PVR-350 S-Video out & ripped DVD's

[videogeek]

I was looking for some help on playing ripped DVD's with Sage through the S-Video output of the PVR-350 and found lot's of posts but no fast solution - I ended up doing it the following way:

Step 1: I rip the DVD's with SmartRipper to my hard drive. I set SmartRipper to rip the movie to one big file.

Step 2: I then import that file into Womble MPEG Video Wizard and select Export. I only change the AC-3 audio to MPEG Layer II and hit Start. Only the audio is re-encoded.

The entire process is very fast and the resulting file is of excellent quality and plays just fine through the hardware decoder of the PVR-350

If a DVD has no copy protection I wont even use SmartRipper. I import into Womble direct from the DVD and proceed with Step 2.

Hope this helps someone

[kny3twalker]

well thats one way
you donot need to convert the audio though
if you just use the sound cards audio output you can use the AC3 audio (surround sound)
converting to mpegaudio gets stereo only
you mayhave to sync he audio using sage's audio delay feature but you would not need to use the 350's audio even for TV after that
justthe initial setup with take time atfer that just rip
add .vob to import library list and import the .vob