For completely legal & legitimate usage only, but I am trying to find a good, tried and tested DVD to AVI package for MAC OSX. I've had a look online and frankly there are hundreds. Tried a couple and stumbled across a variety of glitches. Just want someone to say "I use X and it's available Y and I recommend it as it does as it says on the tin!" Much appreciated - thanks!
Thanks, downloaded it and testing it now. Seems to be ok, however AppleTV hasn't liked (even a hacked one) anything I have produced thus far. I can get the iMac showing the film no problem on Quicktime or VLC, but nowt via iTunes (get audio only). Bah, must check the settings and what is best for AppleTV...
Edit* Resolved. I was asking for and avi file and it was coming out MP4, but not recognised as a movie file. Thus, another software glitch me thinks! Reinstallation of said software later and we are cooking with gas. Now to convert 700 DVDs before Christmas :noooo:
I hate sitting waiting for the bloody things to stop & start, moving from one app to the other. It may not seem like it but I really do have other things to be doing with my life lol
I find that some things (for example the Xbox 360) won't recognise MP4 files as videos unless they're named .m4v (.mp4 is an audio extension, apparently). Hope that helps you reduce the movie conversion a step.
Thanks for that. I decided to convert them to avi files. Now I have hit another small snag I'm using an iMac and DVD2oneX2, plus Fairmount (to mount the DVD so it appears as a drive), then Handbrake to convert from a .VOB file to .AVI format in readiness for USB drive attached to my hacked Apple TV. However, the vast majority of films are ok, but a few are causing problems. Certain films, such as WALL E (my sons, not mine) are throwing up issues. It's dual layer, but I didn't think it was a problem but the chapter order is messed around when I create the VOB file. When I checked it before conversion it jumped around from scene to scene. Another problem was with Planet of the Apes (Tim Burton version). Perfectly fine until I checked the entire film and discovered that there was an audio commentary through it. I thought I must have checked the wrong box on Handbrake so I tried again, but nope! Any ideas or am I hitting security issues? BTW I own all of these films and I am merely doing this to be able to use the files on an Apple TV hacked to run ATVFlash. Any one got any ideas?
If you're going to show them on a Apple TV you should just convert them to MP4/M4V files. AVI is just a container format, so it could contain any number of different codecs. Since you are using handbrake you are encoding it into the H.264 codec with an AVI container. If you use the m4v or mkv formats, you get some neat stuff like the ability to have multiple audio tracks. Anyway, to try and answer your questions: For WALL-E, you may just have to re-rip the disc. I've ripped the DVD myself using Handbrake and did not run into any chapter issues. As far as the audio problem, you will have to make sure you have picked the proper audio track in handbrake. English is usually the first one, but it varies from disc to disc.
Handbrake isn't necessarily h.264, and it would only output to m4v/mkv last I checked. Personally I stick to AutoGK in such situations (for me it's recently been converting raw video for upload to youtube), but admittedly that's Windows and xvid/divx so not particularly relevant. Either way, as you say, .avi is just a container, in the same way a pint glass doesn't necessarily contain a pint of Stella.
I am using a hacked Apple TV so thankfully I have a wider choice of options open to me. Wall-E - tried twice and ran into the same issue. Strange? I know you can select the particular audio track in the "Audio" tab, which I did. It still came up with the same error.
