Virtualdub user.exe Error

[Guest kristianmatthews]

Virtualdub refuses to open every now and then with a user.exe error, although most of the time its fine. Any ideas why it does this?

When I pull a .vob file from the DVD and play it in VirtualDub it plays jerkily. Not sure why its doing this. Anyone?

[Guest dude55]

Is your PC really slow?

[Guest siu99spj]

VirtualDub shouldn't even support VOB files, let alone play them. I'm guessing that you have the hacked AC3/MPEG2 variant. But either way, yes it will only play VOB files slowly.

On my older 1100MHz Athlon, they jerked along quite badly, though I don't tend to use VirtualDub with VOB files. For them I use either XMPEG (When its behaving) or FlasKMPEG.

If I also want to make a DVD for my phone, I'll recode the DivX rip in VirtualDub. Tends to be quicker and better quality too, though thats just a personal opinion.

But back to your question, VirtualDub will need a very high spec machine to play VOB files smoothly. Also a large amount of memory will help, but speed is the most critical factor.

[Guest kristianmatthews]

not just me then. ive played around with virtualdub for a few days now and pretty confident what im doing. ive got a 1 minute clip of fast and furious running at 24fps and 350kbps and its pretty flawless, although its almost 3Mb. just trying to find a perfect balance between quality and size, and whether i can really live with 8fps for the sake of a smaller file size :-)