It sounds like you decoded the whole file to 24bit avi or some sort. Make sure to goto the VDub Menu and select 'direct stream copy' for both audio and video, this will maintain the current encoding and should split the file and keep the total size the same.

Ah well, single pass does the same thing. wtf mate.

maybe i'll use xvid. hmph.

Yeah I'll try and see if one pass changes it, it's just weird because I've never had any problems with file sizes encoding into a single movie in the past.. and it does this when i split the movie into two segments manually or automatically. Thanks tho.

If this has already been addressed in the forums, I am sorry I could not find anything

When I encode a 2.5hour DVD with FairUse split to two 700MB files, I end up with a 580MB file and 940MB file. This has occurred many times with different movies, whether I encode the two halves using batch processing (700mb each) or select '2 Output File Segments' (and a 1400mb file) makes no difference.

Any help is appreciated.
If nothing else works I can encode with CBR audio to 1400MB file and split with VDub.

Fairuse allows you to select any segment of a video to Divx, H.264, or xvid, and you can add these segments to a batch to process later.

If the movie was shot on a NTSC camcorder it is interlaced.
Depending on if it was de-interlaced or changed back into progressive video, and how you burned it with nero, it can cause some blurriness around motion. Did you re-code the video before you used Nero to put on DVD? And did you use Nero Burning ROM or Vision Express? In Nero Express you may have option to burn as progressive or interlaced, you can try changing that.

using Nero create a Video-DVD, then place the video_ts folder's contents into the DVD video_ts folder in Nero, then burn to ISO image. Ta-da!

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I would use fairuse wizard LE to open the DVD, select whichever video stream you want, and then encode that to Divx. You can select what parts of the video you want, the size of the file, and encoding settings, then put it on your website.

And if you are looking for the audio off the movie, use VirtualDub to pull the audio out of the Divx file.

That's one way.

yes. And you have Nero, so you're in luck.

Copy the DVD's video_ts folder onto your computer.
Create a Video-DVD with Nero.
Copy the DVD's video files into Nero's video_ts folder.
Then you can make other folders and put the pictures and audio in those.

Once burned this DVD will have all the files readable on a computer and should work in most DVD players.

if you didn't change any settings, then it could be you are trying to burn to a cheapo DVD.  Sometimes the less expensive ones aren't full-size (as they claim) so you must set DVD size to slightly smaller when you encode with DVD Shrink to fit it on the disc.

Using markers on discs, storing under bright light, and what Pboy said can ruin discs.  Also using cheap discs the data on the edge of the DVD (or in case of dual-layer media, the middle of the data) can become corrupt due to the oxidation of the aluminum layer in the disc.

If your disc drive can read as fast as FairUse needs to process at full speed, then yes at least with Divx it takes advantage of hyper-threading, so I'd say it will use dual-core as well.  Otherwise if you are copying directly from DVD the drive is probably the limiting factor and it won't go (much) faster.

Yeah Sony's been a butt lately.  DVDFab Decrypter might also work to copy to ISO first then use fairuse.  Or possibly open DVD player on computer, then pause during movie, and this can sometimes allow you to rip it.

Could be the DVD has a scratch/unreadable sector and Fairuse just hangs on that spot. Try coping the DVD to your hard drive first with DVD Decrypter then open the ISO in fairuse.

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