• Converting from dvd

• Converting from INF file

• Converting from vob/mpg file

• Set Input Settings

• Set Output Settings

Converting from DVD

1. Open Cucusoft DVD to iPOD Converter.
2. Insert DVD to DVD-ROM
3. Click "Open DVD" button on the skin or choose "meun->file->open dvd root".
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   • After click open dvd button,a windows dialog box will pop up to let your choose dvd root's directory.
     Titles will be showed in Title list window.You can move to the output name column,click mouse right button to change output filename
4. set the Basic Input setting  Audio track, Subtitle
5. set the Basic Output setting output format,output folder, crop mode
6. Click the "convert" button.

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Converting from Inf file

1. Open Cucusoft DVD to iPOD Converter.
2. Insert DVD to DVD-ROM
3. Choose "meun->file->open an inf file",You can also select an IFO file in your DVD movie
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   • After click "open inf" a windows dialog box will pop up to let your choose dvd inf file.(in dvd root->video_ts folder)
     Titles will be showed in Title list window.You can move to the output name column,click mouse right button to change output filename
4. set the Basic Input setting  Audio track, Subtitle
5. Set the Basic Output setting output format,output folder, crop mode
6. Click the "convert" button.

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Converting from Vob,Mpeg file

1. Open Cucusoft DVD to iPOD Converter.
2. Insert DVD to DVD-ROM
3. Choose "meun->file->open vob",You can select Vob files from DVD or Harddisk folder
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   Tip

   • After click open vob ,a windows dialog box will pop up to let your choose dvd vob or mpeg file (in dvd root->video_ts folder)
     vob files will be showed in Title list window..You can move to the output name column,click mouse right button to change output filename
4. set the Basic Input setting  Audio track, Subtitle
5. Set the Basic Output setting output format,output folder, crop mode
6. Click the "convert" button.

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Input setting

Tip

• By using default setting, you can quickly accomplish many common tasks. Normally, please do not change the input setting.

Various types of Input settings are available in Cucusoft DVD to iPOD Converter. The following table provides an overview of the tasks you can complete using settings.

Function	Description
Index	Select the desired program index (PGC). Most movies are stored in index 0. Default is : 0
Angel	Select the desired camera angle. Most movies are stored in angle 1. Default is : 1
DeMacroVision:	Remove macro vision protection from the movie. Default is : Yes
Key Search: ¡¡	Mode for CSS key search (the mode 0 works fine in 99% of cases). 0 - Search a key one time when starting 1 - Search a new key at each VOB-ID 2 - Search a new key at each CELL-ID 3 - Search a new key at each VOB/CELL-ID combination 4 - Disabled Default is : 0
Dolby Surround:	Enable Dolby Surround downmix. Allow to preserve better 5.1 FX in stereo mode Default is: Enabled
Audio 48KHz to 44.1 KHz:	48KHz downsampling mode. 0 : Normal mode (fastest) 1 : High quality (slower) 2 : Export AC3 Export the source AC3 to a file, you can afterward select the output file by clicking on the Select AC3 Output button. 3 : 44.1KHz (no conversion) Select this when you don't want to make sound conversion when you have a 44.1KHz source stream. 4 : 48.0KHz (no conversion) Same purpose as choice 3, when the input frequency is not specified (A3,LPCM) it is usually 48KHz Default is : 0
Volume: ¡¡	Gain of the audio output. No normalization is performed. A value of 1 can't generate distortion (cracking) but the output sound may be very low. The default gives a good volume for most DVDs. Make few clip of the movie where you know the volume is high and adjust this value in order to get a good volume. You can also use the sound normalizer to find an optimum volume. Default is : 3
Subtitle Offset:	Vertical offset in pixel of the subtitle. This values is automatically adjusted if the subtitle goes out of the screen Default is : 0
Original color: ¡¡	Preserve original color from the IFO file. Uncheck it if your subtitle looks too much bold Default is : Yes
Overlap:	Go backward of specified amount of time when output volume size has been reached. (This has no effect in custom chapter splitting) i.e. Overlap=10 if the volume end at 1:10:25 next volume will start at 1:10:15. Default is : 0 sec
Audio Video Synchronization:	Re-synchronize video and audio periodically. (not always necessary) Default is : No
Luminance filter:	Allow to adjust light of source. The Y plane is the luminance plane (in YUV format) Apply Gain*Y + Offset on the Y plane. Gain is 8.8 fixed point value. ( 0 = 0.0 ; 128 = 1.0 ; 256 = 2.0 ) Default is : Not enabled, Gain: 128 , Offset: 0
Output frame rate	Frame rate of the output video file. 25 (PAL) or 23.97,29.97 (NTSC). Warning: this value is not automatically set, if you choose a different frame rate from the input, a pull down will be performed. Avoid conversion between NTSC and PAL. Default is : 29.97
Detect 24Fps:	Detect automatically 24Hz progressive NTSC. Default is : Yes
Force 24Fps:	Force input to be a 24Hz progressive NTSC. This flag works only if detect 24fps is checked. (Use it if you think that the 24Hz detection doesn't work). Default is : No
Save your DVD drive:	Create a temporary buffer to avoid the drive to be switched on/off too much. If you use a RAM buffer you may disable virtual memory to get more speed. The file will be write in your Windows temporary directory (TMP environment variable). Default is : Size: 10MB, Location: RAM
Deinterlace Filter:	Use this when your image is interlaced (when 1 line / 2 is shifted) Warning: if you set odd or even field you cannot be sure that it is the good field, Just make a clip of 10 images to see if you're right. Interpolate mode interpolate the even field (you lose a bit quality for SVCD but it always works) Default is : None

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Output setting

Tip

• By using default setting, you can quickly accomplish many common tasks. Normally, please do not change the output setting.

Various types of Output settings are available in Cucusoft DVD to iPOD Converter. The following table provides an overview of the tasks you can complete using settings.

Parameter	Description
Video Bitrate:	Video bitrate of the output MPEG file. For VCD the video bit rate must be between 650 and 1150 Kbits. For SVCD the video bit rate must be lower than 2600 Kbits (2376 recommended). Default is : 1150
Audio Bitrate:	Audio bitrate of the output MPEG file. For VCD the audio bit rate must be 224 Kbits. Default is : 224
Motion Search:	Compression speed optimization . You may get noise around motions Good : best quality (slow) Normal : normal quality Bad : Bad quality (fast) Default is : Good
Calculation mode:	CPU calculation mode. 0 : MMX (works only on Intel MMX processors) 1 : 3DNow (for AMD user) 2 : SSE2 for IntelP4 processor 3 : Normal (slow) don't perform MMX calculation Default is : Auto detected
DCT/iDCT:	DCT and iDCT routines. 0 : MMX for MMX processor 1 : SSE2 for IntelP4 processor 2 : FPU (highest quality) Default is : Auto detected
Multi Pass:	Allow the audio and video to be read in 2 pass. You can use it if you encode with TMPGEnc and do a 2Pass VBR. UNCHECK this if you do CBR or one pass VBR. Please read readme_1st for more details. Default is : No
Mux Rate:	Increase the multiplexing rate by Mux_Rate% . Use this to avoid underflow. Just increase it but the output file will grow up a little. Default is : VCD = 1.4, SVCD = 5.6
VBV buffer size:	Size of the VBV buffer 20 recommended for VCD, 112 for SCVD. Default is : 20
Export:	Video format passed to the premiere plugin (compatible with the Video Server) and to the AVI codec. Only RGB and YUY2 are supported for AVI YUY2 is in fact a 4:2:2 YUV format (very good for DivX encoding) The internal MPEG encoder works only with 4:2:0 this setting is ignored Default is : RGB24
Pulldown 3:2:	Convert 23.976Hz to 29.97Hz (NTSC Only). Default is : None
Resolution:	Capture resolution in pixel. PAL: 352 x 288, NTSC:352 x 240 Default is : 352 x 288
Video Resize:	Video resizing filter. Nearest neighbor : Get the nearest pixel. (no filtering) BiLinear : very accurate Slow BiLinear MMX: very accurate Fast BiCubic : very accurate bicubic filter very slow SSE BiCubic : SSE implementation of accurate bicubic filter Works on PIII or K7 or higher Pseudo BiCubic : not accurate very fast Bilinear uses 2*2 nearest points to smooth the picture BiCubic uses 4*4 nearest points to smooth the picture TAP filters are 2Pass filters,they give best quality but are slower.
Max frames:	Maximum number of frames to encode. Default is : 10000
Ignore Overwrite message:	Don't check if the output file already exists and always overwrite. Default is : No
Rip Entire Movie:	Don't check if the output file already exists and always overwrite. Default is : No

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