Problems with DVD2AVI

[simpledisc_bv]

I have ripped a 7 GB DVD to my harddisk. I have stripped all the junk that I don't need, like menu's and extra's. I would like to re-encode the DVD to 4,3 GB, so that it would fit on 1 DVD+R.
I tried to use DVD2AVI and TMPGEnc. However, when I try to use DVD2AVI, the program only creates a project-file *.d2v. No AC3 or WAV-file. The *.d2v cannot be read by TMPGEnc.
I have fought myself through many ripping and encoding-guides, but I can not find what I do wrong.
Can anybody tell me what I should do after creating the *.d2v-file with DVD2AVI. In the guides I'm told that DVD2AVI should create 2 files, 1 for audio and 1 for video, but on my harddisk it never happens.

Hope somebody can advise.

Jan
NL-Wageningen

[ilscuro]

Have you checked track 1 is selected under audio?
give it another go

[simpledisc_bv]

Hi Ilscuro,

Yes, I have put track 1 under audio. Just like MPEG Audio and Dolby Digital are on Demux. As described in the guide.
But unfortunately it won't work.

[ilscuro]

As a workaround you could use CLADDVD which if ime not mistaken produces d2v file and see if that one works in TMPGENC

[dc91gt]

go into the enviroment settings in tmpgenc and make sure it finds the vfp file for dv2avi.

-d

[aragorn78]

I downloaded the trial version of TMPGEncv2.59 to help with the backing up of my DVD movies. I uesd DVD2API to create a *.d2v file and an *.ac3, but TMPGE keeps telling me that the files are unsupported. I have tried many uninstalls and reinstalls to no avail. I have also tried setting the Directshow priority to 1 and even manually pasted the DVD2AVI.vpf file into TMPGEnc's file but even that didn't work. I'm at my wits end here. What gives?

[mrspangle]

Hi,

To use .d2v files you have to use a program called VFAPI Reader Codec 1.04. Search the net for it. You load the .d2v file and click go or whatever and it creates a .avi file and a .wav file

Hope that helped

John