Looking for a fast DVD to MPEG extraction program

[funkydude74]

Hi all. I've recently bought a Pioneer DVR-230 DVD recorder which I'm recording stuff to a rewriteable disc and extracting clips off the recording to MPEG using DVD-AVI and TMPGEnc. However the problem is TMPGEnc does the job too slow, it's taking me about 30 minutes to extract a 3 minute clip which I think is too long and will take me ages to do a whole bunch of them. The DVD recorder records rewriteables as VROs instead of VOBs and the audio is PCM format so I wonder if any of that that might have anything to do with why TMPGEnc takes so long to re-encode the video as MPEG?

Anyhow I was wondering if there's any program that will do the job faster?

Troy

[funkydude74]

Just been running a 3 minute clip through TMPGEnc after DVD-AVI and it took 50 minutes which is even worse!!! There's got to be a quicker way!!!

Troy

[lordsmurf]

http://www.digitalfaq.com/dvdguides/edit/dvdrecorder/recorderedit.htm

[pchan]

MPEG Video Wizard may be the best option. It has streaming capability and it's fast.

[tigerman8u]

If it's a dvd you could
1 copy the dvd to your hard drive
2 open the dvd in an authoring program such as Tmpgenc dvd Author
3 cut out the parts you don't want
4 save what you want
this will cause no re-incoding and no lost of quality

[gshelley61]

DVD-Video compliant files (VOB's) are already MPEG2, and when they are single language files with no subtitles (like what your DVD recorder produces), you can just join and rename the VOB files, saving to a single file with the MPG extension.

You can do this easily with Simple File Joiner (free):
http://www.peretek.com/sfj.php

Your Pioneer recorder should be able to record in Video rather than VR format, you just have to format the DVD-RW for Video mode instead of VR mode. You can also try re-naming the VRO files with the MPG extension... that may also work as long as it is in a standard DVD MPEG2 frame size.

[funkydude74]

Thanks for the help guys. Out of all the suggestions I found that TMPGEnc DVD Author does the job nicely, I wish I could accurately make the cuts by frame not by second but all the same I'm glad it does the job properly.

Cheers
Troy

[mattso]

I would suggest a small expenditure of $66 and buy VideoRedoPlus off the Australian distributers here.

[funkydude74]

Actually correction, I think MPEG Video Wizard does the best job as I can cut to the exact frame. I was having trouble with it earlier as I got no audio on playback on Windows Media Player but when trying it again but playing it in Ulead Video Studio 9 I got audio with video and outputting it to a rewriteable DVD and testing it, it works perfectly fine !So MPEG Video Wizard rocks !!!

Cheers
Troy