.VOB To Quicktime for Newbie- Step By Step or FAQ ?!?

[Percy Dovetonsils]

I searched for this topic and couldn't find what I was looking for so please forgive me if this post replicates another thread.

How can i take the .vob files I'm creating on my Panasonic DMR-E50 and convert them to Quicktime movies that I can email or post on my webspace?

I mean- I've seen the thread concerning using ffmegx, and i downloaded it, but I can't make heads or tails out of how to use it (there don't really seem to be any instructions).(I'm not a very technical guy-sorry...)

Is there an existing FAQ someone can point me to?Or can someone walk me thru it?

Thanks

[galactica]

FFmpegx : homepage.mac.com/major4

you will see numerous links at the top
Video - Audio - Filters - Options - Tools

and each link is a TAB in ffmpegx. Each page will tell you what each option does.

There is also a ffmpegx forum https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=35 where you can ask direct questions

Essentially, you will need to use ffmpegx to do what you want.
There are actually a lot of ways to do this the easiest would be do a .vob to .mpeg conversion (and you can choose if you want it to be mpeg1 or mpeg2) NOTE: Mpeg2 playback in quicktime requires a mpeg2 component on the users comptuer and I believe its $19 dollar download from apple.com

When i get time, ill try to make a how to for .vob to .mpeg
but in the mean time all i can say is play around with the FFMPEGX page and test things using one of the smaller .vobs

with ffmpegx open you get

1. Load the .vob using teh OPEN TAB
2. choose a save location using the save tab, and name it xxx.mpeg
3. in the video codec choose what you want, mpeg2 mpeg2 mpeg4 etc
4. video bitrate is just that, what you want your output to be in k/sec for the video quality. You choose what you want, lower numbers = smaller file size and less video quality
5. if you want to calculate the best bit rate use the bitrate calculator, and you have to know all the info on the .vob you loaded such as how man min the video is etc. of if you know you want that .vob to be say 20megs type in 20 megs and then push SIZE - it will give you a calculated rate
6. Video parameters are what you want the output size to be. again important to know what the source is.

NOTE: there are presets which will load generic values for certain methods using the QUICK PRESETS tab. dont know if .vob to .mpeg is in there but it may be

In the audio tab

you get all the audio choices you want for the sound to be
choose what you want .mp3 .mp2 and the rates.

the other tabs give you options about what you want to do with the file thats made, if anything.
choose what you want
click encode
and off you go

thats the guts of it. The most impoartant part is FRAME RATE really, if you dont pick the same as the source, it will be all off sync.

use the ffmpegx page to read about the rest, it would take forever to retype it all and its all spelled out on the page.

best bet is to just try it with something small and learn by experience.

[Percy Dovetonsils]

Thanks so much-will mess around with this and let you know what happens.

[galactica]

excellent. dont forget, there's a ffempgx forum that may address questions you may have.

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=35

[Percy Dovetonsils]

excellent. dont forget, there's a ffempgx forum that may address questions you may have.

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=35

Galactica-

Tried this and it seems to have worked-
1 thing though-i ended up with so many different parts!
3 different MPEG versions of the vob i transcoded (is that a word?)
a .bin file
a .cue file

all the mpegs seems to work-they are all of my vob but all of varying sizes (?!)

actually 1 is a mpeg and the others ended up being mpeg.mpg....

thanks for the help-I'm pretty excited I got this to work.Now i can take my set top created dvd's and mail quicktime movies to people...

[galactica]

Galactica-

Tried this and it seems to have worked-
1 thing though-i ended up with so many different parts!
3 different MPEG versions of the vob i transcoded (is that a word?)
a .bin file
a .cue file

Ok, well you must have had some extra Tools turned on still, in this case author as VCD or SVCD. a .bin is simply a disk image that contains a muxed mpeg file within it. Mostly used for packaging so that it can easily be burned.

.cue is associated with the .bin file. this is what you would use to burn the .bin file. Its a "linker" file if you will.
To watch the .bin, download or open Video Lan Client, drag the .cue to the VLC icon (looks like a road work orange cone) and it will start playing the .bin associated with the .cue.

all the mpegs seems to work-they are all of my vob but all of varying sizes (?!)

again, you must have had some post encoding splitting or something checked that took the .mpeg file you made from the .vob and processed it further.

actually 1 is a mpeg and the others ended up being mpeg.mpg....

thats ok, these are the "temp files" that were made during the endocoding process. If your satisfied with one, keep that and toss the rest.

thanks for the help-I'm pretty excited I got this to work.Now i can take my set top created dvd's and mail quicktime movies to people...

Great!