question on cropping

[yadadawadada]

hey guys i have a question. i bought a dvd recorder and ive been recording me playing madden so i can see what i did wrong . can any one suggest a free or in expensive program were i can record from different parts of the dvd. because i cant find one that works and is easy to use what im looking for is is like recording from 5 minute of playing to the ten minute mark because ive been searching and i cant find one. oh yeah may be you could suggest one that easy to use as well and im trying to make it so that the end product is an avi file beause i paln to put them on a dvd thanks

[guns1inger]

virtualdubmpeg2 is pretty easy to use and will let you output as avi.

mpeg2cut2 seems to be a pretty good, free mpeg2 editing tool, but only outputs the uncut portions of the stream, so you would still have to encode to avi afterwards.

[prof_unto]

Me, DGMPGDec to cut the parts of DVD then mux back to .mpg using TMPGEnc

[Renaldo]

virtualdubmpeg2 is pretty easy to use and will let you output as avi.

mpeg2cut2 seems to be a pretty good, free mpeg2 editing tool, but only outputs the uncut portions of the stream, so you would still have to encode to avi afterwards.

Hi!
I tried to convert/cut and MPEG2 file into avi with Virtualdub-MPEG2. I used direct stream copy, as I do with avi files, but I get an error notification which says that "MPEG2 files (the source video stream) uses a compression algorithm which is not compatible with avi files. Direct stream copy cannot be used with this video stream."
I'm a novice to this editing tool. Is there something else I should do?

[Baldrick]

You must use VIdeo->Full processing if you want to convert to avi. Direct stream copy is to just copy the video and it's not posssible with mpeg2 in virtualdubmpeg2, use a mpeg2 editor instead then like mpg2cut2, videoredo.