Encoding TV shows from DVD with bookmarks...

[nzdreamer55]

I have a little project where I am taking TV series (think things like Friends, Seinfeld) that we have on DVD (owned not Netflix or other source) and am trying to convert to a compressed format (e.g. mp4) for play on my blackberry storm, blackberry curve, and ipod for keeping the wife calm on our winter travels via airplane. Right now I have windows based computers (XP and Vista) and use itunes for the ipod file management. The blackberry management is simple drag and drop from my computer.

I realize there are many ways to do this so let me tell you where I have been so you have a starting point of where to suggest I go (hopefully not the H.E.double hockey sticks).

I don't have any problem with getting the VOB files from the DVD's to a hard drive. I am using DVD43 for decrypting and 1click DVD Copy Pro for this.

To date I have used handbrake (0.9.3) build for windows for converting to a compressed format and have settings that I am fairly happy with. I could use a different program though.

I would like to be able to create a compressed file format (e.g. mp4) file of an entire season of the show with bookmarks/chapter marks (are these different?) so that one can skip through the season and the files can be organized by entire season.

I know how to join VOB files and use VOBmerge with good success.

In an ideal world this process of combining VOB files then converting to a compressed format (.mp4) would be able to be batched process, but if you have a solution that is not automated that would be considerable too. I have posted in the newbie section as this is my first post to the forum and my searches seem to only turn up slightly relevant issues.

I am sure that this info is on the forum somewhere and would be happy with just a reply as to where to look if a more in depth response isn't available.

Thanks you in advance.

Steve

[redwudz]

nzdreamer55, Do not post the same topic on several forums.
Please do not cross post, once is enough.

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