avi to vob to avi

[asphaltsurfer]

hi folks

i didn't find anything on this topic, so i hope someone in here can help me:

i got that problem that i ripped a dvd using DVD2AVI, VFAPI and VirtualDub.
it went down like this:
.vob -->DVD2AVI-->.d2v-->VFAPI-->.avi
.vob-->GRAPHEDIT-->.wav

then i joined the wav and the avi file, compressing the wave-file with the mp3 codec.
because i ripped only 6 minutes of the dvd, the final file with sound is 4MB - which is pretty small as i thougt...

my question now is:
can't i somehow record a "fake-dvd" .vob-file from my VCR and then "rip" it using dvd2avi and vfapi???
this would get it much smaller, because just recording from the VCR and compressing with DivX 4.11 makes a 12 second avi more than 2.5 megs large ...


if this stuff up there cant be understood please tell me so - else: pleeeeeeaaase heeeelp!

[asphaltsurfer]

it's so simple(-dvd)

i just saw that <b>Simple-DVD</b> from <b>PixelTools</b> does avi-to-vob concersations, but i want something freeeeeeeee. free trade - free products - free life - free everything

and <b><i>liberate animals</i></b> hehe

[benderman]

6 min on 4 MB??? Sorry, but that can't be true. That means that video+audio need less than 100kbps. Even the most worse video from the internet has about 200kbps.

12 sec on 2.5 MB is very close to DVD-quality.

Pleas write smothing (bitreate, resolution) about the settings you used in both ways.

[asphaltsurfer]

that's what i thought, too

well, DVD2AVI ripped the vob-file down to 26KB, then, using VFAPI, i convertet the d2v-file to avi and i got a 784KB, 6minute avi file

you want some info? well here you go
<b>res: 720x480
fps: 23.98
datarate: 759 kbps
duration: 371.04 secs</b>
( i got this info from my firehand-ember a.k.a. mediaplayer )

i remember reading that VFAPI does not really convert to avi, but creates a pseudo-avi. maybe that's why it's so small.

[asphaltsurfer]

what annoys me though is that the video is a bit laggy in fullscreen-mode. maybe the low fps-rate caused this ... and maybe it caused the small filesize

what do you think?

[benderman]

Sorry, I didn't read the VFAPI-thing in yoir first post. VFAPI dosn't encode or compress the d2v-file. It only tells windows how to handle the d2v. The vfapi-avi is always only a few MB small. It normaly dosn't contain any video or audio-information. If you delete the vob-files from yout hdd the vfapi-avi wont work anymore. You will have to open the vfapi-avi in VD and cmpress it using Divx.

[asphaltsurfer]

k, thanks. all fixed

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