when to use the .avi?

[t_tringle]

Roger,

I believe that I can clear something up in this regard. You pretty 
much have already stated this, but in case anybody else has further 
information on these programs and their uses/ability to work 
together, I would be curious to see what other programs people have 
used DVD2AVI and VFAPI-Conv-en.exe with.

The D2V file is a mapping of the MPEG stream basically allowing 
programs that use the VFAPI format (haven't found too much 
information on this) to open the file and then basically understand 
how to handle the file without a specially written plugin. This file 
is then converted into a dummy AVI file with the VFAPI-Conv-en.exe. 
The AVI file that is then created is really only a further mapping of 
the original D2V file. It's basically a file that allows programs 
that would normally only work with AVI files, ie. Premier without a 
plugin, and Virtualdub to be able to open them and manipulate them as 
they would a native AVI file. Of course since the original MPEG is 
supplying the "D2V" file which is in turn supplying the VFAPI-
Conv "AVI" file, if you delete the original mpeg file or the D2V 
file, the entire chain breaks down.

It took me quite a while to realize, why I was continually getting 
black screens with a certain AVI file until I realized what I had 
done ( I had renamed the original mpeg file, thus breaking the chain.)

I hope I have helped someone else understand this as I have, without 
insulting anybody who has already figured out the dependency levels 
of these programs and how they work together.

Thanks

Tim Tringle 
> I'm not 100% sure how it works, but I've tried deleting files like
> the .d2v & the .avi when I thought they were no longer needed, and
> I've found that the process fails to work right after that. All I 
can
> think of is that the vfapi_conf.avi files act like a "pipe" in linux
> - they're just a "conduit" to reformat the info on the fly to the 
way
> that TMPGenc & NanDub expect. That would explain their small size.
>