Convert DVD to Xvid with no commericials

[spudz]

Hi guys. Looking for some suggestions on what the best utils are to do what I want here. I have a home DVD recorder that I have used to record some shows of the my Satellite Receiver. Basicly I want to take the DVD+RW that I used and end up with an xvid file of that tv show but with the commercials edited out. I want Xvid because I have a Philips DVP642 dvd player and it will play them fine so I can fit a lot of the shows on one dvdr.

I have used TMPGENC DVD Author which works great for loading the DVD+RW my DVD Recorder made and editing out the commercials but then it will only reauthor to another DVD which is not what I want. I tried the option to record the clip date to the HD but it always outputs a bunch of MPG's and not just want. If it was just one MPG file then I could use AutoGK but it seems to record a seperate MPG for each chapter on the original dvd+rw my dvd recorder made.

So I'm almost there but not quite.. If you guys have any suggestions on a better way to do what I want ot accomplish here it would be much appreciate it. Trying to have the least amount of steps but keep the quality as close to the original as possible in the final xvid file.

TIA

Spudz

[spudz]

So am I the only one who's looking to do this, or just the only one dumb enough to not know how to? I'm almost there, just a couple problems I'm having that I need answered..

Please help if you can guys.. Thanks.

Spudz

[Baldrick]

you can cut it in tmpgenc dvd author, output to a dvd folder. then use fairuse wizard or autogk to convert th dvd to xvid.

or use virtualdubmpeg-2, import the vobs and cut and save as xvid.

[spudz]

Thanks Baldrick. I tried fairuse wizard and it worked great. However when I tried to play the xvid it produced on my philips dvp642 it wouldn't play it. So I assume there's a setting that fairuse is using when encoding the xvid that the dvp642 doesn't support. Have to figure out what that is exactly. If you have any ideas let me know.

Also I should mention that the xvid file it produced seem to look more interlaced then the dvd did.. I can see horizontal scanlines or something in the video that I couldn't see in the mpeg2 dvd video. So not sure what is up with that. Maybe it would look fine in my TV but since I couldn't get the file to play I can't answer that yet.

TIA for any help.

Spudz