DVD to mp4

[PanosK]

Hello to everyone,

I have to say first of all this is a fantastic site, by far the best resource for working with videos. Also, I have to apologize in advance if what I'm asking is obvious/covered, I've spent a lot of time trying to find an answer and couldn't, so I would really appreciate a bit of help.

I've been trying to transfer a few DVDs to my Apple TV. With the help of this site I've started using Handbrake and I had great results with it, still reading around I realized that this is not optimum as it transcodes the picture resulting in quality loss. As a result, I've looked into "muxxing" my way through. I've downloaded VOB2MPG and used it to get an .mpg file from the dvd that contains a much bigger (and not changed) mpeg1/2 video and AC3 & LPCM sound.

The question is simple: is there a way to "wrap" this with an mp4 container, thus manage to play it with my Apple TV?

thanks in advance, sorry if this sounds trivial, cheers!

Panos

[PanosK]

To note that I've tried using Mp4box GUI and avidemux to achieve that with no luck.

[budwzr]

".MP4" is associated with AVC/AAC, so you're going to have to Xcode.

[PanosK]

Thank you for your answer, understood, it's a codex thing right: you need to move to h264 for the mp4 to work I guess, thanks for confirming that!