How do I convert .VOB files to play on a home DVD player

[jmabie]

I'm a DVD ripping newbie

I have a new iMac G5 with a superdrive. I coppied several scenes (.VOB files) of a movie on my harddrive, and burned them on a blank DVD. The scenes play fine on my Mac, but the DVD will not work in my home DVD player

How do I burn (rip?) scenes from a commerical DVD on a blank DVD, and have it work on my home DVD player?

[galactica]

well to just do a scene or two it requires some work

basically you have to rip them over, and then reauthor them as a new dvd

you can do this by demuxing [drag drop the .vob onto bbdemux] and then take the resulting .m2v and .ac3 into sizzle to compile a new dvd image to burn
thats if you want them just as they are

if you want to edit out sections that becomes more complicated

typically we backup the entire disk rather than just parts of the movie itself

[jmabie]

Thanks. Being a newbie, I'm not sure I can do this. Where/how do I get the bbdemux and sizzle programs? Is the process idiot proof?

well to just do a scene or two it requires some work

basically you have to rip them over, and then reauthor them as a new dvd

you can do this by demuxing [drag drop the .vob onto bbdemux] and then take the resulting .m2v and .ac3 into sizzle to compile a new dvd image to burn
thats if you want them just as they are

if you want to edit out sections that becomes more complicated

typically we backup the entire disk rather than just parts of the movie itself

[galactica]

http://thegoods.ath.cx/~hmason/sizzle/ - sizzle
http://sourceforge.net/projects/macbbdemux - bbdemux

its fairly easy, just follow my tutoria [found by clicking my signature link]l as if you had svcd/vcd using m2v and .ac3

[live4ever]

Easiest would be to download ffmpegX - select Tools tab - browse for your files - choose author as DVD