a question about vob decoding....

[slider17]

being a newbie to all this video editing, coding etc i only see it fit to ask this question here on this excellent forum.

i have a .vob file that i have extracted from a dvd.
i want to convert it into something that can be used in virtualdub.
i eventually want to encode using the x.264 codec.

ive tried avsynth but that creates a file that cant be opened in virtualdub.

how do i go about this??

thanks
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[dragongodz]

ive tried avsynth but that creates a file that cant be opened in virtualdub.
then you are doing something wrong.

go to the dvd2avi/dgindex section and download and read/learn how to use it(dgindex i mean).

if you still have problems with avisynth then ask about them in the avisynth usage section.

[slider17]

let me clarify what i said, the file i have created using avsynth is a .m2v file, which cant be opened in virtualdub 1.6

is there a proggie out there that can encode this file format into a mpeg4 file (x.264)....

thanks
slider17

[dragongodz]

let me clarify what i said, the file i have created using avsynth is a .m2v file
and how did you create the m2v with avisynth ?

now follow this carefully.

download dgdecode(DGMpegDec) 1.2.1.
extract it to a folder.
copy your m2v to that folder.
run dgindex.
select open file and select the m2v file.
select save project and wait for it to finish.

create a new text(txt) file in the folder.
in that file add the 2 lines -

loadplugin("dgdecode.dll")
mpeg2source("file.d2v")

you have to change the .d2v name to what you saved it as from dgindex.
save that text file as test.avs ,yes .avs and not .txt.

run virtualdub.
load the .avs in it and encode away.

if you can not follow that then you really need to go to the dvd2avi/dgindex and the avisynth sections and do some reading. that is of course after you have read the documentation that comes with both of them.