Open
  
• Choose any audio stream in the selector
  (doesn't matter now since we only want to get some crop values)
  
• Choose menu Options->Global Project Options
  
• Select tab Video
  
• Enter appropriate framesize into Frame Size and select appropriate Frames per Second !
  
  PAL: 720 x 576 @ 25 fps
  NTSC: 720 x 480 @ 23.976 fps
  
  
• Check the box MMX iDCT if you have an MMX processor
  
• Select tab Post Processing
  
• Check the box No letterboxing
  
• Check the box Keep aspect ratio
  
• Push the button Show Output Pad
  
  Reduce Height until lower black bar is gone
  Increase Top Offset until upper black bar is gone
  
  Note:
  With newer FlaskMPEG Version you may use drag'n'drop on the frame around the picture to get the right values !
  
  If you can't get the image to correct size at first just do the same procedure again..Reduce Heigt -> Increase Offset until you only see the movie-picture in the window
  
  Push the button Hide
  
  
• Now keep the values you find in height and width in your head or on a piece of paper !!!
  
  
• Fire up the aMPEG2AVI-GUI
  
  NOTE:
  After first installation it may be neccessary to set all the paths to the binaries which lie in the directory $aMPEG2AVIPATH\bin
  
  To get into the configuration dialog press F11
  
  
• Press F6 which will open the File-List Editor
  
• Add all the files of your DVD, order them and hit Save and Set
  
  
• In the part of the GUI called Profile Details enter the FlaskMPEG Values
  
  Crop @
  Width x Height
  
  
• Set Downsize X to 720
  Set Downsize Y to the same as height
  
• Click button Start Preview
  
  
• It is almost sure that the picture won't fill the screen so increase Downsize Y
  
• Again click button Start Preview
  
• Do the above two steps until the picture looks okay
  
  
• Go to the GUI at Advanced Options
  
• Select the appropriate framerate (fps)
  
  PAL: -f2 [25]
  NTSC: -f0 [23.976]
  
  
• Set output format to -o8 [AVI-YV12-4:2:0]
  (the output format setting is cause for aMPEG2AVI being faster than the older FlaskMPEG releases)
  
  
• Set reference quality to -r12 [16-bit MMX ChiDCT]
  
  
• In [File Locations] set the destination path in OUTPUT
  
  
• Check the box HQ bicubic filtering
• Check the box Enable MPEG2AVI PX3 Mode
• Check the box Decode Only AC3/MP2 Stream
  
  
• Select your desired languageright to the checkbox
  
  NOTE:
  0x80 is mostly English
  0x81 is mostly your local Language
  
  
• For a final preview hit Start Preview
  
• Now hit Start Encoding
  
• The AVI Compression Dialogue will appear
  
• Choose DivX Codec 4.01 Codec and hit Settings.
  
• Use the Quality slider and move it to 100 (Crispness)
  
• Set Keyframes every 4 seconds
  
• Set bitrate to the bitrate calculated by my Bitrate Calculator.
  
• Hit Okay twice and conversion will start.
  

NOTE:
As you see this procedure is a bit more complicated. But believe me, you will get used to it and the results are amazing ! As I stated earlier a movie reaches ~12 fps compression speed on my old Ahtlon 500. Not too shabby compared with ~6 fps in FlaskMPEG !