Invisible wrote:
> Yeah, but that's because 3 blank rewritable DVDs cost me, like, £5
, and 
> now I'll never need to buy a blank DVD ever again. Doesn't seem like a 

> very good profit model to me. ;-)

OK. When this sort of disk-based camera first came out, they only wrote 
to write-once DVDs. I guess people figured it out. :-)

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Mueen Nawaz <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote:
> > mencoder dvd:// -o thevideo.avi -ovc copy -oac copy

> I think you need a -of avi there...

  Really? I have never needed that. Maybe it's different in the Windows port.

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Warp wrote:
> Mueen Nawaz <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote:
>>> mencoder dvd:// -o thevideo.avi -ovc copy -oac copy
> 
>> I think you need a -of avi there...
> 
>   Really? I have never needed that. Maybe it's different in the Windows port.

	I really don't know - never tested it. But that's what -of is for: To
specify the container format.

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Invisible wrote:

> Apparently Virtual Dub doesn't like MPEG2, but there's a thing called 
> "Virtual Dub Mod" which handles it. I downloaded and installed this last 
> night, and sure enough it will open and play the video file.
> 
> However... the sound is encoded with something called "AC-3", which 
> apparently isn't supported. So there's no sound. (Recall that the sound 
> is the part I'm most interested in keeping.)
> 
> At first I was truly upset about this. But now it occurs to me: I'm only 
> trying to *edit* the thing. Virtual Dub Mod can't *decode* the audio, 
> but it may well still be able to *copy* it regardless. And since it 
> *can* decode the video, I can still see what I'm editing. This might 
> actually work...

...but no, it doesn't work. Or rather, Virtual Dub Mod will load but not 
save MPEG files, and apparently you can't embed MPEG video data into an 
AVI container. So I either have to completely decompress the video, or 
re-encode it with a different codec.

> The slightly clunky alternative is to just cut the physical file into 
> pieces and see if it still plays. Various sources claim that the MPEG2 
> container format is supposed to survive this, so we'll see... (But 
> hopefully I won't need to try this.)

So I guess this is what I'll be trying next...

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Mueen Nawaz <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Mueen Nawaz <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote:
> >>> mencoder dvd:// -o thevideo.avi -ovc copy -oac copy
> > 
> >> I think you need a -of avi there...
> > 
> >   Really? I have never needed that. Maybe it's different in the Windows port.

>         I really don't know - never tested it. But that's what -of is for: To
> specify the container format.

  As far as I can tell, the default is avi. I have never needed to specify
-of when I'm creating an avi file.

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> and apparently you can't embed MPEG video data into an 
> AVI container.

  I have never had a problem with dumping an MPEG2 stream into an AVI file.
Maybe VirtualDubMod just has some weird limitation?

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On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:35:53 +0100, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> and apparently you can't embed MPEG video data into an
>> AVI container.
>
>   I have never had a problem with dumping an MPEG2 stream into an AVI  
> file.
> Maybe VirtualDubMod just has some weird limitation?

One requirement that comes to mind is that you need to have a  
VFW-compatible encoder installed to save anything with VirtualDub.


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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> and apparently you can't embed MPEG video data into an 
>> AVI container.
> 
>   I have never had a problem with dumping an MPEG2 stream into an AVI file.
> Maybe VirtualDubMod just has some weird limitation?

Hmm, interesting. Well that's what Virtual Dub Mod complained about... 
maybe they just haven't implemented that part yet or something?

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 
> Now... how in the name of God do you *edit* the thing?! >_<
> 

You open up the file in The Software(tm), find the person you want to
remove, right-click on his/her head and select "remove this person".

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Hi Orchid XP v8,

I'm not sure if there has been a solution yet (because I only skimmed through
the comments so far) but for converting VOBs to MPGs I use a program called
"VOB2MPG."  It can be downloaded at
http://www.svcd2dvd.com/downloads.aspx#VOB2MPG .  I haven't used it a lot so I
may not be able to answer many questions about it (but it is a very simple
program when it works).  Also there is a video editing program called Wax 2.0e
which is a moderately good (but free!) video editing application.  It has an
interface similar to more professional programs and it isn't too hard to learn
for simple things.  I hope this helps.

Bridgeofstraws

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