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Converting .TS files for iTunes
Hooblue
04-10-2008
Hi folks,

I've got a number of films on my hard drive which I'd like to convert to be able to play via iTnes (and put on my iPod).

Currently each film is in a seperate folder and is made up of a number of files called things such as VIDEO_TS, VTS_01_1.VOB and VTS_02_0.BUP. Each film is made up of about 15-20 of these files. The films play fine through WMP but not iTunes. Does anyone know of a way to convert them to MP4 so that I can stick them on my iPod?
stevenoon
04-10-2008
Could Handbrake do the job?
Hooblue
04-10-2008
Originally Posted by stevenoon:
“Could Handbrake do the job?”


Cheers! This seems to be working (albeit slowly!)
stevenoon
04-10-2008
No worries - happy to help.

Unfortunately it's a bit slow for me too - I guess it's the nature of re/encoding video - I've only got a Celeron 2.8 Ghz single core but with 2GB memory - it take about 2 1/2 hours to convert an average film DVD for my iPod Touch so I usually pick one to do overnight every night while I'm asleep.

Steve.
koantemplation
04-10-2008
Originally Posted by Hooblue:
“Hi folks,

I've got a number of films on my hard drive which I'd like to convert to be able to play via iTnes (and put on my iPod).

Currently each film is in a seperate folder and is made up of a number of files called things such as VIDEO_TS, VTS_01_1.VOB and VTS_02_0.BUP. Each film is made up of about 15-20 of these files. The films play fine through WMP but not iTunes. Does anyone know of a way to convert them to MP4 so that I can stick them on my iPod?”

Try Vob2mpg

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/VOB2MPG

and then an mpg to ipod convert.
steveOooo
04-10-2008
i have a powerbook g4, 1.67ghz, 2gb ram com and it took 2.2 days to do teh simpsons movie only to find it was ll out of sync, plue mpg stream clips playback of vobs is poor - blocks appearing everywhere.
want it so that the vobs look good on a 17' monitor and a ipod touch size screen - im using h264 with all the added pass throughs, will try again with just one pass through.
Hooblue
04-10-2008
Originally Posted by stevenoon:
“No worries - happy to help.

Unfortunately it's a bit slow for me too - I guess it's the nature of re/encoding video - I've only got a Celeron 2.8 Ghz single core but with 2GB memory - it take about 2 1/2 hours to convert an average film DVD for my iPod Touch so I usually pick one to do overnight every night while I'm asleep.

Steve.”

Same here, Pentium 4 3.0Ghz with 2GB ram. Took about 3hrs to do Rainman this morning. Works fine in iTunes tho, sync'ed fine and decent picture. Need to try it on the iPod now though.

Currently using WinFF to convert some avi's to MP4 too, although that seems to be going even slower!
frasera
05-10-2008
multicore is faster. stuff like handbrake flys with multicore
frasera
05-10-2008
Originally Posted by steveOooo:
“i have a powerbook g4, 1.67ghz, 2gb ram com and it took 2.2 days to do teh simpsons movie only to find it was ll out of sync, plue mpg stream clips playback of vobs is poor - blocks appearing everywhere.
want it so that the vobs look good on a 17' monitor and a ipod touch size screen - im using h264 with all the added pass throughs, will try again with just one pass through.”

you can't really do both well.
to look good on a 17" monitor you'd encode at 640x480. but 320x240 is good enough for perfect video on an ipod. slightly in between for a touch. 640x480 playback on an ipod has gotta rape its battery life. and of course uses quite a bit of space as well. a g4 is too slow to encode h264 which is the problem. a modern processor would have completed that encode in a fraction of that time.
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