yawnmoth
7th April 2007, 19:19
I'd like to be able to extract 30 second clips from DVDs and... it seems to be more involved then it ought to be.
I've tried opening a particular *.vob up with fccHandler's VirtualDub-MPEG2 (which no longer seems to be maintained :() and although that works, the "Parsing interleaved MPEG-2 file" loading screen takes a while. Enough time to make me look into alternative methods. Also, it seems to crash after 1-2 *.vob's have been opened up.
The AviSynth plugin DGDecode is the only one I'm aware of that'll let AviSynth read MPEG2 files, however, it'll only read them after you use DVD2AVI to make a *.d2v file. When I tried it, just now, it estimated that it'd take an hour. While that's certainly less time then it'd take to make an AVI file, I'd rather endure the whole "Parsing interleaved MPEG-2 file" thing above then deal with this.
There's a program called Cinematize 2 Pro that is advertised as being designed for this exact task, however, it doesn't seem that you are able to increment frame by frame as you are in VirtualDub (instead, it increments by 15 sec. intervals)
Know of any better solutions?
I've tried opening a particular *.vob up with fccHandler's VirtualDub-MPEG2 (which no longer seems to be maintained :() and although that works, the "Parsing interleaved MPEG-2 file" loading screen takes a while. Enough time to make me look into alternative methods. Also, it seems to crash after 1-2 *.vob's have been opened up.
The AviSynth plugin DGDecode is the only one I'm aware of that'll let AviSynth read MPEG2 files, however, it'll only read them after you use DVD2AVI to make a *.d2v file. When I tried it, just now, it estimated that it'd take an hour. While that's certainly less time then it'd take to make an AVI file, I'd rather endure the whole "Parsing interleaved MPEG-2 file" thing above then deal with this.
There's a program called Cinematize 2 Pro that is advertised as being designed for this exact task, however, it doesn't seem that you are able to increment frame by frame as you are in VirtualDub (instead, it increments by 15 sec. intervals)
Know of any better solutions?