Vitrual dub mod question

[intelkiller]

Ok I just recently got a dvd brunner (NEC 1300a) and have been reading the how to guides on certain topic. What I want to do is to convert an xvid file into mpeg 2 to play on my PS2. All the guides that I have read say to seperate the audio from the movie and convert the audio seperate. First question is can someone explain to me why you need to do this. Also I would like to know if I could just use vdub mod to do this.

[Tommyknocker]

You separate the audio from the video to keep it in synch when you author it DVD. Select File-->Save wave to save the wave.

[intelkiller]

So can I use vdub mod to do it all for me? Or di I still need to seperate the audio from the movie?

[Tommyknocker]

You still need to separate the audio. You just need Virtual Dub to separate it, or Gold Wave. the choice is yours.

[Gazorgan]

AVI2WAV will do it also.

[intelkiller]

will vdubmod convert the video to mpeg 2 or will I need another progam?

[Tommyknocker]

You will another program. Virtual Dub will frameseerve it to another program, like TMPGEnc, but you will only need to encode it once when you do this.

[LSchafroth]

You separate the audio from the video to keep it in synch when you author it DVD. Select File-->Save wave to save the wave.

I've always been confused by this one. EVERY SVCD or VCD I've done with seperated Audio and Video has sync issues. When I leave them combined it works every time.

LS

[Tommyknocker]

You do if you have synch problems. If it causes synch problems for you, then by all means avoid it like the plague.

[intelkiller]

I heard on another forum that win 98se will not reconize a 4 gig file. Can this be done on 98 se or am I just deluting myself?

[intelkiller]

does anyone know if I can convert an xvid file to mpeg on a win 98se system or do I need to upgrade to xp?

[Tommyknocker]

Have you tried? I see no reason why not.

[intelkiller]

I have tried for about 7 hours last night and got random invalid page fault errors.