"divx video"-sign vob->avi

[danei]

hello everybody!
i am an absolute beginner at all this and I used the search-function to find an answer to my question and although someone must have asked this question before I couldn't find a thread about it.. so please be gentle!

I am attending an art college and I have to make sort of a collage from serveral dvds. none of the extracted parts can be longer than 30 seconds, so i ripped the whole dvd to my hard drive, cut the -30 sec with chopper xp and converted it to avi with autoGordianKnot. I tried several different programs but since I am new to all of this i never managed to get the sound and video to match each other and it needs to be in avi because i have to do some modifications in premiere afterwards.

anyway.. i finally managed to get the thing i want with AutoGordianKnot but it shows a "divx video"-sign in the right bottom corner whenever a new movie starts and since my movies are as I said very short this sign keeps appearing and disappearing and appearing and disappearing and that is (as you surely can imagine) extremely annoying.

so my question: is there a way to turn this sign off or is there another easy way to turn a vob file into an avi file? i tried virtualdubmod and one or two other but the sound sounded horrible (it was dissorted and stopped over and over).

i hope one of you can help me!
thanks. danei

[CWR03]

To begin with, it might help you to know that an .avi isn't a file type, it's a container. You may want to convert to uncompressed AVI to maximize compatibility - using AutoGK to DivX for future editing purposes is probably not going to work for you. If ChopperXP allows you to save directly from the ripped VOB's without editing (and if it doesn't, Cuttermaran does), you could complete your collage in clips and render them all at once, or you can load the clips directly into Premiere if you have the MPEG-2 plugin installed. There are also a number of programs that can convert directly from VOB files (which are MPEG-2) to uncompressed AVI. There are quite a few options for what you are doing, but encoding to DivX is not one I'd recommend.

[jggimi]

The "DivX Video" logo that you're seeing on playback is produced by the DivX codec -- If you insist upon staying with your current procedures you can either alter the codec's configuration or use a different MPEG-4 codec for playback of DivX encoded files -- XviD and ffdshow can play back DivX, for example.

[unskinnyboy]

To remove the logo:

Bring up the DivX Playback Configuration window.
Go to the Toolbar tab.
Uncheck Show DivX logo watermark.

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/5779/divxplayback2dy.jpg

Click OK.
Restart your player.

[danei]

]There are also a number of programs that can convert directly from VOB files (which are MPEG-2) to uncompressed AVI. There are quite a few options for what you are doing, but encoding to DivX is not one I'd recommend.

thank you for the answer.. i indeed did not know that .avi is not a file type but a container. So if you say that there are better options for what I want to do I would highly apreciate it if you could tell me which options you mean. or also which program is the best (don't forget that I am willing to learn but still a beginner.. so maybe not THE most complicated) for vob (mpeg-2) to uncompressed avi conversion.

danei

[danei]

To remove the logo:

Bring up the DivX Playback Configuration window.
Go to the Toolbar tab.
Uncheck Show DivX logo watermark.
Click OK.
Restart your player.

that sounds easy.. but where do I find the DivX Playback Configuration?

[unskinnyboy]

that sounds easy.. but where do I find the DivX Playback Configuration?
Assuming that you have the DivX Play bundle installed, it will be accessible from your Start menu.

Programs -> DivX -> DivX Codec -> Decoder Configuration Utility.

[danei]

Assuming that you have the DivX Play bundle installed, it will be accessible from your Start menu.

Programs -> DivX -> DivX Codec -> Decoder Configuration Utility.

i didn't have the divX play bundle installed, but i installed it and changed the option and it works. thank you so much again!