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kingandyI 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 - ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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?
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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Date: 2009-02-19 01:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-20 10:23 am (UTC)I've only managed to drop the filesize by about 10% (and I am still considering burning the files to DVD directly) but at least I'll be able to watch it on the XBox in the meantime.
Quick question ... do you know anything about compiling multiple VIDEO_TS folders into a single DVD?
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Date: 2009-02-20 06:46 pm (UTC)I guess you can only have one VIDEO_TS folder on one DVD. But...
DVDShrink, which I normally use just for copying a DVD, also has some re-authoring options for creating a new DVD compilation using the titles and chapters of other VIDEO_TS folders (on your hard drive or on other available DVDs). I don't know how one would set up menus or anything though, but I'm sure other tools exist for that.