i know these threads keep getting closed because of the other guy but i wanted to point out a couple of things.
1. renaming the .dat to mpeg is indeed fine because the file is mpeg.
2. renaming .vob to mpg is fine beacuse vobs are also mpeg.
however, the other guy was advising renaming the vob to avi which i don't see as correct as surely the vob is not an avi at all!
this is the reason renaming causes confusion because people think that renaming changes the file, in fact it doesn't.
i am not saying he doesn't know this but it's bad practise for new users.
the only reason renaming can sometimes work is that your player or encoder is associtated with avi therefore the player is triggered by the double clicking of an "avi" but it in fact detects that it is an mpg stream and plays it back as mpg.
i don't want to get this confused with what the other guy was doing in his tutorial because it has nothing to do with it but it's not a good idea to advise newbies to renaming files incorrectly as it creates misunderstandings of whats going on.
also, i am for 1 button backups of dvds if that's what people want but usually once you have some sucess most peopel want to know whats going on behind the scenes.
And also, copying a vob file to another folder and renaming it then comparing has to be the lamest test i've ever heard of. Of course it's gonna be the same!! you could rename it myvideo.hornyhousewife if you like!
I don't think you understand that the file extension of a file has nothing to do with the contents. do you really believe that windows explorer is complicated enough to do on the fly file conversion for you cos you happily make a file mpg.
try changing an mp3 to jpg and see if you get a picture
now kindly let the people who do know what they are talking about get on helping people around here.
1. renaming the .dat to mpeg is indeed fine because the file is mpeg.
2. renaming .vob to mpg is fine beacuse vobs are also mpeg.
however, the other guy was advising renaming the vob to avi which i don't see as correct as surely the vob is not an avi at all!
this is the reason renaming causes confusion because people think that renaming changes the file, in fact it doesn't.
i am not saying he doesn't know this but it's bad practise for new users.
the only reason renaming can sometimes work is that your player or encoder is associtated with avi therefore the player is triggered by the double clicking of an "avi" but it in fact detects that it is an mpg stream and plays it back as mpg.
i don't want to get this confused with what the other guy was doing in his tutorial because it has nothing to do with it but it's not a good idea to advise newbies to renaming files incorrectly as it creates misunderstandings of whats going on.
also, i am for 1 button backups of dvds if that's what people want but usually once you have some sucess most peopel want to know whats going on behind the scenes.
And also, copying a vob file to another folder and renaming it then comparing has to be the lamest test i've ever heard of. Of course it's gonna be the same!! you could rename it myvideo.hornyhousewife if you like!
I don't think you understand that the file extension of a file has nothing to do with the contents. do you really believe that windows explorer is complicated enough to do on the fly file conversion for you cos you happily make a file mpg.
try changing an mp3 to jpg and see if you get a picture
now kindly let the people who do know what they are talking about get on helping people around here.
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