Freeware to convert .VOB to mpg

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Hi all...anyone know of a decent freeware program I can use to convert a .vob file to mpg?

I have a music video on DVD that I want to convert. The video is of a friend, so I have his permission!

Thanks
 
Handbrake is pretty much the best out there. Not sure what sort of system you have, but it is a OSX app. It can also run on Linux iirc
 
telkomsuig...have installed autogk, but don't see how to do what I am wanting. I want to take the video that I have and make an mpg of it, small enough to post on a website such as Google videos or youtube...

Can you offer any pointers?
 
Mask said:
Hi all...anyone know of a decent freeware program I can use to convert a .vob file to mpg?

I have a music video on DVD that I want to convert. The video is of a friend, so I have his permission!

Thanks
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try VOB2MPG, well that is if you are using Windows
 
Thanks swordfish...I have managed to convert the file, but it is still to large to post (36Mb mpg from 120Mb .vob).

Any way that I can reduce this further?
 
A .VOB (video object) file is just a normal mpeg2 video file. nothing special.

To "convert" the file into something smaller (mpeg 1) you will need to encode / transcode the original file.

To get it down much more than that (30 odd meg from 120 meg) you will need to do some serious transcoding and you will obviouly lose a lot of quality.

Also be willing to take your resolution down.

I use TmpegEnc for all my software encoding/ transcoding. http://www.tmpg-inc.com/
 
To do really good quality transcoding from DVD I would suggest XviD (MPEG-4), I use all open source software for this such as NanDub and a few other utilities. The problem is getting the compression settings right but I eventually sorted that out with setting scripts and other bits and pieces
 
Yes, for good quality.

You are going from mpeg2 (DVD) to mpeg4.

But good quality is not what the original poster asked for, rather smaller file size, should still be able to do it though with the tools you mentioned, will just take some time playing with the settings.
 
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