Almost there...but not quite

[Devanshu]

Thanks to this board(the troubleshooting), I'm almost done copying my first dvd! I used a guide on this site to get to where I am now. First I used smartripper to copy the vob files. Then I used dvd2avi to get the wav file and the d2v file. When I go to tmpgenc for the encoding process and try to select the video source, it says that the file cannot open or is unsupported. Did I do something wrong? Please help and thanks again to anyone who replies.

[natebetween]

"...In Order for TMPGEnc to recognise D2V files, you MUST have the VFAPI and the DVD2AVI.VFP file located where the TMPGEnc.EXE file is! it will NOT work any other way!..."

Borrowed (ONCE AGAIN) from Sefy's guide:
https://www.videohelp.com/sefy/?id=ClassicalGuide.html

Good luck!

-Nate

P.S. Sounds like a lot of work to copy a DVD. Is this a DVD-9? I thought that the easiest possible way was to do it was This way

Good luck either way!

[Sefy]

The link you gave seems like a DVD to DVD, and not DVD to VCD

[natebetween]

Whoops!

I forgot which forum I was in!!

But the info on VFAPI still hold true! Just not the DVD copying method! Sorry!

Carry on! If you follow this your TMPGEnc should begin to recognize the D2V files.

Good luck!

-Nate

[Sefy]

No harm done, the information you gave is indeed correct 8)

[poopyhead]

also, i've noticed that if you have 2 versions of dvd2avi installed, there could be a problem:

when i would create a .d2v project file from one dvd2avi, and then later open up the other dvd2avi, tmpgenc will give the "unsupported file" error when trying to load up the .d2v file from the first dvd2avi. all i needed to do was to reopen the first dvd2avi, and then tmpgenc will recognize the .d2v file from it.

[Sefy]

That's why I usually send those who have a problem like that, my own copy of DVD2AVI and tell them to re-create the D2V/WAV files, that always fixes the problem

[vhelp]

I've also experienced this same dvd2avi corruption from time to time.

Somehow, something get corrupted, touched, or just looses it's momentum
and TMPG won't open those left over .d2v projects. I lots that I will leave
for weeks at a time. During that time, I may have had:

* many crashes
* changed codecs of various sorts
* reinstalled MPEG1/2 apps/codecs and things
* deleteled things
* moving files (VOBS or .d2v etc)
* etc etc

And, when I go back to them, (usually on a network) they no read inside
TMPG. And, my only way is to re-create them again in dvd2avi. They
just seem to become corrupted. I think it may have something to do w/
the way they utilize "pointers" and when you starting moving things around,
that when things can get messy in time.

But, the short answer (as ben stated above) is to just re-create the .d2v
file.

-vhelp