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I have a client that has given me a video on DVD that they would like posted on their site. However, the video is not a file for the web. It was made in Cyberlink’s PowerDVD which appears to create the movie with .BUP and .IFO files coupled with their own file type. I cannot find an extension for their file type. My PC reads the file type as “PowerDVD File”. On top of that, all the audio is in a separate folder.
Does anyone know if there is a way to convert this to a .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, or .MPG file format without buying more Cyberlink software? I have access to the Full Adobe suite. Is there anything in there that could do it?
Much thanks in advance.
Cienwen
This only rips the files and is pretty quick process, from there you can use the MPEG as a source to convert to whatever you want.
I drop the link because it is hard to find,
erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
Great thing, it's totally free!
Enjoy
I downloaded SUPER and it seems to work with the file (although its version is very bright and light, alas!)
There’s just one thing I can’t figure out. How on earth do I save my output file? I just can’t find a Save option for the life of me.
Cienwen
I need to check on my laptop. Will get back to you tomorrow.
Tomda
tomba, if you know how to save work from SUPER, I would still like to know. Thank you for your time.
Cienwen
It was made in Cyberlink's PowerDVD
I use that suite (unfortunately) and all they need to do is produce a new project under the "produce" menu and select the file option, then mpeg 1 or mpeg 2. Then carefully select the right size and quality.
You can't (shouldn't) "reduce" a 740 X 480 DVD to a 320 X 240 mpeg for video without a very noticable degradation of overall quality. When you re-produce a new movie it uses the appropriate codecs and gives you the best quality at the smallests size (within this program's limitations.)
I do appreciate that the video quality is going to be junky if I compress the file to a 320 X 240 mpeg but I would like to have a really junky version available to people who don’t want to watch a huge file or download it.
When I converted this VOB to an Mpeg it is 255 megs. That means people are either going to have to download a huge file or I’m going to have to ZIP it then they will have to decompress it.
I don’t think most of this audience will be very savvy or patient so I would like to have two versions of it available. One good and one bad (but fast).
Does anyone have any suggestions of how to compress this MPEG perhaps with some Freeware? I’m going to make this a second post because it seems like a different topic.
Thank you all,
Cienwen
To put it into perspective using a standard VCD spec of 352x240 @1152kbps is just below VHS quality if encoded from a very good source. VHS's resolution is not much higher than that so using 720x480 doesn't provide much benefit but you can get almost 8 hours on a single DVD.
Codecs like WMV or Divx can compress much better at lower bitrates, for 720x480 you can use Windows Media encoder or even Windows Movie Maker to encode to WMV between 1000 and 2000kbps. Lower the resolution and you can go even lower.
The sweet spot depends on your source, higher quality sources produce better results at lower bitrates.
Sorry for the delay... I have played with SUPER over the week-end, but I forgot the check the version I had.
To encode/convert files, do the following :
A/ Launch SUPER.exe
B/ Right-click on the mouse and select "Add multimedia Files"
C/ Repeat B if you want to convert more than one file
D/ Tick checkboxes to select added files
E/ Press button "ENCODE ..."
Your sequence of steps how to work with SUPER came very handy to me too. Thanks a bunch,
John
[edited by: John_Blake at 12:40 pm (utc) on April 25, 2007]
