DVD to AVI (only the part I want!!!)

[zephirus]

Hi!

I've been using FairUse Wizard to compress my home dvds to XviD. I use Fairuse Wizard and till now I had no problems. But now I have one. I made a long record so the dvd was record with half width resolution. When I open it in Fairuse Wizard, in the output resolution I'm unable to choose res above 336x256 This is because the video is compressed in width, I think.

So, my question is:

Is there any thing I can do to change the aspect of the dvd??
Is there a program other than FairUse Wizard that can make the conversion WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF CUTTING THE PARTS I DONT WANT??

Thanks.

[redwudz]

You could use a program like VOB2MPEG to extract out the video from the DVD as one MPEG, then put it into VirtualDub Mod and trim what you want, then encode to Xvid. VDM will also accept VOBs directly, though you would have to joint them to get the whole video. Alternately, DVD Decrypter can extract as one large VOB.

[zephirus]

Thanks.

But... the problem is that the video is shrinked horizontally

And another thing. I used virtualdubmpeg but when i try to convert the audio, it says:

"No audio decompressor could be found to decompressthe source audio format"

How can i bypass this????

[redwudz]

If it's AC3 audio, you can use AC3 ACM Decompressor. You may be able to correct the aspect in VirtualDub by using a filter, maybe Resize. It can't hurt to experiment a little.

[zephirus]

Thank you. I will try that.