DivX to VCD/DVD??

[Matteo693]

I have a DivX (mpeg 4) CD of a Russian movie "Kin-Dza-Dza". I want to convert it to a format compatible with my DVD player (VCD, DVD etc). I imagine I have to rip it first to my hard drive?? How do I do this? At the moment I can play it on my computer, but with no sound?? Once its on my hard drive I think I can convert it with TMPGEnc & VirtualDub etc. But firstly how do I rip it into a file acceptable for TMPGEnc?? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

[Conquest10]

since it is divx, just copy the file to your drive by dragging it over. load the file into gspot to see what codec you need for the audio. then you should be able to convert it using any of the guides on here.

[Matteo693]

Thanks, Conquest, for the quick reply. I drag the file over to my hard drive, but it's an avi file with extension ".vid". This doesn't seem to be supported with TMPGEnc or VDub!? It's a 699Mb 25fps 480x352 (4:3) COL1 video, with 96kps 44.1lHz Voxware MetaSound audio!! Phew! TMPGEnc tells me "unsupported file". Virtual Dub sez "can't locate compressor for format 'COL1" (unknown)". Any suggestions, pal??

[Matteo693]

Success! I found the solution elsewhere on this site (should've checked more carefully I guess!?)... In case anybody else out there comes across this problem, this is what I did:
1) Open TMPGEnc
2) Click Options/Environmental Setting/VFAPI Plug-In
3) Right-click Direct Show Multimedia File Reader
4) Increase priority to 2
...Now I can open my ".vid" movie file in TMPGEnc and convert to VCD/SVCD/DVD whatever! (Didn't even have to fiddle with the audio, luckily). TMPGEnc rocks! :P