[kyles_mac]

This is a pretty dumb question, I suppose but I am a newbie when it comes to this stuff.


A couple of friends of mine made a short film and one of them put it on DVD for us. I've been trying to use Handbrake (the newest version) to put the file on my computer. It starts off fine but then after maybe about 3 minutes it says it is done but when I open the file it's only about 10 seconds long. I don't change any of the settings except the file type (avi with mp3 audio) and make it a Xvid instead of ffmpeg. I usually change the target size to 700 but I tried it with the nromal bitrate and the 700 meg but both times it still did the same thing.


Can someone please help me out .. somehow?! I would really appreciate any help.

[Uncle Skeleton]

Copy the files off the disc and combine them with 'cat' in the terminal (or any file joining tool):

type cat followed by a space, drag all the .vob files into the terminal window, type > and a space, then type output.vob

Then use the output.vob file in your home folder to compress

[kyles_mac]

Since my friend split the files, much like you would on a regular DVD with a VIDEO_TS folder, do I just copy the entire folder? Then combine just the vob files into one..?

[Uncle Skeleton]

yes

[kyles_mac]

It didn't work. I found after I tried to manually copy the files over and using MacTheRipper that somehow one of the files was corrupted (or something of that nature) yet the DVD plays fine. So, I am going to assume that I won't be able to copy it over successfully.