Thank you. I hade discovered MPEG Streamclip when playing around with this. It will do it! What I had not done is "fix the timecode" which enabled the whole long DVD to be viewed and converted.
However, an MPEG-4 version which I was going for will tie up the conputer for a day! Andrew On 17 February 2010 08:58, Mark Schofield <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Before converting the disc try to see if you can extract the entire > contents to your Mac's hard-drive using any of these applications: > > Mactheripper > > Ripit > > Fairmount (and VLC) > > It is much easier to work with video files once they are off the disc > I find. > > Then set to work on the disc with either of: > > Handbrake > > MPEG Streamclip > > All the best, > Mark > > Mark Schofield, Hove > > > On Feb 17, 7:13 am, Andrew Tett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi there... > > > > We have a number of DVD-RAM recordings done on a Panasanic Recordable DVD > > machine. They are of programmes that we recorded that we want to keep. > > Does anyone know of a way of converting the video content, say, to "m4v"? > > > > I have a number of conversion programmes on my Mac but the best I seem to > be > > able to get is about 20 minutes of the video converted. There are > several > > hours on the disc in total. It seems to play one of the recording > present > > in the "vro" file on the disc (which contains the video) but not all. > > > > The disc will not play at all as a DVD on the computer. The Firewire > drive > > that I use will read DVD-RAM. > > > > Andrew > > (Shoreham) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <smug%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
