Posted on 10/08/2004 12:51:27 PM PDT by Roger from TI
I have a US Army Ranger 1/75 Ranger Regiment Association 30 year reunion DVD that I wish to put on my personal website and the 75thrra.org website.
The problem is that I don't know how to convert it from a DVD to the web and still have a quality video.
Any suggestions?
If this is very difficult task, I'd be willing to pay someone to do this for me, at a reasonable price. Please advise.
Thank You.
Ranger Roger Brown
Can you guys help?
get a suite of free tools called gordian knot (do a google search) and use it to convert the .vob files to .avi (can get quite large). Once you have converted to .avi then use windows media encoder (do a goole search for windows media tools) to convert to .wmv for broadcast. You can either broadcast live using encoder or convert to .wmv for later showing. There ya have it.
Thanks. Sounds easy.
It is not to terribly difficult. First, your computer must have a program that will capture the DVD video and convert it to a web format such as .mpeg or .wmv. If you have a DVD recorder on your computer, then you have a program that will do it.
Next, capture the video, edit it as you like and assemble it to be as you like it and then save as .mpeg or .wmv. I would save it as several files because video files get large very quickly. Now upload to your site and paste links and such.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gordianknot
get the rip pack. Codec not needed for what you are doing. If you ever want divx get the codec pack too.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx
Here is the media encoder. If you are o.k. with computers, you should have minimal problem.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx
Here is the media encoder link. Pretty simple.
Thanks everyone. You're awesome!
Okay, first off: are there any copyright issues involved? If so, you'll want to get those resolved PDQ. The reason why is that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act has some seriously warped penalties for making 'net-ready copies of copyrighted DVD materials.
The problem is that I don't know how to convert it from a DVD to the web and still have a quality video.
That's a solution that doesn't come cheap. There are fair-to-middlin' video converters that you can buy for your computer that will convert DVD and/or VHS playback to a 320x240 MPEG or AVI movie file, but the quality can be iffy at times.
Last time I checked (years ago) professional conversion from one media to another was kind of steep, but prices may have gone down with the explosion of home computer converters. So check around your town to see if any photo shops offer that service.
Hope this helps.
Dont forget DVD Decryptor
All I know is DVD Shrink works great, and you don't have to know a thing. Just install it and go.
OK. I have one for you. How can I convert a PowerPoint presentation to either VHS or DVD? I made a slideshow of my dad and would like to give a copy to my mom. She doesn't have a computer and couldn't operate it if she did. The locals shops want $150 to convert it. Is there a cheap way?
Find a computer with TV output on it's video card. If you're lucky, yours has this already. Hook the TV out to your VCR and hit record. That's the easy way.
The hard way is to use a screen capture tool to capture the presentation to an mpeg file. Then a DVD authoring tool to produce a DVD. See Huelix ScreenPlay 1.2 or similar.
A third quick and dirty way is to point a video camera at your monitor and record the presentation that way. Reults would be spotty.
You first need a program that allows you to import the video into a time line. Covert the DVD to an mpeg-1 320 by 240 VHS quality. Then download Windows media encoder and covert it to a Windows media file. Place it on a 2003 Windows server and you can do multiple bit encoding and serving. You will get similar quality to this;
http://www.cheflive.tv/images/upload_images/videos/DVD.wmv
How can I convert a PowerPoint presentation to either VHS or DVD? I made a slideshow of my dad and would like to give a copy to my mom. She doesn't have a computer and couldn't operate it if she did.
Reults = Results
I don't have a video card, but I'll see if I can find someone who does. Thanks! If I can't, I'll try the other two options.
The two programs were designed for each other
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