After copying the vob from DVD to my hard disk, I try to make the VCD with Tmpeg, but the video preview never display, but I still try to encode it using VCD template.

The result, black video screen, with garbled and interrupted Audio.

BUt if I encode it to mpeg2, or SVCD it encode well although (still) there's NO Video preview in Tmpeg and I can not do trim in-out point of the movie.

What did I do wrong ? I've installed the VFP also.

Any kind of help would be reatly appreciated.

Regards, Sunar.

-- Sunar Karjadi (rekotomo@denpasar.wasantara.net.id), April 22, 2001

Answers

Sunar,

tmpeg won't handle vob files on its own, I think. I have found the folowing process works very well:

1. Install DVD2AVI. You can download this free utility.

2. Open the vob in dvd2avi and choose save project from the file menu. This will demux the AC3 audio from the vob and write it as a WAV file. It will also create a .m2v file which represents the MPEG- 2 vidio in the vob.

3. Go to tmpeg and open the .m2v file for the video and the wav file for the audo, then encode or process as normal.

I have found this a very easy way to go from vob to VCD. I deleted flask as soon as I found this to work.

Regards, Evan

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-- Evan McNally (evan.mcnally@home.com), April 22, 2001.

More details on DVD2AVI and all else to make it work can be found in www.flexion.org.

-- Mehmet Tekdemir (turk690@yahoo.com), April 24, 2001.

Can I ask a question? I tried DVD2AVI but it doesn't work well for me. My movie is using the widescreen format, but the result after DVD2AVI is 4:3 ratio. The top and bottom black bars were gone, and the picture is distorted. I am still using Flask because of this. Can anyone help?

-- Rusman E. Priyana (priyana@eudoramail.com), April 26, 2001.

Correction to topic from -- Evan McNally (evan.mcnally@home.com), April 22, 2001.

Sorry, but actually it aint a *.M2V-file, but it's the video basic no AVI nor MPG, simply video-content. - The file itself is a *.D2V-file and refers to the video content inside each separate VOB-file, so if you create the D2V file which is very quick to make and to use , never delete the original VOB, as the D2V refers to it and the soft used to extract to AVI or MPG will search in the original VOB.

- you will need also the filter plus decoder for VFAPI Reader Codec to extract the AVI if using Virtual Dub for retouching or selecting. This application is the master in it's genre.

I got a preference for AVI files, they are much smaller than MPEG files, you can create up to 2 movies of 2 hours on a simple CDR.

- YOU CANNOT USE THESE FOR CREATING VCD OR SVCD, too bad.

-- harry tech Siemens (armand.volckaert@skynet.be), November 24, 2002.