DVD to mpeg

[Viper]

is there any easy to capture a clip off a DVD disc and convert it mpeg with out spending loads a money ?

[FourWheelDrift]

You will have some mail (soon)

[meeja]

www.clonead.co.uk

[Viper]

thanks, I've captured the clip and its saved as a .VOB file, but when I try to open the file in Virtualdub I get a error, in the release notes it says .VOB files are not supported, any ideas ?

[FourWheelDrift]

It's the old YHM thing.

I've sent you a copy of VirtualDUB that supports MPEG2 / VOB files.

(sorry there are a lot of different versions of VirtualDUB around)

[Viper]

cheers

[Viper]

I've captured the clip(s) but know want to reduce/shrink the file down for hosting on a website, it should only be a couple of minutes long. Made an .avi file but its huge and to big to use in the present form, any help please ?

[FourWheelDrift]

did you get my email?

(I've copied it in here)

What you need to do is convert it to Windows WMV format, it can compress an AVI to a higher degree.

You can do this using Windows Media Encoder you can download it from here
www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/default.asp

You can set the size of output (which changes the bit rate playback)

Or if you have Windows XP you can do the same by loading it into Movie Maker, but you'll have more flexability in output size.

You should be able to get it down to about 20mb with good playback.


Edited to add, it's what I'm doing at the moment, hence on here waiting for it to finish

>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Monday 27th October 22:43

[trooper1212]

FourWheelDrift said:

Edited to add, it's what I'm doing at the moment, hence on here waiting for it to finish

I hope your not using the Indeo codec, I'm not sure which app uses it, but I've noticed quite a few vids getting posted encoded with Indeo recently.
For such a poorly developed and unsupported codec it's getting too frequent to be chance. I can only assume it's a Microsoft thing as it's no good for non-Windows users...

[Viper]

thanks again, hopefully that will be my last post on the subject ! (my ISP, Tiscali has been playing up all weekend and is still not fixed )

[FourWheelDrift]

trooper1212 said:

FourWheelDrift said: Edited to add, it's what I'm doing at the moment, hence on here waiting for it to finish I hope your not using the Indeo codec, I'm not sure which app uses it, but I've noticed quite a few vids getting posted encoded with Indeo recently. For such a poorly developed and unsupported codec it's getting too frequent to be chance. I can only assume it's a Microsoft thing as it's no good for non-Windows users...

I never touch the Indeo codec for MPEG compression (I always use DivX).

[trooper1212]

FourWheelDrift said:

I never touch the Indeo codec for MPEG compression (I always use DivX).

Good man!... err... Keep it up!