Trouble following the DVD2AVI DVD conversion guide v 1.1

[jw9800]

I am new to DVD ripping and having the following problem.
I,m trying to rip a DVD to MPG on my hard drive so I can play it back from the drive. I am using "Sefy's DVD2AVI DVD conversion guide v 1.1". Everything is great up to the TMPGEnc. The guide says to "use the D2V file as the Video input". When I try to open tge D2V file, it does not show up. After selecting "all files" and selecting the D2V file I get a "cannot open or unsupported function". I am using Windows 2000. Any idea's?

[Zbot]

Yea, man I know excalty what you mean, I have Win2k as well and it does the same thing sometimes, what you need to do is to downgrade to a ealier version of TMPGEnc like the old 12a or something. Good luck

[bishopx3368]

hmmmmmmmm I use tmpgenc ver h and still have version a and I don't have those problems. I'm using win 2k service pack 2. Your doing something wrong. Either selecting the file wrong or you didn't save the d2v right.

[tara]

I'm having a size proble with the guide the resulting
file size is 721 megI alos am using w2kpro SP2 and tmpgenc h

[aldus4]

Did you download and instal the VFAPI Plugin for TMPGEnc? I think this is the cause that the d2v file is unsupported.

[Zbot]

No I it is supported but that is still a very good idea, when TMPGEnc wasnt opeaning my asf files I converted them to avi with virtual dub

[ccngo]

I have the same problem when using DVD2AVI. The guide says you should get 2 files, a
.d2v file and a .wav file but I only get the .d2v file. TMPGEnc also does not read the .d2v file. I have version f. Is that the problem?

[Zbot]

For the audio try using Flaskmpeg to extract the audio for the d2v downgrading to a ealier version or typing in the filename. If all that fails try the newest version it MIGHT have to bug fix. And still that doesnt work get the VFAPICodec and convert the d2v file to an avi and try in TMPGEnc

[jw9800]

Well, so far I tried Windows 98, same problem and TMPGEnc 1.2a, same problem. ANyone else have any idea's?

[jw9800]

Ok, here is what I did. I redid the DVD2AVI part in Windows 98. That worked for some reason, so I'm off and running. I have to wait 6 hours to see what I got. I chose the DVD NTSC template because I want full resz. I did notice it put the DVD menu's the the start of the mpg, I guess I'll have to cut them out.

[WMike]

I'm another new ripper.

Just had the same problem last night. I transfered files from one computer to another and tried to encode and got the error message. I had to re-run DVD2AVI to get the new computer to read the d2v file.

Good luck
Mike

[poopyhead]

yeppers,

1. in the folder where the dvd2avi proggie is located, u need to put a file called DVD2AVI.vfp. when u run dvd2avi, goto "help" and make sure u check "VFAPI Plug-in."

2. also, the .d2v project points to the EXACT location of the vobs guys...i can't stress that enuff...if you look at the filesize of the .d2v file, u'll c that it can't possibily contain the video source...that's cuz it tells tempgenc where the actual video source is located (i.e. the vobs)...so DON'T DELETE or MOVE the vobs at all after u've made your .d2v file. so if you wanna encode a movie on 1 comp with the vobs on another comp, u gotta make the .d2v project file on the comp which u wanna encode on, not the one with the vobs on.

3. if dvd2avi doesn't produce a .wav file after u made the .d2v project file...it's cuz u selected a silent track. pick another track and redo your project. MAKE SURE U LISTEN TO THE .WAV FILE B4 U START ENCODING. make sure the track u picked isn't in french or something...

[WMike]

Right on poppyhead.

I even went into the project file and changed the drive/path designation.......no workie. From now on, if I need to move a rip, it moves BEFORE the conversion!

Mike

[jw9800]

Poppyhead, I think you hit the nail on the head. the problem turned out to be I was using Winzip and just running the DVD2AVI file and it couldn't see the other file. I should have unzipped the whole thing to a folder. It is working now on Windows 2000.



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