Video_TS to SVCD

[Dennis R. Cohen]

On 3/2/03 at 2:27 AM, Charles Martin <chasm at mac.com> transmitted the
following electronic message:

>
>A client of mine has asked me to create a set of SVCD discs based on 
>material he supplied me from his home-created DVD (he no longer has the 
>original project files).
>
>So what I have now is two folders: AUDIO_TS (empty) and VIDEO_TS (about 
>4 gigs of stuff, mostly .VOB files). I can play the material in QT Pro 
>just fine.
>
>I've made plenty of SVCDs from MPEG-2 files, but not from a "ripped" 
>DVD.
>
>If there's a procedure to do this, I'd be grateful to hear it (or if 
>there's a URL that describes this process for Macs, just point me to 
>it). I know my way around most of the OS X tools for this, but I don't 
>have Cleaner 6 if this is an issue. If you think it's too dull for list 
>consumption, please email me off-list.
>
>Thank you!!

Chas:

Get ffmpegx (Version Tracker has it). One of the formats it reads is
VOB. There are presets to transcode to SVCD (PAL) and SVCD (NTSC).
Simple, relatively quick, and freeware.

--Dennis Cohen
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