COpy about 5 minutes of a DVD in another file - AVI or MPG

[thiagarr]

Hi,

I am fairly new to the video copy / conversion, etc.

I want to copy about 5 minutes of a DVD movie into a smaller file to copy some scene of significance for my family. I want to mail this to a couple of family members as an attachement in an email, hence the smaller file requirement.

Is there any way we can do this? I do not plan to do this often and a shareware / freeware program would be ideal.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

TR

[fritzi93]

Any number of ways to do that with freeware.

You could open the DVD with DVDShrink, reauthor, set desired start/end frames and save. From there I'd use VirtualDubMPEG2 to convert to a more compressed format, but you say you're a novice. Takes a while to get the hang of that... Hmmm, I believe Windows Movie Maker can do the job for you. You have XP, you already have it. Have a look and check out the help files or some guides over there <--. I haven't used WMM any more than just to have a look at it, but I believe you'd need to use Vob2MPEG to convert the .vob ( in the VIDEO_TS subfolder of the parent folder DVDShrink created) to an MPEG file that WMM can open. Perhaps someone else can verify?

Good luck and welcome to an interesting hobby.

Just double-checked, there are options for movie size and quality in WMM, and ability to save for use as email attachment.

[thiagarr]

Thank you Fritzi93. Let me try the WMM and also DVDShrink options and post an update soon.

Thank you.

TR