.d2v file editing?

Bushido Philosopher · Post by **Bushido Philosopher** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 6:36 pm

simple question:
is there any way that i can change the .d2v file so if the .vob files are moved to another directory, that i will not have to save another project file just because they moved?

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 8:49 pm

no

You have to recreate the the d2v file

I believe the d2v file is plain text, so one could probably use a text editors "replace" function, to go through it and replace the old path with the new path. Never tried it though.

~Klinky

Bushido Philosopher · Post by **Bushido Philosopher** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 11:46 pm

aw crapulence....

oh well. thanks klinky.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 12:19 am

Well I fiddled with it and found a way.. pretty simple.

I even ripped a DVD for this... So huff :p

Open the D2V file in Notepad. you'll see something like this.

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DVD2AVIProjectFile
2
24 H:\EvaDisc1\vts_01_1.vob
24 H:\EvaDisc1\vts_01_2.vob

Stream_Type=1,0,0
iDCT_Algorithm=2
YUVRGB_Scale=1
Luminance=128,0
Picture_Size=0,0,0,0,0,0
Field_Operation=0
Frame_Rate=29970
Location=0,0,1,42F83

Now the first line is just a file indentifier.
The second line I believe lists how many vob files are in the project.
The third line contains the path and the length of the string that is used to describe the path. You'll probably see as many lines as the second line states.

All you need to do is change the path and the length(how many characters are in the path).

Example:

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24 H:\EvaDisc1\vts_01_1.vob
24 H:\EvaDisc1\vts_01_2.vob

Gets changed to:

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15 H:\vts_01_1.vob
15 H:\vts_01_2.vob

The numbers at the begining are how many characters are in the path, NOT including the space between the number and the path.

Save the file with a D2V extension or overwrite your old file and it should work fine.

~klinky

ErMaC · Post by **ErMaC** » Wed Jul 17, 2002 10:37 am

klinky - did you actually test this? Cause every time I tried to do that it still didn't work - I've found the paths are not portable. At least, that's in my experience.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Wed Jul 17, 2002 11:11 am

yeah it works for me...

~klinky

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Wed Jul 17, 2002 11:22 am

I just tried it again and it worked fine.