Vob's, Avi's & Video_TS folders....

[SPORTSGUY88]

Yah, I hear you. I guess I'm a little behind in upgrading. I do have a newer imac that I love!

I did what you suggested, same message. Playback prohibted by area limitations. Not meant to be I suppose. Also, does it matter that some of my files are .wmv and I get an error message about not having flip4mac pro or some message.

Also, I don't have the mpeg-2 playback component, does that effect anything. In other words, I will not be able to do anything with that file without the component. I get a nasty message telling me so. It seems I should be able to use another app to convert it into something I could then burn, no?

[rumplestiltskin]

Do a google search for "flip4mac" and youll see where you may download it for free. That will take care of enabling QT (and apps that use QT) to work with ".wmv" files.

The MPEG2 component is used to decode MPEG2 files; if you wanted to transcode an MPEG2 file to MP4 with MPEG Streamclip, for example, the MPEG2 component will permit this. VLC has one built-in so it can play MPEG2 files. Apple's DVD Player also has it but it's only active for that app. If you want to use Handbrake to rip a DVD, it requires that VLC be in the same folder (usually both should be installed in the Applications folder) and then it will use VLC's components to help it overcome the DRM included in many commercial DVDs; Handbrake also uses VLC's MPEG2 component to decode the VOBs.

If you can upload one of those videos (or know where I can download it), PM me the link and I'll give it a shot.

[SPORTSGUY88]

Hey - I already have flip4mac, just get this odd notice of it not being pro or some such.

Anyway, after 4+days and endless hours of trying to figure this (your help included), I had a breakthrough late last night. I dropped one of my files into ffmpegx and had it encode it to the file it defaults to (avi divx) checked to make sure it was changing it to NTSC and let it do it's own thing. I then dropped that file back in to ffmegx and encoded that to DVDffmpeg-made sure it was encoding it to DVD (video tab) and let it go.

This created a folder and within that folder was VIDEO_TS & AUDIO_TS folders. Took the VIDEO_TS folder and dropped that baby into Toast and it worked! Did 4 very different files and they all worked. YIPPEE!

Last battle is figuring out how to put two episodes of the same show onto the same DVD. Each has it's own VIDEO_TS folder. Any suggestions with that. This was in my original help question at the beginning of this subject. If they're both an .avi file, does any of the apps we discussed combine them to create one VIDEO_TS folder or?

Thanks again for help and input. Trial & error sometime does work.

[tomlee59]

The normal method is to use an authoring tool to produce a DVD with each episode as a separate title.

If you don't mind being abnormal, you can join the two avi versions together (assuming that they are encoded in exactly the same way), and then convert that to DVD-compliant MPEG2. The result is that the second episode will start to play right after the end of the first. You won't be able to get to the second episode through a menu; it'll have to be through fast-forwarding. The only advantage of this method is that it uses only the tools you've already, um, mastered.

[SPORTSGUY88]

tomlee59:

I don't mind abnormal. But, what would the normal way of doing consist of?

Thanks.

[pixel zombie]

dvd2onex2 will combine multiple video_ts folders