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Is that the only two options you have? Maybe try saving it as MPEG-2, i think that has video and sound properties.

get a better ripper program, you should have sound in an MPG file

what did you use to do it, what settings did you put on it etc? detail is really needed in cases like these because right now i've got as much clue as if you'd just said "my computer won't turn on! whats wrong?!" ... could be a broken power switch, fried motherboard, dead CMOS battery, short circuit internally, burnt out PSU, blown fuse in the plug, your house circuit breaker has tripped, your whole area is under a power cut... or you've just forgotten to plug it in / turn on the plug / turn on the monitor...

oh and don't save it as a WMV if you can avoid it, because there's a 73.8% chance i will accidentally come round and barbecue your computer

(sorry i have an irrational hatred of windows media player native formats, dont mind me)


in either case the presence or lack of sound is likely down to the settings you choose, as is the picture quality - neither of them should be inherently better/worse quality or more/less capable of containing sound. (well, i guess, if you take WMV as usually containing mpg-4 / "divx" encoding, and mp3 vs mp2 audio compression, it'll get more quality per byte, but hey whos counting)

sounds dodgy

(er, actually, not sure... ive heard it bandied about on the digital video forum i sometimes visit but cant remember their opinion of it... let me guess though, it came free with some piece of video / dvd / digicam hardware you bought?)

ok, any info on settings, exactly what you did with it, etc?

Well its been a while since i did anything like that in earnest (i recently burnt a backup, but it was of a disc i ripped months ago) but I've found Smartripper to be a good reliable disc reader (not really any good at doing clips, IIRC, however), then i feed it thru DVD2Avi to make it readable, and Virtualdub and/or TMPGEnc to do the final intro/credits-clipping, cropping, filtering, encoding etc.

Maybe a bit more complex than what you're looking for though... that's what i'd used to make DivXs (VDub) or MPG-based VideoCDs (TMPGEnc) of entire movies.

Not sure on what to reccommend for an all-in one solution to just grab a small section and transcode it, or why it's not working for you (at least, without you telling me the setup! come on man! ), but I do know somewhere you can go ask a few digital video gurus - http://www.videohelp.com. Thats where ive got the slivers of information i have anyway.
reminds me, i must nip back and find out the name of that shareware prog that can write dual-layer DVDs, as i dont have anything to do that yet ... despite a dual layer writer and a couple of DL blanks sitting around

theres software reviews, freeware/shareware sources, guide tutorials etc there as well

at the least I would suggest you get a hold of the shareware version of TMPGEnc, as even if you dont feel like a full re-encode, it can take your MPG file and attempt a re-multiplexing of the video and sound streams in case the ULead thing has encoded it funny. It can also give you a basic summary of whats in the file (video, audio, and control streams) to see if somethings missing.