NotebookForums.com › Forums › Notebook Manufacturers › Apple Notebook Forums › Apple Notebooks › Mac Noob needs little help....
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

Mac Noob needs little help....

post #1 of 14
8/16/05 at 7:00pm
Thread Starter 
Hi guys, I have me a an "old" new G4 notebook. Well, I been playing around with it and I wanted to convert my Babylon 5 DVD set into a single DVD, ie. make all episodes an AVI. and burn them on to a single DVD (so I dont have to carry the box set with me, if i want to watch an episode or two, I travel allot).

Anyhoo, I used thingy called MacRipper to get my VOB files. But for the life of me I cant find any software that would take those vobs and turn them into avi files. If any of you guys know of such a beast let me know please.

thanx in adavnce for any help.
Reply
Reply
post #2 of 14
8/16/05 at 7:41pm
Popcorn.
Reply
Reply
post #3 of 14
8/16/05 at 8:03pm
I have a similar question to Fever's... I do have Popcorn and have tried dragging the Video_TS directory into it but I only see an option to burn to a DVD -- it does not allow you (unless I'm mistaken) to convert the VOBs into an AVI file.

If anyone has any other helpful ideas, please do post them here as I'm running into similar problems!
Reply
Reply
post #4 of 14
8/16/05 at 8:55pm
I know of software for the PC that will do that (i've been running into the same problem and found this first) from AoAmedia that works excellently however you do have to purchase it (unless you find a cd key)

http://www.aoamedia.com/download.htm
Reply
Reply
post #5 of 14
8/17/05 at 3:01am
Thread Starter 
thanx guys, I do have stuff for PC - its just a pain to transfer files back and forth, I shall try that mac software mentioned above.
Reply
Reply
post #6 of 14
8/17/05 at 4:50am
Oh, my bad...I misread the OP.

Popcorn is only for shrinking DVD video to fit on 4gb disks.

As for converting DVD video to AVI, Quicktime Pro should be able to do it for you.
Reply
Reply
post #7 of 14
8/17/05 at 5:24pm
Really? I had no idea Quicktime pro would do that... interesting
Reply
Reply
post #8 of 14
8/17/05 at 6:50pm
hmmm, yeh, i didn't know QT pro could handle VOB and associated files appropriately...
Reply
Reply
post #9 of 14
8/17/05 at 6:51pm
It should but don't quote me.
Reply
Reply
post #10 of 14
9/2/05 at 8:25pm
I've had good luck with Handbrake. It will convert DVDs, VIDEO_TS folders, or whatever to MPEG-4, H.264, AVI, or Ogg. Plus, its Free.
Reply
Reply
post #11 of 14
5/15/07 at 11:12pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by aliensinalaska
I've had good luck with Handbrake. It will convert DVDs, VIDEO_TS folders, or whatever to MPEG-4, H.264, AVI, or Ogg. Plus, its Free.
I second the recommendation for handbrake. Also, for files that are already converted to avi, or wmv or other such things, use ffmpegx to convert them to another format.
Reply
Reply
post #12 of 14
5/16/07 at 1:40am
Please try to keep thread necromancy to a minimum, thank you.
Reply
Reply
post #13 of 14
6/12/07 at 8:34pm
Popcorn is best. For burning I recommend DragonBurn hands down
Reply
Reply
post #14 of 14
6/17/07 at 6:20pm
google VLC
Reply
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: Apple Notebooks
NotebookForums.com › Forums › Notebook Manufacturers › Apple Notebook Forums › Apple Notebooks › Mac Noob needs little help....