DVD to mpeg?
 

Be gentle I'm new to this ;)

So I bought a DVD recorder to transfer some VHS tapes. So far so good. Burned the DVD - works on dvd player BUT I would like to view on my pda or on a laptop w/o a dvd player (eg transfer files to hard drive)but with a dvd player software (eg nero). The format that the dvd recorder writes is not readable by either the computer or pda - it is a .vob format.

Is there a way to change this to mpeg or avi or.......

Use dvd decrypter and then dvd2avi to convert and compress the files.

RIP DVD decrypter

.vob is just an mpeg2 file with a different extension. You should be able to point a general purpose media player (like VLC ) at the file and it will work without any other processing.

Of course, if you tried to do this with encrypted movies, the result might be different :(

WinDvd will play .vob files

Take a look at WINAvi. I use it for simple stuff and, although a little slow, it works fine. But any compression is going to be very slow and my computer is older than it should be.

Also take a look at Dr. Divx. I haven't used it but the divx format is very good and constantly getting better. The other is Xvid though I don't know the compressor software for it. Like divx, xvid is a very good codec. I am sure if you go to the website that they will point you in a good direction for some compression software.

DVD to Divx how-to: http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/arch...anamorphic.cfm

Clever play on words considering that the author of DVD Decrypter got served with a C&D and chose to comply as well as surrender the domain name.

Doom9 and a few others still have the final (and free, did I mention free?) version, 3.5.4 available for download here Get it while you still can.

DVDDecrypter and AutoGK with xvid.

www.doom9.org is a great resource.