DVD to AMV???HOW
 

please answer.

Yes you can do it using amv converter, just select the .vob files you want to convert and that's it.

i tried that but i gives me error in converting. do you know what's going on?

wuzzupnshiat, The easiest way is to rip your DVD to an avi before converting to AMV. Converting straight from vob files can give you audio sync problems and low volume levels. Do you have a codec pack installed if not I suggest K-Lite mega Codec Pack a Google search will find it for you. I use Slysoft Clone DVD Mobile to rip to AVI not freeware sadly but the fastest and easiest tool I have found and believe me I have tried a few. You will also need DVD43 to get around the DVD protection.

yo tadad can i put a whole DVD in there, or do i need to seperate them in parts?

wuzzupnshiat, Clone DVD mobile will rip the whole main movie to a single .AVI.

yo tadad1 i pmed but you didn't repl so i'm gonna ask ou agian

which option do you ppick that makes it into avi

wuzzupnshiat, PMed you back :)

ya you did haha, i got it to work but theres' one thing you didn't tell me...

it takes too long to convert...now i gotta wait about 2 hours for it to convert...oh well i got studying to anyway...

wuzzupnshiat, I suppose it depends on your PC specs. I am ripping one now 40 minutes.

nice

ya i have a 1.6ghz computer wth only 256MB of ram. i've had for 4 years now. It runs good though.

Re: DVD to AMV???HOW
 

Hi wuzzupnshiat, probably a bit late, but here's what I've done. Only had my player a few days, and don't know the amv format inside out, so everyone feel free to correct me on anything.

I used the vob files I had ripped to harddrive for normal burning. Look for the first "big" file, like 0.99GB, then find the ifo file just before it.

I used FlaskMPEG (free) to then output an avi, by pointing to said ifo file. Not sure exactly what I did, but I somehow crop and letterbox it so I get the same aspect ratio but a SQUARE output (for 128x128), 480x480. I experimented a bit to get this figure, move the main timebar across so you get to a pic from the movie, then use the "video panel" to crop horizontally and add vertically, until you find something acceptable. 480x480 seemed acceptable to me, not too much cropped off the sides, and not so letterboxed as to be unwatchable on the "small screen".

Sound might be an issue. Both of the DVDs I tried (Cars and Kenny) gave extremely low sound levels. There's normalisation etc options in flaskMPEG, but I couldn't get it to work properly, so I just extracted the audio using VirtualDub, sent it to GoldWave, then experimented with volume boosts and compression etc until I got a decent level. Then changed the sound source in VirtualDub to the new wav file, and exported the avi ("Direct stream copy" on video).

Then just feed it to the amv converter. 1DVD => ~300MB! And perfectly watchable if you don't overdo the letterboxing.


A Q to those in the know: do you have to make the source square aspect? ie. will the converter stretch anything that's not in the right aspect ratio, or will it simply add blank space?
If the latter, does this cut down the file size, rather than feeding in blank black letterboxing?