STEP 2: The Usage of the DVD Rebuilder

Before you start the application itself, you need to copy the REBUILDER.RBK in the DVD-RB's directory. After that Rebuilder will ask the email address you used with PayPal. Once you've entered the email, the Rebuilder will start.

First select the folder where the ripped DVD is located as Current Source Path. Rebuilder will read the info of your DVD and shows it at the right. There you can see all the audio and subtitle streams your DVD contains.

Next thing to do is to set up the setup ;) Select Options -> Setup. The setup dialog is quite clear, you just need to specify the paths to your encoders and a decoder. You must use the DGDecode.dll found in DVD-RB's directory as the decoder. You can also decide which audio and subtitle streams you want to be removed. Don't forget to save your settings once you've selected the streams to be removed. There's also few special settings you might want to enable. Run Encoder(s) Minimized is worth ticking and if you don't need the DTS tracks, tick Remove All DTS Audio also.

Once you have configured the setup as you liked, press OK to go back to the main window. You can also choose which audio or subtitle streams to remove by double clicking the ones in the Main Window.

There's few more things to do before starting the encoding process. You need to select the modes to be used when Rebuilder stars encoding. So look into the Mode section.

As you can see, there's tons of options to choose.

• First you need to select the encoder you want to use. If you do have CCE encoder, use that but if you want a very good free alternative, choose HC Mode.

• Second, you need to decide how do you want your backup to be. If you want to make a full backup of your DVD, choose the Full Backup (Menus, Movie, Extras).

• Then comes the ISO-file creation part. DVD-RB will always automatically author the DVD for you. But in Pro-version you can also make a full ISO image of your backup. Then all you need to do is to burn the ISO file. So enable the ISO support. Also, take a look at the ISO Output Settings.

  

  • There you can specify the name of the ISO file and the Label. You can also setup Rebuilder to delete all temp file after successful ISO image creation. RB can automatically burn the ISO file with DVD Decypter. If you enable the automatic burning feature, don't forget to put a blank DVD-R disc in your burner! ;)

• Enable One Click Mode to automate the whole backup process. There's also an option to shut down the computer after the encoding process is finished.

• DVD-RB can encode extras with smaller bitrate to save it for the main movie. There's five different options to steal space from extras. If you don't care about extras, you can choose 50 percent to be stolen. Half-D1 and Half Space for Extras means that RB will use ½ of the normal DVD resolution and half space compared to original situation, to encode the extras. So if you enable both Half-D1 and Half Space for Extras and Steal Space from Extras: 50%, you'll end up extras with ¼ of original size and half of the resolution.

• You should also enable the Output directory if you want your final files to be in different folder than the temp files.

Ok, there's one more thing to be checked. Look at the Options:

First look at the AVS Options. There are these two options ConvertToYUY2() and AudioDub(BlankClip()) which should be enable only when using CCE. If you're going to use HC encoder you can safely disable these ones.

There are also few handy advanced features under the AVS Options menu.

• With Filter Editor you can manually add some filter to the AviSynth script. If you haven't ever written an AVS script, you should leave this option alone.

• If you know your DVD to be interlaced and you're going to watch it on progressive display (e.g. PC monitor or video projector), you need to deinterlace the DVD. Use Deinterlace with DECOMB option to make the job for you.

• With the Pro-version you can select which kind of iDCT you want to use when decoding DVD for the encoder. If you don't know how changing iDCT affects your video, don't change it ;)

• Also, if you can tell that you're source DVD is definitely progressive, you can use Disable "Interlaced" option. Some DVD have incorrect interlaced flags, though the DVD itself is progressive. This can cause some problems because if DVD is flagged incorrectly the Rebuilder will treat the DVD as interlaced. If you doubt that your DVD is flagged incorrectly, you should enable this option.

• You can also resize you're entire DVD to Half D1 resolution by using the Resize to Half D1 option, if you want to.

• If you have a widescreen TV, you might want to enable Convert from 4:3 LB to 16:9 option. You can either apply the conversion to all VTS's all just to ones you specify.

Once you've configured the AVS options, look at the HC Options. For the best quality, you should use the BEST Speed/Quality Selection. This slows down the encoding a bit, but it's worth it. You can also might want to try the One Pass CQ VBR (w/analysis). It'll use only one encoding pass when encoding the video, so it's pretty fast. The only con of this options is that you can't have precise file size using One Pass CQ, though file size prediction algorithm is very accurate.

Now we're done with the setups. The one last thing to do is to start the encoding. Press the button to start the backup process!

Backup process will take approximately four hours to complete, depending on your CPU. Once finished, you'll end up with an ISO file in your output folder.