I'm checking out avidemux to cut sections out of my DVD video. The video is not copy protected, so I just copied the folder to my hard drive. I used ffmpeg to convert it to VOB files to mpg files (not sure if that step was really needed).

I cut out some sections and then requested that avidemux save the file under another name. I set video and audio to Copy and I set format to mpeg ps.

When I save, a popup appears showing the status and says the file is being encoded. Is the mpeg being re-encoded to mpeg? In other words, am I losing quality?

Thanks,

Steve