How to convert a DVD (IFO or file rip) to a DV avi?

[herbie747]

Hey - I have a bunch of DVDs that I made on my Liteon DVD Recorder which need to be edited in Premiere as a DV AVI file. Obviously I can rip these DVDs to my HDD in file or IFO mode (preferred) using DVD decrypter, but I need to convert them to a DV AVI for editing.

Does this software/freeware exist? I tried Virtual Dub, but it will only export to Uncompressed AVI without problems: when I try other codecs it either returns an error or the quality is crap, but uncomp AVI is too big!
I also tried to use "DVD2AVI", but it doesn't actually export avi's at all (wierd?) - it just gives me a "d2v" 'project' file for making MPEG files in TMPGenc! And most other "DVD to AVI" apps seem to support XVid or DivX codec only! I just want a simple "Microsoft DV AVI" output - PAL, 720 x 576, 25fps.

And preferably, I would like to batch convert them, so something like Auto Gordian Knot would be absolutely perfect for all my needs (supports IFO mode, batch processes to AVI, etc) but with a full res DV AVI output option, and not just DivX & Xvid!

Suggestions? I tried searching these forums for "DVD to DV AVI" and got no matches, so sorry if it's in the wrong section or been discussed before....

Cheers!

[Blue_MiSfit]

DVD2AVI is a depricated program. Its name is somewhat decieving. It's an MPEG-2 decoder that is designed to work with other encoding applications and frameservers (namely AviSynth). The evolved version is called DGMPGDec, which uses the DGDecode.dll AviSynth plugin to decode the MPEG-2.

The basic idea is
1) rip DVD to VOBs
2) index VOBs with DGIndex, save d2v project and demux audio track(s)
3) make avisynth script with simple Mpeg2Source("foo.d2v"), and any other filters you need
4) load avisynth script into VirtualDub, use fast recompress mode (no colorspace conversion, returns YV12), and save to either a lossless codec like HuffYVU/Lagarith, or a DV codec like Cedocida (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=94458). This will output an AVI that Premiere can read.

Let us know if that helps :)

~MiSfit

[herbie747]

I get this error when I try to load the AVS file:

http://www.twcfight.com/downloads/virt.jpg

[herbie747]

Go it - needed to specify the location of the plugin, so I added this code to the AVS file:

LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Sean\My Documents\dgmpgdec148\DGDecode.dll")

[herbie747]

Just one last question: how do I actually install the "Cedocida" codec?? I doesn;t appear in my dropdown box of codecs - and there's no EXE file to install it!

[Blue_MiSfit]

You should be able to simply right click on the INF file, and choose install. If not, drag the DLL to %SystemRoot%\system32 and run regsvr32.exe foo.dll

where foo is the name of Cedocida's DLL (cant recall off the top of my head).

One way to get video into Premere (that's actually much better quality than generating an intermediate DV file is to simply load the AviSynth script into Premiere. There is an input plugin (http://videoeditorskit.sourceforge.net/)that allows this.

Of course, you need to know exactly what format your DVD is. I'm guessing PAL interlaced since you made them yourself. In this case, AviSynth and Premiere should talk happily.

Also note, that DebugMode Frameserver is a great way to output video FROM Premiere using AviSynth instead of Adobe's hopelessly broken VFW output code.

~MiSfit