good article. just a couple of comments: 1. I don't know why but I can simply load .AVS (with crop) into the WME9, although WME9 does not show the properties correctly (unlike .AVI) but the encoding (frame by frame) worked just fine, and it seems faster than using VFAPI (fake .AVI). Anyone tried this yet? (I encoded 2 DVDs in this way) 2. For 6-channel WMA9Pro, since most movies are dialog-intensive, I personally use 192Kbps/48KHz/24Bit VBR, and the result sounds just fine. Also, if you would choose to use 384Kbps, the original 5.1 channel AC3 is also 384Kbps (6.1 channel in 448Kbps) so you might as well choose not to re-encode the audio to WMA9Pro. hope it's helpful...

I haven`t use AviSynth before, but I`ll give it a try. I`ll do some testing as soon as i get another DVD... I like VFAPI because I can read AVIs in WMP, Vegas Video, etc... and yes... it`s sloooow. About the audio, I don`t use original AC3 audio because: 1. You have to have Audio decoder installed to play it 2. I haven`t find a way to mux AC3 with WMV9 :o I still have to check issue about center channel... as soon as I get 5.1. system :D

Hi Bulma. Thanks for the guide, and yes avisynth is the present & future ;)

Re: DVD -> WMV9 Guide 

atracus, yes that would cause desync. But I am not sure that 80ms is something that can really be heard as desync... Anyway, I have updated my guide, this time with 6 WAVs, so problem solved :cool:

thinks too . ;) But i think it's important to speak about bug with wme9 . i see 2 bugs at least. With windows 2000 , impossible to use mark in file option (else wme crashes) Therefore , when i select a vob at the begining ,wme gives me a wrong input resolution : something like 544*576 instead of 720*576 . impossible to correct that. So the aspect ratio is not respected .

There are many bugs... ;) Crashing, corrupted or no sound, and lists goes on and on... Have you tried setting output resolution to 720x576? When it starts encoding, does it say 720x576 or 544*576? Anyway, you can always use DVD2AVI method... I made some test with 2 minutes clip: AviSynth vs VFAPI round 1 ;) ---------------------------- AVS VFAPI 1. pass 6:27 7:20 2. pass 7:06 7:33 total 13:33 14:53 ratio 1 1.1 This round belongs to..... AVISYNTH!!!! :devil:

I had it in my previous Guide (v1.0) ;) But, after some reported that it gives you 4.1 instead of 5.1, I decided to use BeSweet. Now, I am having problems using MultipleWAVS method, instead of encoding WAVs, it encodes from sound card input, and of course get no sound at all. Can someone help me with this??? For AC3 sound, you have to install Audio codec (not needed if you installed WinDVD), add key in registry: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\InterVideo\Common\Aud ioDec] "Audio"=dword:00000005 and then use AC3 as audio source, instead of MultChannelWavsource. Ok? PS: You can find previous version of Guide, at forum, other, Authoring/Conversion/Encoding.

It tells me a "Class not registered" error on the video source, which is an AVS.

Did you execute INSTALL.REG in AviSynth dir? Try to open AVS in Virtual dub or other program that can open AVS...