Creating a DVD2AVI Project
Step 1
Launch DVD2AVI and load your VOB files.
If you load the first one, all the rest will load automaitcally. Now there's a VOB file that should called VTS_0X_0.VOB depending on how you ripped the movie. The X could be any number because for each movie it will be different, but you don't wan't to load a VOB file with the last digit being zero. This is the one you don't want to load because its the DVD menu screen and we don't want to encode that part.
Step 2
Now we want to preview the movie to find out what type of video it is. Before you start make sure you set the field operation to none under the video tab. Then press F5 to preview the movie. You'll want to take not of two things here: Aspect Ratio and Frame Type. You'll need to know this later when you encode in TMPG.
Let the movie play for a bit and watch the statistics window. If the Video Type is around 95% and it displays FILM, then set the field operation to forced film under that video tab. If anything lower, or if the film type is NTSC you'll have to encode the movie at 29.97 fps. I will explain later how you do this in TMPG. Also go to the color space submenu and select YUV 4:2:2.
If the frame rate shows 25 fps you have a PAL movie. Preview the movie first and see if the movie plays back ok without any glitches. If you see any glitches, set the field operation to swap - field. If that didn't work, change it to none and see what happens. If neither works, leave it as it is.
Step 3
Now we have to demux the AC-3 audio. So go to the audio tab and select the track number you want to demux. You want to demux the maid audio track but to be sure of which track number it is, we can use IfoEdit to figure this out. So start the IfoEdit program and load the IFO file.
It will now display some information about the movie. As you can see in the above picture, it shows that Audio 1 is the English AC-3 audio track. So in this case, when you're selecting the audio track number, you would select track 1 to demux. If you want another language, simply select the track number for that language.
Now close IfoEdit and go back to DVD2AVI. Under the audio tab you want to select the appropriate track number. Then set the channel format to Dolby Digital and go to the Dolby Digital submenu and select demux.
Step 4
Now all we have to do is save the project. So from the file tab, go to save project and save it.