My Tempgenc will not open DVD2AVI files

[Kevlin]

Everywhere I read that you just load the DVD2AVI file into Tempgenc and go. But my ttempgenc will not recognize the file format DVD2AVI produce.

Do I need any plug ins or is there an obvious thing I have missed?

[jimmalenko]

Try this ...

Go to Option > Environmental Setting > VFAPI Plug-in, right-click on DVD2AVI Project File Reader and go to Higher Priority. Repeat until it's at the top of the list. Then try to open your d2v file.



The other thing to remember is that you must keep the VOB files intact - you can't just delete them after the D2V file has been produced, as it references them.

[Kevlin]

thanks for the quick reply.

With your picture I realized that tempgenc doesnt come with the DVD2AVI project file reader installed. Where can I get ahold of this?

I thought it would be easy just taking a scene from a DVD but I find all the trouble very frustrating. All I really want to do is rip scenes from some of my DVDs for a quiz I'm making.

[jimmalenko]

There should be a file called DVD2AVI.vfp which I think you need to put in your TMPGEnc directory.

[celtic_druid]

It shouldn't need to go in the TMPGEnc directory. Always worked fine for me in the dvd2avi/dgindex dir.

In DGIndex/DVD2AVI under help, make sure that VFAPI is ticked.

[Baldrick]

try dgindex instead of the old dvd2avi.

[ione]

hi, i'm just curious. why is it that when we use DVD2AVI to perform frameserving, we need to save it as a project (d2v) instead of "Save AVI" option. i experimented on saving the file as AVI and encoded it using TMPGenc; and just the same, TMPGenc recognized it (and even the VCD output was of excellent quality). what's the difference? just asking.

and while i am at it, it seems that DVD2AVI decodes the VOB file (sorry is that how you call the process?) by separating audio and video. since i would like to resync some subtitles (using Subtitle Workshop) before encoding the file, there was no way for me to hear out the audio while previewing the video.lol got any suggestion?

thanks, would really appreciate your input. and sorry for asking a lot of questions.

[jimmalenko]

hi, i'm just curious. why is it that when we use DVD2AVI to perform frameserving, we need to save it as a project (d2v) instead of "Save AVI" option. i experimented on saving the file as AVI and encoded it using TMPGenc; and just the same, TMPGenc recognized it (and even the VCD output was of excellent quality). what's the difference? just asking.

The "Save AVI" option re-encodes the file(s) as an AVI using a codec of your choice. The "Save Project" option creates a "pointer file" that just references the VOB(s). That's actually what frameserving is - creating pointer files so that you don't need to re-encode to an intermediate file if moving between a few different programs

I'm certain you'll find that it will save a d2v file much, much quicker than it saves the AVI file because it doesn't have to re-encode.

[ione]

oh, that answers my question. thanks for explaining by the way, i found your guide section pretty helpful.

[ione]

sorry i have a follow-up

i just remembered working on a d2v file the previous time by following a guide. i was trying to add subtitles to the video so i created a pseudo-avi file (using VFAPI reader). when the TMPGEnc encode was done, the output was all wrong. the video was quite fuzzy and choppy. why did that happen?

since i couldn't correct the problem, i tried "save AVI" option. i just wonder if the pointer file produces better quality (for those who successfully achieved encoding) as opposed to this option i am choosing (re-encoding: VOB -->AVI-->MPEG). or is it just of same quality except the latter is time-consuming? because if it's just about additional work, then i don't mind putting in some extra time if for sure the videos would come out right

last question... is it even possible to re-encode on DVD2AVI without separating the audio and video? since i need to play them both at the same time to synch some subtitles. need your help. thanks!