Chris Wilson Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 My repalcement DVD arrived today and it works fine on PC and TV DVD drives. I now want to try and do the following: I have a commercially made, but none protected DVD of some in car race footage. I want to select a few short extracts and save them in .mpeg format. Is there a good site explaining how to do this, and what software / hardware do I need. I have Nero 6 and 2 Pioneer DVD drives, one a reader and one a writer / reader. I also have demo copy of Alcohol 120% Is this going to be something i'd be better leaving to a boffin? Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 Hoorah! So it WAS the disc. You need to do a couple of things. First we need to get the DVD onto the hard drive. DVDDecrypter is good for this - there's tutorials and guides here for this and a few others - http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/dvddec.htm (Incidently that site has loads of other usefull info too) Then you need to get from the .vob files to mpg so you can edit them in some video editing software... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 I've done DVD to DivX conversions before, but I'm buggered if I can remember how I did it. Think the utils are still on my PC. This looks interesting - http://www.allformp3.com/dvd-copy-software/vob-to-avi.htm Can't vouch for it though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 This claims to do it also. - http://www.tomdownload.com/dvd_software/imtoo_dvd_ripper.htm Free trials of both products available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 Found this too - Well VOB files are Basicly just Mpeg2 files so if you can use the Mpeg2 format for your presentations then you don"t have to convert them at all just cut out the scenes you want and asve them with a Mpeg extention... There are a Few Vob/Mpeg2 cutters that are freeware like "Chopper XP" or "Mpeg2Cut" ..You can find them both if you do a Google search.... You can also use DVD2AVI to convert the files to AVI or better yet you can use "Virtual-Dub-Mpeg2" which you can download here: Virtual-Dub-Mpeg2 http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/stable/ Also download and install this: AC3ACM Decompressor http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/AC3ACM/AC3ACM.zip That makes it to Virtual-Dub can read the audio in Vob files.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 Chopper XP http://www.digital-miner.com/chopperxp.html "Chopper XP is a tool that lets you extract a part of any DVD easily. It is a Vob cutting program with a video display and a great interface. You just need to scroll to a location and select mark in and out points. The program also lets you set any priority of extraction and displays the estimated time left for extraction" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 Ok - so the plan is to use ChopperXP to select the bits you need, then use TMPGEnc to convert these to MPG if you want... Enough babbling from me...some of the above will get you there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 The tool I used to use was DVDx as it is pretty much self contained... Chris if you want a run down on how to do it, just buzz me http://www.labdv.com/dvdx/ Gav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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