Mac OSX .ogm DVD Burning

[DarkAlex]

I've been out of the DVD game for quite a while now. Bought a Mac, settled down, lived a nice, quiet, aesthetically pleasing life. But now my harddrive has filled up, so I need to get back to work.

Thing is, I lost most of the authentic, legitimately purchased DVDs that I legally backed up onto my computer in a fight with a rogue crocodile, and I'd like to reburn them as video DVDs instead of Data DVDs (my current solution). As I understand it, I'll need some manner of DVD authoring program to do this, and something else to make them into something the DVD authoring program understands.

From what I remember, there is an Audio_TS and a Video_TS folder on any given video DVD. I've noticed that VLC, my media player of choice for OSX, has the option to dump the stream as something.ts. I'm assuming this is some kind of a video/audio dump into the correct kind of package for DVD burning, though I have no proof.

Is there an easier way to do it? Is the VLC way even a possibility? Assuming I manage to transfer my 2 subtitle, 1 audio .ogm files into MPEG1/DVD format somehow, what should I use to burn them to DVD?

Thanks for any help. ~ Ciao!

PS. I have very little experience with command line based Mac OSX. Use short words and pretend I ride the short bus prz. kbai!

[Blue_MiSfit]

Try ffmpegX, it's very handy.

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Thing is, I lost most of the authentic, legitimately purchased DVDs that I legally backed up onto my computer in a fight with a rogue crocodile, and I'd like to reburn them as video DVDs instead of Data DVDs (my current solution).
Oh my, hope you didn't lose anything more valuable, such as essential body parts ;)

As I understand it, I'll need some manner of DVD authoring program to do this, and something else to make them into something the DVD authoring program understands.
Yes, you'll need to convert the video to MPEG-2 PS (with encoding parameters within DVD limits) and the audio track needs to be AC3, DTS or MP2 = MPEG-1 layer 2 (or PCM, but you don't want that).

From what I remember, there is an Audio_TS and a Video_TS folder on any given video DVD. I've noticed that VLC, my media player of choice for OSX, has the option to dump the stream as something.ts. I'm assuming this is some kind of a video/audio dump into the correct kind of package for DVD burning, though I have no proof.
VLC's .ts is MPEG-TS, a transport stream. That is not what you want to put on a DVD-video disc. I think VLC is also capable of writing MPEG-PS files, but there are tools better suited for that task. FFmpegX is probably one of them, although I'm not personally familiar with it. Avidemux could also be worth taking a look at.

[DarkAlex]

I actually have ffmpegX, I just couldn't get it to recognize the .ogm container. Turns out that I had a historical version of ffmpegX. Now I've updated and it recognizes the format.

Thanks for the help guys!

[DarkAlex]

I wrote that yesterday around this time, but it was only today that I actually made it work. And by work, I mean I've got it churning away and it *might* even be working. I shall find out tomorrow morning.

Tip for those who come after: One thing that took me a little while to figure out is that you have to unclick the "Use Quicktime to decode" box and click the "Use mplayer to Decode" box instead. My Quicktime can't handle .ogm, so it doesn't work for decoding and throws an "Uh, can't open this" insta-error when I try to decode with those settings.

I also found copy of Titanium Toast v8.0 on the discount rack at the local Superfresh, so I'm going to use that to burn whatever ffmpegX puts out, and be on my way. Thanks again guys, ciao!