I ripped a dvd to 1 vob file and demuxed the video and audio w/Smart ripper. I used AC3 tool to convert the ac3 to wav. Using Tmpenc, I tried to convert to mpg. Everything worked fine for a third of the movie. After that, the video just remained still, while the sound played out throught the rest of the movie. Should this method of have worked, or is it imperative that I convert the vob to avi first? Thanks for any suggestions and I apologize if this had been asked before.
What are you trying to do? Make a smaller DVD? SVCD? VCD? If you're making a VCD/SVCD, you can use the proggy DVD2AVI which outputs a project file. With that project file, you load that into TMPGEnc and you're good to go. If you're making a smaller DVD, just transcode.
Yeah I was trying to make a vcd. I thought it would save time if i didn't have to convert to avi, plus this method of loading the demuxed video stream and wav file into tmpgenc was working for the most part. When I played the mpeg back, the sound and video were fine and about half way through the movie, the video just stopped while the audio kept going. Thanks for the advice, I will just keep using DVD2AVI.
With DVD2AVI, you don't actually have to make an avi file. Just choose "save project" and use the resulting project file to load into TMPGEnc.
When useing DVD2AVI there are a Few Settings you should select so you get the Best Results..The Main thing is if you are Working with a NTSC DVD then you should set in DVD2AVI the "Video" to "Field Operations" to "Forced film" , and under "Video" to "YUV<->RGB" set to "TV Scale", and when you encode the Project File in Tmpgenc make sure you select the "NTSC Film" template... You will achieve Better quality this way because you will be Encodeing useing Progressive Frames instead of Interlaced Frames which will produce better quality at a Lower Bitrate....
