Help a noob with transcoding, please

[RockSlice]

I'm trying to transcode a scene from a DVD into a *.mpg file, but am having limited success.

I've tried many different combinations of the options available, but keep ending up with a file that Windows Media Player refuses to play (vlc plays them fine, but I need WMP to play them as well), so it obviously isn't a regular .mpg file.

I've got no idea what all the different formats and encapsulation options mean.

Help, please.

[Tappen]

Do you have an MPEG-2 DirectShow filter installed so WMP can play the videos? VLC uses an internal decoder, but WMP requires DirectShow and there isn't an MPEG-2 filter by default from Microsoft.

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video ... __20070103

has the ffdshow project filters if you want a free one.

[RockSlice]

I'm trying to use an mpg file instead of running it off of the dvd player, mainly for putting into a powerpoint presentation, which is why WMP needs to play it.

[VLC_help]

ASF+ WMV2+ MP3
should work out of the box.

[Tappen]

The long version of VLC_help's comment is that instead of transcoding the DVD track to an mpg file, which requires extra codecs to play in Windows Media Player, try transcoding it to an asf file: pick ASF Encapsulation, WMV2 Video Codec and mp3 Audio codec. I'd use 2048 kb/s on the video to achieve good quality.

[andilla]

Hello, another newby here.

I have this exactly same question, so I am trying now what you suggested here so far.

It starts transcoding it, but instead of the short clip that I want to have, it does the whole thing. Which is: I ticked Enable Partial Extract, set the times: from 0:05:47 to 0:0743 but it would transcode it from 0:00:00 to 00:12:33

I tried it about 5 times, same results.

What shall I do?

[Tappen]

I'm not sure VLC is clever enough to do partial extracts from a DVD track. Try converting to an MPEG PS file as an intermediate step. The quality will be the same, just leave the trans-code video and audio sections disabled and pick MPEG PS encapsulation in the wizard. Save to a file with extension .mpg.

Run the wizard again on the .mpg file and hopefully on this pass the partial extract will work.

[andilla]

Thanks Tappen, but still didn't work...

But I tried something that somebody else suggested here in another topic and that gave the result, if anybody has this same question:
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