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[kingandy]

I currently have Lost Season 4 sitting on my hard disk waiting to be watched (I know, I'm behind the times). These twelve episodes take up slightly more than 11GB of space. Recent adventures have demonstrated that there is no real valid reason for this - batelf got most of Heroes S3 on about half of an 8GB ram stick.

Apparently I downloaded them in some strange moon-format - VOB, which is readable directly by my DVD-playing software, leading me to believe they are a file format designed to be burned straight to Video-DVD or something. This seems like a pointless stage to me, and I would rather simply convert them to a more compact format which - importantly - my XBox will be able to read directly from my hard disk.

I tried hunting for software on t'internets but wouldn't you just know it, VOB-MPEG conversion seems to be one of those areas that is saturated with people trying to take your money and/or offer you porn, so I am naturally wary of anything proffered in this manner.

Can anyone suggest a good, free, legal, open-source application for this sort of thing?

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[wibblefish.livejournal.com]

do you have a usb drive? 360 may play them off that if not over the network

[kingandy]

It is certainly worth a try. My 8GB drive is currently almost full of Heroes (and the X360 is indeed playing off it), but I could probably try it out with one or two episodes.

I suspect the box will only play VOB off a DVD, reasoning that there's no legitimate reason for storing your videos on any other medium in this format.