How come everything is so difficult?

[PaulC]

I've just bought a MediaMVP player.

Thinking it would be handy to have DVD's on my HD in MPG format, so that the MVP would play the films, I've been trying to rip DVD to (S)VCD

Nothing works

DVD2AVI then Tmpgenc has Vfapi problems, no matter which versions I use.

VOBEdit works in Classic Media Player, but no sound in Windows Media Player, Realplayer and MVP. And the picture quality is bad.

DVD2MPEG just doesn't work

Renaming the VOB files to MPG gives great video, but no sound

No.1 DVD Ripper looks good, I thought I would try ripping a couple of films (well the 50% it allows you) before spending the money. I've just played back the result through MVP, but it has audio sync problems, despite ripping with the Audio/Sync fixer set to on.

All I want is to be able to put a DVD in, press a button, wake up the next morning and watch the film.

Surely it must be possible?

[Baldrick]

Can't the mvp play DVDs? must it be mpg?

[PaulC]

Can't the mvp play DVDs? must it be mpg?

It will play MPG and Divx, although with Divx, it takes up most of the CPU on the machine hosting the file.

[winifreid]

It is a little unclear what you want to do. You mention several things: mpg, vcd, HD...
What do you really want? If you want DVDs on your HD, then use decrypter. But you will not be able to fit very many. If you plan on watching them on your computer at some point, you should consider using xvid with fairuse. Just pop the disk in and in the morning you will have a small, nice looking movie file.

[Baldrick]

paulc wants to watch using the http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_mediamvp.html

it doesn't seem to support dvd playback...strange....


paulc: http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/ it can play dvd vobs...

[PaulC]

it doesn't seem to support dvd playback...strange...

I s'spose that's why it was cheap

It works very well. Much better than looking at slideshows and my kite videos on the monitor.

I was just hoping I wouldn't have to get up to choose the DVD, walk over to the player, put DVD into player, sit down, get up to find DVD remote, remove DVD remote from VHS player (I've got kids) etc....

[PaulC]

I've just renamed the VOB files to mpg, and then used Combimovie to join the three VOB's together.

They play fine on the pc, but no sound on the MVP.

Now I'm trying simple mpg to mpg conversion to see if different codecs help

[Baldrick]

have you tried http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/ ?

[PaulC]

have you tried http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/ ?

Where do you find this stiff?

It sounds exactly what I'm looking for, except I may wait until the Windows system has been developed a bit more.

I think I've worked out the sound problems, just not how to fix them.

I had a go at converting the mpg2 to mpg1 in Tmpgenc, that's when I noticed that the sound is AC3, not 44khz. I'm looking for another conversion at the moment.

[PaulC]

I think I may be getting somewhere.

I've just converted the first chapter of Paycheck to VCD using DVDx

It Worked

It looks like DVDx won't convert all 3 VOB's at the same time, so I'll use Combimovie after.

If it all works, that is