Extracting the Video from a "DVD-RAM" DVD

[Andrew Tett]

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)

[Mark Schofield]

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

[Andrew Tett]

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

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[Jason Davies]

if you're going to do this a lot, see if it will work with an Elgato
Turbo device. (Is your machine quite old? Newer machines tend to do
this stuff a lot quickre...)

[Andrew Tett]

Thank you to everyone for your replies.

Stream clip - what a brilliant App that is!  I have been able to use a MacBook Pro, and the time that this takes to do the task is about 6 times quicker!  It's doing it as I type.

Problem solved - thank you!

A