WINDVD4 problem I ripped a dvd and was able to open the "video_ts" file by double clicking it and WINDVD4 would open and start playing. I then moved the data files to a new folder and now WINDVD4 will not open.....but I am able to open the file using Windows Media Player...... I reinstalled WINDVD4 but have the same situation. It is an OEM product with the serial number. Any suggestions ?? Thank you for your help

DVDs contain folders and files which are specially developed for DVD players and not for computers.<br /> If you explore the DVD on your computer, you see on most DVDs the folders Video_TS and Audio_TS. The folder Audio_TS is on video DVDs empty. This folders is normally used for audio DVDs.<br /> If you open the folder Video_TS you see that the extensions of the files in it are .vob, .ifo and .bup. The .vob files are actually the .mpeg or video files and only these files contain video. The .ifo files contain information like scenes and time. The .bup files are backup files of the .ifo files. These files aren't relevant for computers.<br /> If you double click a .vob file and you do not have any DVD player installed on your computer, the computer says that it can not open the file. But there is a trick to do let your computer play this file.<br /> The trick to play this file is to copy the .vob files to a folder on your hard drive. The next thing you need to do is to change the file extension into .mpg.<br /> Do not change the name of the file but be sure you change the extension of it!<br /> If you copy the .vob file and you change the extension in .mpg, there is no guarantee that it works. This depends on the codecs you have installed on your computer. But often this trick will work.<br /> So what is the solution if the above doesn't work? The following I will show you <a href="http://www.freedvdripper.org/dvdvideoguide/how-to-rip-a-dvd.html">how to rip a dvd</a>.<br /> Step 1: Download <a href="http://www.freedvdripper.org/">best free dvd ripper</a> and running it. click "Add". It supplies four ways to load files:<br /> Step 2: Select output Profile<br /> You can select one output format you want to rip a DVD as below.<br /> Step 3: Edit the Video<br /> If you want to customize the video, Wondersahre DVD Ripper offers a powerful video editing function, including cropping video, setting the video effects, trimming movie, even customizing personal watermark.<br /> Step 4: Start to rip a DVD<br /> After you select the output format and edit the video(option), all you need to do is clicking the "Start" button. Then you can get a cup of coffee and come back later to check if the conversion is finished. Furthermore, this DVD Ripper even offers the option to automaticlly shut down the computer when the conversion completed.<br /> Now, you must get the idear how to rip a dvd. Enjoy it!<br /> Related topic: <a href="http://www.freedvdripper.org/dvdvideoguide/how-to-rip-copyrighted-dvd.html">How to rip DVD on Mac</a>.<br />

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TS format is one of the HDTV (high-definition) video format, the video quality is joyful, but TS video is not accepted widely by portable devices (iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune...) or multimedia players such as QuickTime.
So, If you want to put a TS Video to your iPod, TS Video to iPhone,TS Video to PSP... and so on players, or you get some problems in putting TS video files (HD video), taken by our digital cameras or downloaded from Blue-Ray DVD, to your mobile players or playing them with Quicktime on your Mac,you need this wondershare Mac Video Converter.
Here is a step by step guide on how to converter TS video for Mac:
Step 1: Add TS Video Files to TS Converter for Mac on MAC OS X
Click the Add button, and the program will let you browse your computer hard drive. Then select the TS videos you want to convert and click 'OK'.
Step 2: Output Settings for TS video on Mac
Select an output format from the Format Drop-down List. Just select an format according to the player which you want to put your video/audio on.
Step 3: Conversion for ts video on Mac
Click the 'Start' button to start the conversion.

Addtional Tips:
1: If you want to convert all the added TS video files into one format with the same encoding parameters, you can just click the "Apply to All" button.
2: You can check the "Merger into one file" option to convert all the added TS video files into a single file.
3: Click the Settings button to set encoding settings including video resolution, frame rate, bit rate and video encoder, audio encoding settings including sample rate, channel, bit rate and audio encoder.
4: Click the Browse button to specify an output folder to save the converted files.
5: If you want to edit your TS video, you can switch to the Mac Video Converter official user guide for more details.
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HDTV DVD Combo features a built-in slot-loading DVD player, which provides an optimum way to save space. With the slim profile, it’s really an amazing experience to watch favorites TV shows and DVD movies on this device in your bedroom. But if your TV only has a standard DVD player but not the Blu-ray disc player, what is your solution to play Blu-ray movies on it? I'd like to know your ideas. I believe my way is somewhat helpful, just convert BD to a DVD format, and then burn it to a blank DVD for playback on the TV/DVD Combo, so share it here, and also be glad to hearing from you guys.

The software I used is as below:
- (http://www.pavtube.com/blu-ray-ripper/ ) Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper
- (http://www.videohelp.com/tools/ReJig) ReJig (freeware)
- (http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/ImgBurn/1128426215/) ImgBurn(freeware)

HOW-TO:
Part 1:
Firstly, use Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper to remove copy protections of Blu-ray movies, and meanwhile convert it to the DVD vob format.
1. Run Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper and click "DVD Rom", "DVD Folder" or "IFO/ISO" to load Blu-ray movies. Generally speaking, the file with the longest duration time would be the main movie, if you just need back up the main movie, tick off this one only.
Each file will be checked by default after imported, right click on any one of the files, and then there will be a popup window to let you uncheck all, just do it, and afterwards to tick off the checkbox before the file you need converted.

2. Click on the drop-down menus after "Subtitle" and "Audio" respectively to select your required languages and sound effect.
3. Select VOB as output format and specify destination folder
Click on the pull down list of "Format" to select VOB as output format and click on the folder icon at the opposite side of "Output" to specify destination folder.

4. Customize output settings
The popup window will allow you to adjust audio and video parameters including codec, bit rate, aspect ratio, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels to optimize the output file quality.

5. Click on "Convert" button to start BD ripping
Once finished, you can find out the output files via clicking on "Open" button with ease.

Part 2:
Then use ReJig to do DVD authoring.

It's pretty simple with ReJig. Press "File Mode"; add your vob files and Demux.

When it's finished, close that box and then select DVD Author. Add the video and audio files you've just created, and choose output destination folder, and click Create.

After DVD authoring is completed, you can open the destination folder to see that the output files are AUDIO-TS and VIDEO-TS folders, which are the correct structure for DVD burning.

Part 3:
Use ImgBurn to burn DVD
We have got VIDEO-TS folder in part two, so the DVD burning process with ImgBurn is pretty simple. Here give you two links to check the detailed steps:
(http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=4632 ) How to write DVD Video files directly to single layer media using ImgBurn (DVD±R/RW)
(http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=4643) How to write a DVD Video double layer disc using ImgBurn (Verbatim DVD+R DL) – just check the contents that start from adding VIDEO-TS folder of this guide.
The end! Hope this helps.