stevenator65

Originally Posted by Vennstrom

Steve, Is there anyway we can activate the chapter that came originaly with the DVD into the conversion process? I have this DVD music (about 30 or so clip), I would prefer to have the chapter rather than dragging the slider to find one which a bit annoying sometimes to fines the start of the clip. TIA

Tia, I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Can you take a screen shot perhaps or ask the question in a different way?

Vennstrom

What I meant,

Normally DVD have a chapter in it, is it possible when I encode it to avi format I will have the chapter as in the original DVD?

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stevenator65

Originally Posted by Vennstrom

What I meant, Normally DVD have a chapter in it, is it possible when I encode it to avi format I will have the chapter as in the original DVD?

Are you saying you want all the chapters and not just the one big chain that makes up the movie? I'm not sure you can do that, but then I never tried. Has anyone tried that?

jimbo32

Originally Posted by robbnj

Is it just me, or does it seem like way too much work to get video onto the Axim? Between the umpteen-hour decoding/encoding, then waiting for ActiveSync to decode/encode for the Axim transfer, it seems that I could just watch the show on full-size TV faster!

Actually, there are shortcuts and a more automatic mode. I get excellent results by naming the project (usually the movie name), indicating where I want the output file to go and just selecting file size (I use 100mb/30min of running time) and audio encoding method and bit rate. There is even an option for Fairuse to turn off your PC when it's done. So I just set those few parameters (about five minuites of my time), then let Fairuse do the rest (automatic mode). When I go back a couple hours later, I have an excellent copy of the movie to put on my Axim X50V.

Mank

Hey I hope someone sees this... whenever i try to sync the movie to my ppc through windows media player i get an error message about codecs... how do i fix this problem??? thanks

paulcb

General question - to record my personal DVD's to my computer (Windows XP) using FU or any other program, what type of drives can/should be used... DVD, DVD-R, any other options? I need to buy one, so any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,
Paul

Alastair

Originally Posted by Vennstrom

What I meant, Normally DVD have a chapter in it, is it possible when I encode it to avi format I will have the chapter as in the original DVD?

I think I know what you mean - DVD's are in chunks (chapters) and you want to retain the original format , the answer is I don't think you can exactly but you can output in a number of segments as part of the settings, so if there are 12 chapters you could create 12 segments - whether or not these precisely match the chapters I couldn't say - never tried it - the alternative is something like AVI Split Classic and create clips as per the chapters.

Alastair

Originally Posted by bsextonatl

I've use FairUse to convert some files for both my Creative Zen Vision:M and my x51v. It works great. However, I'm using the free version and it takes forever. A 22 minute TV episode takes about an hour to convert. I looked at the CPU % during the conversion and it was about 15-30%. Does anyone know if the paid for version uses more of the CPU and reduce the time? If so, I'd probably buy it.

I use the paid version and it takes just as long - the difference as I understand it is there is no file size limit - I think the free version is limited to 700MB

stevenator65

Originally Posted by paulcb

General question - to record my personal DVD's to my computer (Windows XP) using FU or any other program, what type of drives can/should be used... DVD, DVD-R, any other options? I need to buy one, so any help is much appreciated. Thanks, Paul

All you need is a plain dvd player, not even a dvd burner.

texedomel

thx! this will be my backup when anything goes wrong in DVD to PPC software I am using now

stevenator65

Today I redid the tutorial with larger images so it's easier to read. Added a few more steps to the tutorial and clarified a couple steps.

nsmartinez77

I am unsure which audio encoder I should download from the link provided in this tutorial..... Any advice would be apreciated. I do not see AC3 in the list.

Thanks

CodeBubba

Steve,

Very nice tutorial. You covered it well. I just started using FairUse myself recently. It just works.

-CB

stevenator65

Originally Posted by nsmartinez77

I am unsure which audio encoder I should download from the link provided in this tutorial..... Any advice would be apreciated. I do not see AC3 in the list. Thanks

if you're just starting out then use mp3, meaning you don't have to download an audio encoder. you'd have to have great ears to hear the difference b/t mp3 & ac3.

nsmartinez77

Originally Posted by stevenator65

if you're just starting out then use mp3, meaning you don't have to download an audio encoder. you'd have to have great ears to hear the difference b/t mp3 & ac3.

Thanks for the timely reply. I will stick with MP3.