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I don’t consider myself a video-editing veteran, but I think I am fairly well verse when it comes to codecs and editing videos (ok, I was, my skills are not as good as 5uperpig *grin*).

Yesterday was the first time I edited a VOB format video (thanks to the “10min-less-than-100MB” policy from Youtube). I knew from zetallite that VOB is actually the same format as MPG, so renaming the extension will do the trick in Premiere. So I happily renamed, happily cut the clip into half, and happily rendered to flv, and happily uploaded to Youtube. Then to my utmost horror, the audio looped by itself when I viewed on Youtube today!

I nearly fainted. Frantically, I do a quick google and found an explanation and solution to it. Basically Premiere doesn’t support AC3 audio format, and it will loop the first few seconds. I did not use the software that the author recommended, because there’s no trial version. I did another search and found this forum thread instead, and downloaded Womble’s MPEG Video Wizard DVD. It offers a free trial of 30 days and you can convert the AC3 audio format to MPEG2 or PCM. I did that conversion and edited the clip successfully in Premiere.

Just thought I would like to share this little piece of knowledge. Hope you all will find it useful. Or do you all have any other ways to quickly edit a VOB? Feel free to post your comments!

I know my Norton has expired long long time ago and it’s not updating automatically. But I was unwilling to upgrade or change because I have never strayed to illegal sites and I think I’m pretty careful.

The day when I decided to switch to AVG because of its free service, my computer was detected to have inhibited Ravmon.exe. Such a headache for me as I am not a geek and I honestly don’t know where are all the system files.

Luckily there is internet and there is always an answer if you search hard enough. I managed to kill and delete all the files, my sincere thanks to Eminem from FKN1337. I didn’t follow his instructions exactly because I tried a few times and it couldn’t work properly. So I merely searched all the files mentioned in his post and deleted those whose status are hidden. Then I go to msconfig and uncheck a “no-name” process and restarted my computer. And VOILA! All is well.

Of course, along the way, I would like to thank sucker, devil and reghu for providing support and listening to me (although they didn’t help much, *keke*).

For noobs out there, scan your computer periodically with Trend Micro House Call and install AVG. And if unfortunately your computer gets infected with ravmon.exe, remember my this post and delete the virus all by yourself!

That said, I’m pretty proud of myself. *grin*