.Vob to Wmv

Zinsurin · Post by **Zinsurin** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:21 am

I used to be able to convert .Vob to .Wmv by using Divx converter and then windows media encoder. But now I cant seem to do it.

Is there another way to do it? Time isnt an issue with me because I'm usually away from my computer for about 6 hours at a time.

each time I try to convert from Divx to .wmv it comes up the error. Invalid or corrupt data was encountered.[0xC00D002F]

I dont know what that means but if anyone has any idea of what I can use now to convert please let me know.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:28 am

Why are you trying to convert .VOBs to .WMV in the first place? If you want to be able to edit the footage, there are much better options.

Zinsurin · Post by **Zinsurin** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 2:07 pm

well I have an old computer and the only way that I can get footage without going through a sharing network or torrents is for me to rip a dvd then convert it to a format that I can use for editing.

I used to be able to rip to .vob
Convert to .divx
Ecnode to .wmv
then start editing using windows movie maker.

I now have Premier but I still need to convert the footage to .wmv or another format that I can use for premier.

But like I said before if anyone else has a better idea I'm all ears.

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 2:25 pm

Here's a much better idea, trust me on this:

Read this. Or, if you just need to know about the converting, read this part.

The only thing you should know is that if you plan to make Lagarith or HuffYUV-encoded clips, they take up a lot more space than WMVs.

Zinsurin · Post by **Zinsurin** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:40 am

Well I have a 120Gb drive just for Amv stuff so I think i'll be fine as long as I only do one at a time.

Thank you so much.

Zinsurin · Post by **Zinsurin** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 2:56 pm

OMG! I don't have enough room on my drive for this much data!

even using the lagraith lossless codec I cant fit all 26 episodes on my hard drive.

Is there any other suggestions for compressions? I would like to save all 26 episodes on the drive.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:01 pm

Zinsurin wrote:OMG! I don't have enough room on my drive for this much data!

even using the lagraith lossless codec I cant fit all 26 episodes on my hard drive.

Is there any other suggestions for compressions? I would like to save all 26 episodes on the drive.

Either clip what you need or buy a new HDD.

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:19 am

Zinsurin wrote:OMG! I don't have enough room on my drive for this much data!

even using the lagraith lossless codec I cant fit all 26 episodes on my hard drive.

Is there any other suggestions for compressions? I would like to save all 26 episodes on the drive.

Unless you're planning on making a 650-minute AMV, there's no need to rip entire episodes to your hard drive.

Zinsurin · Post by **Zinsurin** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:29 am

I always liked to have the entire series on the disk so should I decide to make another video on the same series or change the direction of the video all together I don't have to rip individual clips.

I honestly didn't expect that 2 hours of footage could take up 15+ Gb of space.

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:48 am

Zinsurin wrote:I always liked to have the entire series on the disk so should I decide to make another video on the same series or change the direction of the video all together I don't have to rip individual clips.

I honestly didn't expect that 2 hours of footage could take up 15+ Gb of space.

Well, you can always keep the scenes you rip and then rip more as needed. There's no reason to have complete episodes on your computer, at least not in Lagarith/HuffYUV format. It's not always convenient, but that's just the way things are when you're an editor.

As for the second part of that comment...

If you're saving entire episodes losslessly, 15 GB sounds pretty good to me.