Help needed on decoding DVDs.

[Massimo]

Dear All,

After having tried everything that I could, here I am humbly asking for assistance.

I currently have two manners to go from original material to DVDs, either digitizing analogue material, manipulating, authoring and burning to DVD, or via my Sony DVD-Recorder.

In either case there are situations where I would like to take an existing DVD that I created and convert it back to either no sound AVI and WAV or even just a normal AVI.

I have tried everything that I could find but am unable to do it satisfactorily. Latest attempt was by using IMTool DVD-Ripper to get the VOBs on my hard drive but I am then unable to convert these back to AVI.

Any kind soul who could help?

Thanks in advance and best regards.

Massimo.

[Tommyknocker]

Try Virtual Dub mod. Load the VOBs into it, select the codec, and Save As AVI... to your new AVI file name.

[Massimo]

Thanks Tommy,

Would I also be able to change resolution and/or frame rate at the same time if I needed to (i.e. PAL to NTSC)?

Can this generate separate video (mute video in the AVI file), and audio (WAV), files?

Thanks in advance and best regards.

Massimo.

[Tommyknocker]

You can change the resolution with the Resize filter. Select File=>Save Wav to get your wave file. Frame rate can be changed by selecting Video=>Frame Rate.

[Massimo]

Brilliant.

Thank you, will try this weekend.

Massimo.