Help me, techies! I want to make a dvd recorded from tv into a wmp file.

August 12, 2006 4:57 PM

Help me, techies! I want to make a dvd recorded from tv into a wmp file.

Excuse me if I show my lack of technical ability, but here's my problem.

I recently bought a Samsung DVD-R130 to use with my tv. In anticipation of new laws making it legal to record from tv, I would like to know how to take the recorded dvd and make it into a wmp or some other file that will play on my Toshiba Gigabeat and my computer.

When I put the dvd in my computer it shows one folder called DVD_RTAV. In that folder are three files with names (grey text) (size) : VR_MVGR (Backup File of the IFO) (20KB); VR_MVGR (DVD Movie Info) (20KB); VR_MOVIE.VRO (VRO File) (1,622,866 KB).

Does anyone know if and how I can do this and with what (preferably free) software?

Thanks in advance!

posted by Lucie to Technology (3 answers total)

You might want to drop it in SUPER and see if it recognizes it.
posted by bim at 5:36 PM on August 12, 2006

On a PC, TMPGenc will convert the VRO file into MPG. Windows movie maker should be able to convert the MPG into WMP. I don't know if there's a one step process out there but if you have a mac, ffmpegx might do it.
posted by drmarcj at 5:41 PM on August 12, 2006

I pulled up short on this question twice, until I looked and saw you were in Oz.

VCR's aren't legal there?

Wow.

If the DVD's it burns are playable by a standard DVD player, then you could probably use DVD Decrypter (which has been yanked, but is findable on the web, or I have a copy) to extract the video, and VirtualDub or Mencoder to translate it from MPEG2 to WMV.
posted by baylink at 6:54 PM on August 13, 2006