Video Compressing Software

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Danoff
I've been playing around with DVDShrink a little and having fun with the start/end time feature. I'm wondering if anyone knows how to make that feature step by individual frames rather than by groups of frames.
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I had the same issue when i attempted to clip some of my movies (kids don't care about the credits. Except for Cars). I haven't looked online for a solution, but I never came across a setting or anything, either.
Danoff
Alternatively if you know how to split a VOB file at a certain frame - that would work. I found a VOB splitting utility that makes you guess how may bits into the file you want to go before it cuts. Not sure that's going to work very nicely.
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My problem is that then uses another piece of software that really shouldn't be necessary. I'm already using one to extract the vob and another to convert it to Divx (and a third if you want to count the one I use to put avi's on my Zen). I shouldn't have to add another one to split/clip the vob - that should be the ripper's job. Sadly, Shrink is the best ripper I've used (both in terms of quality and usability) but it fails at splitting, obviously.
 
Small resurrection of this thread:

I have some DVDs (actually movies on TV recorded with my HDD recorder) stored on my hard drive, and I need to compress them. They're simply mpegs created using copy /b VTS_01_1.vob+VTS_01_2.vob+VTS_01_3.vob[etc] "somedir\output file.mpg" at the command line; as such they're completely uncompressed and take up around 3-4 gigs each.

I've tried converting them to a format such as wmv using various applications (Windows Movie Maker, VLC etc), but the conversion time is pretty much a 1:1 ratio with respect to actual movie length. Would compressing using DivX or similar be much faster than converting to a higher-compression format? Bear in mind I don't want to lose anything by way of A/V quality.
 
I has been my experience that with my T7200 C2D laptop, a (approximately) 6 gig vob converted to a 1 gig Divx takes about an hour and a half, so almost real time.

Hope that's what you're looking for.
 
So converting is pretty much real time. Bugger.

Would compressing the mpegs without converting them be much quicker?


As a baseline, my laptop has a 2.1 Athlon X2 64 with 2GB RAM.
 

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