VDubMpeg2 or MOD for editing ads

[warrenvur]

I have been following the teachings of Darren Yates, journalist, in Australian PC User magazine in his series of tutorials on video processing. I cannot contact him to ask questions direct.

His preferred method for digital-tv-conversion-to-DivX-with-ad-removal is:
ProjectX (clean & demux)
> VirtualDubMPEG-2 (de-interlace, resize & convert to DivX)
> VirtualDubMOD to remux
> THEN BACK to VdubMPEG-2 to edit out ads.

I have successfully edited whilst in VdubMOD thus avoiding the step of going back to VdubMPEG-2. What would be Darren's reason for using VDubMPEG-2 rather than MOD for editing?

[Guest]

VirtualDubMod does not properly honor the RFF flags in the MPEG2 syntax. For some streams this causes audio-video sync problems.

There may be other reasons but this one comes to mind.

[squid_80]

In Australia the chance of fields being repeated in DVB streams is pretty much non-existent. VDubMPEG2 is a lot newer than Vdubmod, but if Vdubmod can do everything you want then I don't know why you shouldn't use it for all steps. But I'd strongly advise to edit the ads out BEFORE compressing to divx rather than after.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Give Avidemux a try, it's a great tool ;)
http://prdownload.berlios.de/avidemux/avidemux_2.3.0_plus_win32.zip

That should have everything you'll need in one single application!
You won't be able use DivX. But there's XviD built in, which I'd prefer anyway.