I am trying to convert video footage from TV (with my Topfield HD recorder) to aformat which will allow me to burn to DVD in Toast and paly on a "standard" DVD player. I'm not sure what that format is though (VOB files ?) and do they have to be arranged in a folder with name and .TS extension? If so does anyone know of a program which will do this?
convert .rev video files (as on Topfield HD recorder) to DVD format (vob? or .TS?)
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If they are VOB files, VisualHub should do the trick. It's around $25, but it's worth every cent in my opinion; I use it on a daily basis. You can download a free trial anyway, so you can see if it will do what you need it to do before buying.
There is also ffmpegX, which is a free solution. VisualHub is more or less a front-end to ffmpeg, so it should work just as well. What is handy with VisualHub is that it will set up all the VIDEO_TS folders for you, you just tell it which video files you want to place on the DVD, and it will do the rest.
Toast is also quite good with video files, have you tried just throwing the video files you want to convert into toast to see if it can do the conversion for you?
if those don't work, post back here with more info, including the file extensions of the video files you're trying to convert.
There is also ffmpegX, which is a free solution. VisualHub is more or less a front-end to ffmpeg, so it should work just as well. What is handy with VisualHub is that it will set up all the VIDEO_TS folders for you, you just tell it which video files you want to place on the DVD, and it will do the rest.
Toast is also quite good with video files, have you tried just throwing the video files you want to convert into toast to see if it can do the conversion for you?
if those don't work, post back here with more info, including the file extensions of the video files you're trying to convert.
But he talks about ".rev"-files, which sounds like a proprietary format of that specific hardware - never heard of it before. You'll have to convert these files _somehow_ to anything. Toast reads many different video formats as input and will convert them to the correct files for a standard DVD (however, the resulting quality of course depends on the input...). But you're still locked into that .rev-file format, I guess...
Mikuro
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I don't know of any apps that specifically say they can open .rev files. However, it's possible these ".rev" files are really just vobs or avis or mpegs with a different extension added. That's somewhat common.
The first thing I would do is try to play it in VLC. If it can play it, you shouldn't have much trouble converting it. If it can't play it....well, you might as well see what ffmpegX can do with it, but I doubt you'll have much luck, since all these apps are based on mostly the same tools.
The first thing I would do is try to play it in VLC. If it can play it, you shouldn't have much trouble converting it. If it can't play it....well, you might as well see what ffmpegX can do with it, but I doubt you'll have much luck, since all these apps are based on mostly the same tools.