Posted by raylopez99 on 10/28/07 12:54

On Oct 28, 5:23 am, John Williamson <johnwilliam...@btinternet.com>
wrote:
>
> DVD Decypter sometimes comes up as a positive on malware checks, but
> some of the sites that carry it are actually infested with malware
> carrying versions. It also allegedly has certain behaviours that trigger
> spyware/ trojan warnings, but I don't use it, so I'm not fully aware of
> what these are.

> DVD Decrypter fell foul if the Millenium DRM acts in the USA, so the
> developer dropped it. (As`far as I'm aware)

Yes, that's right. So I avoid.

>
> > This program: TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress Ver. 4.3.1.222 Trial Version -- has
> > severe limitations (30 min max output):
>
> http://www.tmpgenc.net/en/download.html
>
> Lets me download version 2.524 as a free, unrestricted MPEG1 version
> with a 30 day limit on availability of MPEG2 encoding after
> installation. This is the version I've been using for ages now. It has
> no limit on length of output file in MPEG1 format.
> I have had problems with later versions, though.
>
> However, the DVD2SVCD bundle processing only falls over due to the lack
> of a video encoder *after* it's extracted the audio files;-)

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.

Next, I used the program "Any Video Converter" which *did* work on
a .VOB file, to extract into "MPG" format (either 1 or 2, I chose 2),
which then Audacity was able to extract the audio, but with one big
annoying problem: when I played the audio that Audacity extracted,
periodically, every second, a very annoying series of high pitched
"peeps" or "beeps", like little Martians speaking, would pop up. I
had used the default settings (whatever they are, I didn't look) for
both programs. For "A V C" program I exported the sound into .MP2,
not .AVI, which, now that I type this, perhaps is the reason for the
sound (since .MP2 is not .MP3?)*** Just checked again--Audacity
imports the .mpg file as .MP3, and the sounds are "skipping" high
pitched sounds, loud enough to be annoying and make the audio painful
to listen to--can this be a failed conversion from .MP2? Maybe I'll
export to .AVI but. At least when I was doing a real-time capture the
background "hiss" was not annoying and I could listen to the audio.
Now I can't. The one advantage that this non-real-time conversion had
was that indeed it was about 3 times faster (10 minutes for "Any Video
Converter" to extract the audio from a 30 minute .VOB video file),
but, the annoying thing was this program did not give a "progress bar"
so it was hard to tell when it was going to end.

All in all, this is just too much work for me. Unless I hear back
from you or anybody else within the next day or so, I will disinstall
these programs and go back to just using Audacity in a real-time
conversion scheme while playing WIndows Media player.

BTW, I've just wasted a good part of 2 hours doing this, as I had
feared, but thanks for your time in any event.

RL

*** 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.

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