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Hello all,

I am looking for some help.
I have a MacBook Air and I am trying to download family videos from DVD to my hard-drive to watch and save.

I can view the videos, but when I download the files from the DVD to my computer I end up with a "video TS" file which contains many "BUP", "INFO", and "VOB" files.

All of these are unplayable as far as I can tell.

I have tried to import these files to iVideo, but it doe snot seem to work.

Any and all help is much appreciated!

Thank you!
John
 

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Grab VLC.

Just point it to the video_ts folder.
 
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I would recommend ripping the DVDs to the hard drive using HandBrake. It will give you a single file which you can play, import into iTunes, and even sync to an iPod/iPad. It will also allow you to reduce the file size of each video to something more manageable since space is usually at a premium on a MBA.

I'd also recommend downloading VLC player. It's a must have because it plays just about every file type out there.
 
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You can also try Cinematize, which transcodes the DVD to quicktime files, even divided by chapters.
cheers,
 

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