[OT] Converting VOB to something useful :-)

Hi,

I copied (most of) Paul Tippers eclipse video at the SDAS meeting. Cian wanted it for the podcast so I gave him the DVD. I used DVDdecryptor to get it to the hard drive. Anyone know whats the best way to get this into a format which most people could actually play? Be that mpeg, avi.

This is to put onto the DVD for cosmos, but since that will have pictures as well I want to just include the video as a file. For this version anyway.

Cheers,
~Al

p.s. hardly any of you have sent me anything in the post yet for this! PLEASE send me images that you took so we can make a souvenier of the trip!

windows media video! wmv

Thats a format most can play without any downloading of codecs (windows os)

dont worry Al, I'll be sending mine monday morning come hell or high water.
As for Pauls Video, what format is the original file??

windows media video! wmv

Thats a format most can play without any downloading of codecs (windows os)

Anything but wmv! For starters you do need a codec. Secondly it's Windoze only. And thirdly it's crap.

TMPG will encode VOB to MPG as far as I know - no codec required. Not free though - the freeware version only does MPEG1 (VCD).

Personally my favourite is Divx (avi). Gordian Knot will do this for you. It's a bit complicated to set up but you only need to do it once. Very worthwhile and extremely useful for backing up your own DVDs - if you have kids you'll know why

You will need to include a codec for this - but that's free from www.divxmovies.com/codec/ - you can include it on the disk to save people downloading it.

Instructions for GKnot are at this site

why not use normal vcd, this way it might work on a normal dvd player so you can watch it on TV, is the file too big?

why not use normal vcd, this way it might work on a normal dvd player so you can watch it on TV, is the file too big?

Problem is that I need this tested, finished, copied, labelled etc. by Friday. A cool multimedia DVD would be great, but I just dont have time to put it together.