Getting clips from DVDs - simple help?

[trythil]

It compresses them down to about 6 MB, but then nothing can read them.

Unless you're compressing frames of solid color, I have a hard time believing that you can reduce video size that substantially by zipping stuff up.

Nix last post. Two pass was too complicated, I did single pass and it worked, but now the audio won't work. And there is audio data in the file...

Most likely the audio track wasn't interleaved. You'll want to compress that (it can be extracted from the original video file) and include the stream.

[Laryna6]

Unless you're compressing frames of solid color, I have a hard time believing that you can reduce video size [i]that[/i] substantially by zipping stuff up.

No, the xvid thing. I know I'm not doing it right, but the directions aren't helping... I don't know what half of those things mean.

[quote="Laryna6"]Nix last post. Two pass was too complicated, I did single pass and it worked, but now the audio won't work. And there is audio data in the file...[/quote]

Most likely the audio track wasn't interleaved. You'll want to compress that (it can be extracted from the original video file) and include the stream.[/quote]

Interleaved? On second thought, never mind what that means, how do I do it? Small words, please. The guides are getting me more and more confused.