Divx Converter For Mac and Vobs

[Scarpad]

I'm coming from Mainly a PC background so excuse me if I'm asking stupid questions. The Converter on the Mac needs vobs to be in .Ifo mode in order to process them. I tried Mac the Ripper on Main Title Extraction mode. It gave me the Movie vobs with the Video_TS and Titleset Ifo's but the converter is refusing them. Am I ripping them Incorrectly? Or is there another tool I could use that would be better. I'm used to DVD Decryptors Ifo Mode it's so much easier.

Thanks Guys

[igor79]

The Converter on Mac is not compatible with .vob; you can try to export with MPEGStreamClip in another format. You can do all the work with this program (crop, resize, deinterlace etc.) then save in .avi (Apple Intermediate Codec as codec);

[Scarpad]

According to the Docs and Traing PDF on the Divx site it can use Vobs as long as you rip them in Ifo Mod

[igor79]

From divx site (version 6):

DivX Converter for Mac Known Issues

* You can quit DivX Converter when the 'Custom Profile' UI is up. However, when you do, the Configure UI stays open until you dismiss it (encoding does not occur).
* It may take a few seconds for the 'Custom Profile' UI window to appear if the first movie to be converted is lengthy. This is due to the fact that the Converter needs to scan portions of the movie to configure initial settings.
* If you are converting more than one movie using the 'Custom Profile' and the first movie contains no audio, all movies will be converted without audio.
* Certain video and audio formats, such as MPEG-2 audio and video, AC3 audio, and others, are not supported by QuickTime. As such, DivX Converter cannot convert movies that use these formats.
* DivX Converter does not currently convert VOB files.
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p.s.: and doesn't recognize a simply .m2v track

[Scarpad]

From divx site (version 6):

DivX Converter for Mac Known Issues

* You can quit DivX Converter when the 'Custom Profile' UI is up. However, when you do, the Configure UI stays open until you dismiss it (encoding does not occur).
* It may take a few seconds for the 'Custom Profile' UI window to appear if the first movie to be converted is lengthy. This is due to the fact that the Converter needs to scan portions of the movie to configure initial settings.
* If you are converting more than one movie using the 'Custom Profile' and the first movie contains no audio, all movies will be converted without audio.
* Certain video and audio formats, such as MPEG-2 audio and video, AC3 audio, and others, are not supported by QuickTime. As such, DivX Converter cannot convert movies that use these formats.
* DivX Converter does not currently convert VOB files.
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p.s.: and doesn't recognize a simply .m2v track

Also from the Known issue file

What are the current known issues for DivX Converter?


Answer

VOB files must be extracted from the DVD in IFO mode to be encoded with Converter.
The progress bar may not progress smoothly when encoding some WMV files.
AC3 audio volume may be low if the settings are not adjusted. Read the AC3 low audio FAQ.
Loading files in groups onto Converter may not build the list as it's shown or sorted in Windows.
Creating files larger than 2GB may lead to playback problems on some DivX Certified devices.
Long strings entered into the metadata window may be truncated in the encoded file.
Subtitles may not look sharp when taken from a DVD with larger format subtitles.
AVS scripts may not always work with certain combinations of audio and video parameters.
Encoding a large number of files may not work when all loaded together.
No error message will appear if you try to convert a WMV file without Windows Media installed.
VOB files with navigation packets that appear before video and audio packets will not load onto Converter.
Subtitle tracks will not show up if the IFO file is not present or improperly named in the input directory of the loaded VOB files.
Progress bar may pause at 50% during encoding between first and second pass.
The MPEG-2 decoder that the DivX Converter uses will drop frames if they are detected as corrupted. This may lead to audio/video sync issues.
The MPEG-2 decoder that the DivX Converter uses does not work well in hyperthreaded environments and Converter will limit itself to one CPU while this is being used.
Files with a large audio delay, either positive or negative, may have audio/video sync issues.
Long path and filenames may get cut off in certain dialogue windows.


Is this not for the Mac version , maybe this is a PC only answer but the web site makes no differentiation.

[Blue_MiSfit]

ffmpegX is an AWESOME and screamin' fast program.

It uses libavcodec, is multithreaded, and has both AltiVec optimization and Intel native code for the mactels.

Using x264 through this is frighteningly fast, especially compared to Apple's H.264 codec...

a 20 minute show I did took ~ 3 hours to go from DV to Apple H.264 and AAC. on a 1.6 GHz G5.

On a MacPro 2.66 using ffmpegX to take the same file and go to x264 / AAC took under 5 minutes. Wow.

~MiSfit