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How do I convert home movie DVDs to MPEG-2 files?

Asked by Aaron Whitehouse

My video camera creates DVDs. That is great if you want to just put them into a DVD player and go, but makes life really difficult if you want to play/edit them on a Gnu/Linux system.

As I understand things, DVDs store the video in VOB files that are essentially MPEG2 files. Therefore, I should be able to convert the VOBs into MPEG2 without losing quality. Is that correct?

Is there some utility/GStreamer pipeline that will allow me to set the machine up once to work for DVDs and create a folder of MPEG2 files of the same quality? Then I could use the MPEG2 files in PiTiVi etc. without having to set the machine up to bypass DVD issues.

Any suggestions?

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

Hello

Yes you can do that with Avidemux

To install avidemux,

you need to have extra repositories enabled..
To enable all the software repositories do ref this link..

http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/sources

after getting all the required repositories enabled

Type the following command in a terminal (applications -> accessories -> terminal)

sudo aptitude install avidemux

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

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Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse) said : 		#2

Thank you very much.

I found that http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/226677 also provided a lot of assistance.