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Posted by John Williamson on 10/28/07 15:57
raylopez99 wrote:
> I did install DVD2SVCD just now, along with "Any Video
> Converter" (http://www.any-video-converter.com/download/)
>
> Re DVD2SVCD, I could not figure out from what menus to use to simply
> deconstruct a .VOB file into something which I could use Audacity to
> extract audio. Please advise. Too many options on this program.
>
Starting from the beginning.
Uninstall TMPGEnc 4.
Uninstall Any Video Converter.
Install TMPGEnc 2.xxx which is available as a free download from the
website. The only restriction is that the MPEG2 encoder is only
available for 30 days after installation.
The first time it is run, you are asked to either buy a licence for
MPEG2 or confirm that you won't be encoding MPEG2. If, the first time
you run it, it has been called from DVD2SVCD, the process stops until
you tick the box on the TMPGEnc splash screen.
DVD2SVCD supports other, commercial, MPEG encoders, but not, as far as I
know, Any Video Converter.
Install DVD2SVCD using the default settings.
From the main window of DVD2SVCD, open the Misc tab, & using the
button, tell it to load settings from (System Disc)\Program
Files\DVD2SVCD\VCD.ini.
Also on this tab, tick the box that says "Don't delete any files", then
use the Set Default Directory button to set your desired location. (For
me, It's D:\Video\Temp)
This sets it up to copy the IFO & VOB files from the DVD to your hard
drive in your chosen location.
It then extracts the audio, using vStrip, saving it as
"Extracted_Audio_1.ac3".
A command line program called BeSweet.exe is then called, & this
converts the audio to MPEG1 Layer 2 audio, saving it as
"Encoded_Audio_1.mp2", with an average bit rate of 224Kbps.
Then TMPGEnc is called to batch convert a number of loading screens &
the video from the VOB files listed in the IFO file into a file called
"Encoded_Video_TMPGEnc_PAL.mpv"
Then the .mp2 & the .mpv files are multiplexed into a number of CD sized
.mpg (MPEG1) files, & converted into a number of bin/cue CD image
files for burning as Video CDs should you wish to.
I have just done this, & opened the .mp2 file in Audacity. It said it
was importing an mp3 file, but it worked fine.
I then used the LAME encoder, an open source, freely available download
which is linked to via the Audacity website to save the file as an mp3
file which plays back perfectly.
I also checked the .WAV and Ogg export functions, which worked as expected.
The workflow is easy once it's set up as above. Insert the disc & select
either the default .IFO or select any other .IFO file for conversion.
Then tell DVD2SVCD to rip & convert & go away for a while. (Cup of
coffe/ tea/ 7 course meal/ good night's sleep/ short holiday)
When you come back, import the mp2 file into Audacity, edit & save as
required.
Delete the files in the directory you used to store the DVD2SVCD stuff,
& start again.
About a dozen mouse clicks & a bit of typing does it for me.
I have this set up on a 1.2 GHz Celeron machine running Windows 98 and a
1.6 GHz dual core Toshiba laptop, and have had it running on a Celeron
700 MHz & a Pentium 850MHz laptop in the past. On the current Laptop,
running XP Pro & NTFS, it throws up a problem after TMPGEnc runs writing
to a file called "Avisynth.ini", but this seems to be a Windows
permission problem. If I clear the warning box, & use the recover option
on the misc tab to restart from where it stopped, it works fine.
I don't have a Vista machine to try it on.
Your high pitched squeak on sound every second or so I would think is
the result of a faulty sample rate conversion by Any Video Converter, as
the only time I get this symptom is when the mp2 or mp3 files are
corrupted, or there's a glitch in the playback from the optical disc.
If you're using Winamp or Windows Media Player 11, by the way, the mp2
file will play back directly within both these players on my system. An
Archos 504 portable player claims the files are corrupted & won't play
them back.
>
> *** UPDATE: Before I hit "send", I think the solution is to export
> the .VOB to .AVI video format, then, take the sound from this. But
> will Audacity handle .AVI? Is there a freeware (reputable, virus-
> free) program for .AVI (audio) to .MP3 (audio)? Does DVD2SVCD do this
> conversion? I'll reboot now and check back here within the next 24
> hrs for more info, and will post any workaround that I come up with.
>
>
Audacity wouldn't accept the AVI file I just fed it.
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Tciao for Now!
John.
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