DVD-to-MPEG1 conversion

johnnyboy · Mon 30 Aug, 2004 02.45

I need some help from you guys.

As you all know, I am a big Queen fan and have recently joined the 'Queen Hub' - basically it's where collectors of non-official material, like myself, exchange what we have with other members - kind of like a private Kazaa or Emule.

I have 5 DVDs of unreleased concert videos I am trying to convert. I'd like to take the MPEG2s from the DVDs and compress them to MPEG1s, suitable for VCDs (and because it is much smaller on the hard drive too).

Basically, I am looking for the type of solution where I just stick a DVD into the DVD-ROM drive, press something and it appears as a compressed MPEG1 on my system.

Can you help me, please?

Big Brother · Mon 30 Aug, 2004 18.41

I have a tool called XMpeg, which I think is now illegal. Basically you put the disc in start the program and it prompts you to convert the data to another format available on your PC.

Handy... yet surely so illegal

johnnyboy · Mon 30 Aug, 2004 21.11

Thanks for that, BB.

I found XMPEG and downloaded it. Using it is simplicity - it does all the work for you.

Unfortunately, it keeps crashing saying that the FAT32 file can only support a certain amount of memory (4MB from memory, I think). I am running Windows 2000 Pro and have 29GB worth of free space.

I haven't rebooted the computer yet. Could that be the problem? I'm not sure if you'll know the answer, but you're the only person I know who uses the program.

Thanks in advance.

Big Brother · Mon 30 Aug, 2004 22.19

From memory I did have to restart my PC before it worked properly. I've never had any other form of problem with it apart from some encoding errors with sound jumping. (Was doing something else at the time hence the problems)

Neil Jones · Tue 31 Aug, 2004 00.13

johnnyboy wrote:Unfortunately, it keeps crashing saying that the FAT32 file can only support a certain amount of memory (4MB from memory, I think). I am running Windows 2000 Pro and have 29GB worth of free space.

That'll be the 4Gb file limit then present under FAT32. Basically you will not be able to have a file that is bigger than 4Gb in size. Video files take up a lot of room uncompressed so the only real way to get around it is to either compress on the fly (MPEG or whatever) or record in chunks and use something like VirtualDub to piece it together and compress it from that.

FraserGJ · Sat 04 Sep, 2004 22.54

Neil Jones wrote:
johnnyboy wrote:Unfortunately, it keeps crashing saying that the FAT32 file can only support a certain amount of memory (4MB from memory, I think). I am running Windows 2000 Pro and have 29GB worth of free space.
That'll be the 4Gb file limit then present under FAT32. Basically you will not be able to have a file that is bigger than 4Gb in size. Video files take up a lot of room uncompressed so the only real way to get around it is to either compress on the fly (MPEG or whatever) or record in chunks and use something like VirtualDub to piece it together and compress it from that.

You can also use an NTFS file system - that supports large files

If their DVD VOB files I use DVD Decrypter which converts them to regular MPEG2 files which VirtualDub MPEG2 can load. Thats also highly illegal but I put a 4Gb DVD on a FAT32 drive (they were seperate smaller VOB files though)

Big Brother · Sun 05 Sep, 2004 00.47

FraserGJ wrote:
Neil Jones wrote:
johnnyboy wrote:Unfortunately, it keeps crashing saying that the FAT32 file can only support a certain amount of memory (4MB from memory, I think). I am running Windows 2000 Pro and have 29GB worth of free space.
That'll be the 4Gb file limit then present under FAT32. Basically you will not be able to have a file that is bigger than 4Gb in size. Video files take up a lot of room uncompressed so the only real way to get around it is to either compress on the fly (MPEG or whatever) or record in chunks and use something like VirtualDub to piece it together and compress it from that.
You can also use an NTFS file system - that supports large files

If their DVD VOB files I use DVD Decrypter which converts them to regular MPEG2 files which VirtualDub MPEG2 can load. Thats also highly illegal but I put a 4Gb DVD on a FAT32 drive (they were seperate smaller VOB files though)

Then you need to convert your entire hard disc to an NTFS state. For one DVD. Seems a little much.

FraserGJ · Thu 09 Sep, 2004 00.35

Big Brother wrote:
FraserGJ wrote:
Neil Jones wrote: That'll be the 4Gb file limit then present under FAT32. Basically you will not be able to have a file that is bigger than 4Gb in size. Video files take up a lot of room uncompressed so the only real way to get around it is to either compress on the fly (MPEG or whatever) or record in chunks and use something like VirtualDub to piece it together and compress it from that.
You can also use an NTFS file system - that supports large files

If their DVD VOB files I use DVD Decrypter which converts them to regular MPEG2 files which VirtualDub MPEG2 can load. Thats also highly illegal but I put a 4Gb DVD on a FAT32 drive (they were seperate smaller VOB files though)
Then you need to convert your entire hard disc to an NTFS state. For one DVD. Seems a little much.

True - but NTFS is much more efficient with space

If you want to you older OSs I wouldnt recommend it though