Clipping an M4V file

[tsiankiio.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I used handbreak to rip my DVDs, and I now have a .m4v file. My problem is that neither VirtualDub or VirtualDubMod will open it, and MPEG Streamclip crashes when I try to open it. Is there something else I should be using to turn my one big .m4v into smaller clips? Or am I just doing something stupid?

I have the amvapp package, and am running Windows 98. Usually I use WMM, but I decided that no longer suited my needs, so this is the first time I've tried clipping anything.

Comments

[pwolf.livejournal.com]

why did you convert it to m4v? you should be converting it to something editable like a huffyuv/lagarith avi.

[tsiankiio.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay, I converted to m4v, because my other choice to save a a ripped dvd in handbrake was xvid, and the AMP guide said to stay away from divx. I take it I should use something else?

[pwolf.livejournal.com]

yes

[tsiankiio.livejournal.com]

okay, but what? I've got a handful of different software and I feel like I've read ten different set of directions, all telling me to do something different (which is how I've ended up with so much software: I have DVDdecrypt, DVD2avi, handbrake, VirtualDub and DubMod, MPEGstream clip... which one?)

[pwolf.livejournal.com]

combination of most of those:

DVDDecrypter, DVD2avi, and vdub

you should also use avisynth.

1. rip the dvd with dvddecrypter
2. process it with dvd2avi and avisynth
3-a. encode it with vdub to huffyuv/lagarith
or
3-b. edit with the avisynth script and don't encode at all.