Hi guys, help required from the experts here to aid my frazzled brain. I have a friends wedding video taken from a video camera and put into VOB format on a DVD. I firstly converted this to Mpeg2 - which of course doesn't work with WMM. (Using TMPGEnc) Although I didn't know this at the time..I mean..mpeg - windows....c'mon, it should work! Anyway, I then converted the Mpeg2 to AVI (Using Flaskmpeg) I've tried several different codecs but the end result is the same. The video is 13 mins long but only 2 mins exactly is being recognised by WMM. I can play with this 2 mins perfectly but obviously, I want the whole 13! I've trawled through papajohn's website and my eyes are burning with google searches. I just can't figure it out. (I should point out that I was only using free utilities to convert/encode. I don't want to buy things fo this one 13 min video.) I have WMM v.5.1 and SP2 on XP. Is there anybody out there that can ease my pain??!?!?!?! Many thanks in advance!
I'm not clear what you are trying to do with this video. If it's on a DVD and you want to view it on the PC, download 'VLC' and use that. All these conversions are are degrading the quality. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Hi attar, sorry you're right I was not clear. (video was the wrong word to use!) The wedding dvd is an unedited jumble. I wanted to use WMM to play around with it. So I have moved the DVD content to my HDD using DVDFAB. As I say, VOB and WMM do not go together, so I encoded to mpeg 2. Again, I found out this and WMM were not friends. So I encoded again to avi (based on what I read on these forums and papajohn's site). However although WMM is accepting the avi file, it is only recognising the first 2 minutes and ignoring the rest. I've checked both the mpeg2 and avi encodes and both are the required 13 mins long so I know its not a bad encode. For some reason WMM is just not recognising the last 11 minutes of the file. I hope this clarifies my problem. Thanks L
I don't know how to make WMM accept it, but you could edit the DVD with: TMPGencDVD Author Pro it has a full trial. http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/tsunami_mpeg_dvd_author_pro_guide.cfm AviDemux (also for VOB) http://www.videohelp.com/tools/AviDemux Or even DVD Shrink in reauthor mode.I have had fine results editing commercials from TV eps.
I also had no luck with Windows movie maker so use Pinnacle 10 for home movies a I'm able to make some great home movies with all kinds of extra things you can do with it.
Thanks for the help. I figured it out last night...I think. It seems that all I needed to do was change the WMM settings to widescreen!?!?!?!? So simple. After all the hassle I've had I can't believe I hadn't already tried that. Anyway, problem solved. Grassyass L
