Oswald the Lucky Rabbit DVD files without a DVD Help.............

[andythebeagle]

I've been given some old hard drives that have DVD files of cartoons on them and would like to convert them to AVI so I can cut and edit as individual videos. What is the best program for doing it?? Never messed with DVD s at all, ever and have no clue. The only thing I know is I can play them on VLC, MPC or Mplayer, but when I try to open them in any video software, they just won't.

Makes me a sad beagle

[hech54]

VOB2MPEG will make one, giant MPEG2 file out of the DVD.

[jman98]

Not enough info. The rips might be half-assed and the dummy who ripped them just ripped the VOBs and got rid of the IFOs. Your definition of opening them in "any software" might mean you tried 2 programs that are inappropriate for what you have to work with and gave up when neither worked.

VideoReDo and MPEGVCR could most likely handle the files, but neither is free.

hech54's suggestion is probably the best way to get whatever you have into something you can easily work with.

[andythebeagle]

I gotta say it again, I'm new to this and haven't a clue about what I'm doin'.

I only started messin' with these yesterday afternoon. I realized I needed to separate these out, into individual videos for processing and doing further work with. Programs to do that with needed a "certain" format such as AVI. I just sort of quit what I was doing and started crying to you guys. Today, I finally opened my email and had some suggestions. Usually, when I get suggestions I then have a starting place to research from. That happened with this also. Come to find out, the format this was in lent itself to HandBrake and FFcoder among others. Now, that bein' said, I do have a question about cutting and preserving. There are a lot of thingys that will cut, I just don't know how to use them. I want to save that which I cut. I only know how to throw them away.

[theewizard]

what are the "FILE EXTENSIONS" of the files you want to work with

mpeg, mpeg2, vob, TS ??

this is what we are asking

must know the file type before the correct program can be suggested

[andythebeagle]

They were vob and I was cryin' out prematurely. That's what I do best at times. Actually ended up using Vidcoder and FFcoder. Worked just fine with the exception of separating the individual videos. Decided to leave them alone and just ended up doing a convert to MKV x264 once they were out of the vob format.

[jagabo]

Mpeg2cut2

[sanlyn]

So you re-encode lossy MPEG2 to lossy X264, want to "edit" and re-encode yet again? I'd suggest something, but seeing as how you're not paying attention and won't answer questions, it seems like a waste of time. Proceed as you are doing, then come back later when you see the results. If they look OK to you, problems solved. But I can offer this bit of information now: you're degrading whatever original quaility your "DVD" had.