This guide should help anyone get your AccuStats and other DVD files on your computer.
Note that if the DVD is protected there is still a grey area in getting around that to get a clean DVD file on your computer. There are many programs to convert video, these are free except for one which you may not need, and the avi.NET program I found the easiest to use.
The format I use has been working for me on watching all my videos on my XBOX, computer and even Android phones and tablets. You can also easily adjust the quality settings to make smaller files for your phone if you want. Most of the standard 1-1.5 hour matches come up to be about 1GB in size for good quality.
Keep in mind that most older AccuStats videos are basically VHS tapes put on DVD and you may have DVDs you copied from your VHS tapes, so you don't need great quality conversion options as making an HD file type from a VHS just gives you a huge file with VHS quality video.
The programs you want to have are avi.NET http://www.videohelp.com/tools/avi.NET, DVD Shrink 3.2 http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/dvd_shrink.html and possibly AnyDVD by Slysoft. avi.NET contains several programs in the download package, install them all.
1. Copy your DVD files in their original format to PC
On many of the pool videos, it's as easy as opening up the DVD and copying whatever files you see over to a directory. If the disk happens to be protected, and you OWN it, I use a few programs, DVD Shrink 3.2 is free but is a bit older, it does however does a great job at decrypting many disks, especially older ones. The other is a paid one but worth it I think, AnyDVD, it comes with a free trial as well which can be long enough to get all your videos on the computer during that trial time if you work on it.
You'd want to make a single directory, then create sub-directories for each video. I name mine Year Tournament Player1 vs Player 2. If it's a Semi or a Final or a Player review I add in SF, F, PR to the file right after the tournament as often those are the matches you would be interested in watching and it's good to pick them out quickly. EX. 1999 DCC 9B SF Reyes vs Strickland
Keep the files shortish as you don't want to have a 50 character file name and try to view them on a small screen. So don't use Derby City Classic when DCC is just as good.
2. Convert the files
avi.NET screenshots are here http://www.videonet.webspace.virginmedia.com/g_avinet.html
You can queue up multiple disks to convert at once, just set it up and it runs overnight.
Start avi.Net, in the default input.FILE tab click on IN.
Browse to your first DVD folder you want to convert, sort by size and select the largest .VOB file that is named with a _1 at the end, it will look like VTS_01_1.VOB and it should be pretty large, most are at least 1gig but I have seen some created by a VHS to DVD burner that are smaller.
It will start to read the file and after that is completed, the video will start to play.
At that point, click on the av.OPTIONS tab. Set the bitrate mode to about 1200 for a lower quality video (VHS or if you want a small size) or about 2000 if you have a higher quality video and don't care about size.
Click on "Deinterlace Movie" and "Higher Quality". Select "Shutdown PC" if you want that to happen once the files are all done converting".
Click back to input.FILE and click ADD.
You will see the file name show up in the list. To select the next video to convert, click on IN, browse to the next file, and repeat the steps to have the video load, set the quality options and click on ADD again.
Repeat till you have a nice list of files you want to convert, keep in mind it can take an hour or more per video to process depending on how fast your computer is. Once done, click on START and the program will start the conversion.
3. Rename converted files, cleanup
Once the conversion is done, go into each of the folders, and browse inside the folder with the DVD files, you will find a new file in there that ends in .avi. Rename that file to the same as the video folder name ( 1999 DCC 9B.... blah blah ). Make sure you keep the .avi extension.
Now you have to decide if you want the video files lumped in a single folder (this is better I think) or keep them as they are now in the folders named after the video title. I keep mine in a directory called AccuStats, then divided by game type (9 Ball, One Pocket, Instructional, etc...) and all the video files are dumped in there based on the game.
Delete the original DVD folders to clean up the space if you want, make sure the .avi file is not inside those folders when you delete them, I move the file out of there, then delete the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders that contain the larger DVD files.
4. Watch your results and send me rep :thumbup:
These instructions seem longish but once you go though them a few times, it's pretty much automatic, load disk, click a few times, you get computer format videos.
Note that if the DVD is protected there is still a grey area in getting around that to get a clean DVD file on your computer. There are many programs to convert video, these are free except for one which you may not need, and the avi.NET program I found the easiest to use.
The format I use has been working for me on watching all my videos on my XBOX, computer and even Android phones and tablets. You can also easily adjust the quality settings to make smaller files for your phone if you want. Most of the standard 1-1.5 hour matches come up to be about 1GB in size for good quality.
Keep in mind that most older AccuStats videos are basically VHS tapes put on DVD and you may have DVDs you copied from your VHS tapes, so you don't need great quality conversion options as making an HD file type from a VHS just gives you a huge file with VHS quality video.
The programs you want to have are avi.NET http://www.videohelp.com/tools/avi.NET, DVD Shrink 3.2 http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/dvd_shrink.html and possibly AnyDVD by Slysoft. avi.NET contains several programs in the download package, install them all.
1. Copy your DVD files in their original format to PC
On many of the pool videos, it's as easy as opening up the DVD and copying whatever files you see over to a directory. If the disk happens to be protected, and you OWN it, I use a few programs, DVD Shrink 3.2 is free but is a bit older, it does however does a great job at decrypting many disks, especially older ones. The other is a paid one but worth it I think, AnyDVD, it comes with a free trial as well which can be long enough to get all your videos on the computer during that trial time if you work on it.
You'd want to make a single directory, then create sub-directories for each video. I name mine Year Tournament Player1 vs Player 2. If it's a Semi or a Final or a Player review I add in SF, F, PR to the file right after the tournament as often those are the matches you would be interested in watching and it's good to pick them out quickly. EX. 1999 DCC 9B SF Reyes vs Strickland
Keep the files shortish as you don't want to have a 50 character file name and try to view them on a small screen. So don't use Derby City Classic when DCC is just as good.
2. Convert the files
avi.NET screenshots are here http://www.videonet.webspace.virginmedia.com/g_avinet.html
You can queue up multiple disks to convert at once, just set it up and it runs overnight.
Start avi.Net, in the default input.FILE tab click on IN.
Browse to your first DVD folder you want to convert, sort by size and select the largest .VOB file that is named with a _1 at the end, it will look like VTS_01_1.VOB and it should be pretty large, most are at least 1gig but I have seen some created by a VHS to DVD burner that are smaller.
It will start to read the file and after that is completed, the video will start to play.
At that point, click on the av.OPTIONS tab. Set the bitrate mode to about 1200 for a lower quality video (VHS or if you want a small size) or about 2000 if you have a higher quality video and don't care about size.
Click on "Deinterlace Movie" and "Higher Quality". Select "Shutdown PC" if you want that to happen once the files are all done converting".
Click back to input.FILE and click ADD.
You will see the file name show up in the list. To select the next video to convert, click on IN, browse to the next file, and repeat the steps to have the video load, set the quality options and click on ADD again.
Repeat till you have a nice list of files you want to convert, keep in mind it can take an hour or more per video to process depending on how fast your computer is. Once done, click on START and the program will start the conversion.
3. Rename converted files, cleanup
Once the conversion is done, go into each of the folders, and browse inside the folder with the DVD files, you will find a new file in there that ends in .avi. Rename that file to the same as the video folder name ( 1999 DCC 9B.... blah blah ). Make sure you keep the .avi extension.
Now you have to decide if you want the video files lumped in a single folder (this is better I think) or keep them as they are now in the folders named after the video title. I keep mine in a directory called AccuStats, then divided by game type (9 Ball, One Pocket, Instructional, etc...) and all the video files are dumped in there based on the game.
Delete the original DVD folders to clean up the space if you want, make sure the .avi file is not inside those folders when you delete them, I move the file out of there, then delete the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders that contain the larger DVD files.
4. Watch your results and send me rep :thumbup:
These instructions seem longish but once you go though them a few times, it's pretty much automatic, load disk, click a few times, you get computer format videos.
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