This looks to be most impressive! Can't wait to try it.

All iget are duplicate frame errors in the command window. Then Mencoder shuts down.

Any thoughts???

If you're not trying to convert encrypted DVD's why not use the Roxio Media Manager in the new Desktop Manager 4.2 SP2. Works quite well.

WE need a HOW-TO: Video encoding for the 8300

is the Blackberry Video Coverter from softpedia able to encode full dvd's into one avi file?? It just will not work for me i've coverted a bunch of my other mpeg's from my pc with no problem though. Help!

WOW, thank you guys so much. I cranked vbitrate to 320 and my videos are completely amazing.

Ok. Well media manager works like a charm (even in Vista) for me for any normal videos but for some reason I can't get it to convert over the .tivo files. I have tried using the Direct Show Dump utility but i can't get it to work in Vista. I thought media manager was supposed to be able to just drag and drop to convert tivo files for my blackberry or am I asking too much and need to go find a different way to decode the tivo files in Vista before using media manager?

I have also tried using the Dump Show then media manager on my XP PC but the manager can't find the decoded tivo files on that one.

Please help.

Thanks for this nifty little utility, it works great. One little problem I'm having with the DVD functionality: lots of my ripped DVD's don't follow the "VTS_01_01.VOB, ...01_02.VOB, ..." format. Example, I have a movie where the video is actually in a "VTS_02_01.VOB, ...02_02.VOB, ..." list. I've even seen a few movies with a "...01_01.VOB, ...02_01.VOB, ..." list of video files. Looks like your utility is hard wired to the first type of video file list.

Also, for anyone wondering if you can use this program program on DVD's ripped to a hard drive, you can, you need to use the DOS "SUBST" command. Example, if you have a folder on your C: drive with ripped VOB files called (for example) "C:\My Movie\VIDEO_TS", you can map a drive letter from the Command Prompt as follows:

subst x: "c:\My Movie"

BBVC will then see "X:" as a DVD drive and automatically find the VOB files in the VIDEO_TS folder (VIDEO_TS is mandatory for your VOB files).

HTH.

Super (c) is really easy to handle and the video quality is good enough for my purposes... thanks for the grat help!

Im about to go crazy here, I have tried all 4 methods mentioned throughout this thread and absolutely no luck with 5 different dvd's. So im going to back to the source, the very source in my question.

Is anyone able to do any of these with Vista 64-bit, that is what my computer runs....

Please help!

ok, this is wonderful if you are using windows!! Here's the kicker... I'm running linux ubuntu. I have mplayer and i can start a terminal and do everything like you say, replace <input file name> with <BrianDoesHollywood.mpeg> and <output file name> with <BrianDoesHollywood.avi> (of course the paths are part of the filename, such as /media/sharedmedia/movies/BrianDoesHollywood) and i get an error saying that the avi file doesn't exist. When i change the .avi to .mpeg, i don't get an error, but i don't get results either... What to do?

okay this is VERY confusing.

Helped my friend Marcia Makepeace set it up. I love the way it works. Makes the Pearl feel like a real 21st century miracle - the center of my life my wife would say. What a transformation of the phone.

After installing how do I used it ???
Can any one help ???

It makes encoding a DVD so easy! OMG this frontend is the, opps, can't say that.

gchez, poke around a bit. I hadn't used it before and it's pretty intuitive.

If you continue to have issues, then make a post.

I am trying to convert Family Guy (the TV show) from the DVD's, and because the VOB files are not typical, I am only able to get the first episode using the Seabyrd software. Any help out there?

Not to familiar with programing. Would like to know what I need to insert exactly into the command string because I have tried replacing the input string with the name of the file but it keeps telling me that the file is not found. What am I suppose to replace the input and output with? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I managed to get the process and I corrected the input and output issue, but this is what I get, at the end of the process, when I do the conversion.

Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp h
eader.
Video stream: 216.651 kbit/s (27081 B/s) size: 5650086 bytes 208.633 secs 6
264 frames
Audio stream: 64.000 kbit/s (8000 B/s) size: 1673280 bytes 209.160 secs
G:\blackberry software\mplayer>

im new to programming and i dont no where im suppose to insert the codes or if i have to change the settings, this is wat it looks like when i open up mencode "C:/Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\all my things\mlayer>

from there wat i do? i try copy then paste the whole code u gave me and insert it then press enter, but it said it cant find specify file or something like that, need help pple plz i would gadly appreciated it, and also i try to super c and i cant seem to get the download connections it keep sending me bak to the same page or it just clicks down to other links..where is the real downlink link to click and open file?

I'm new here and now Im thinking about leaving this forum...It seems to me that no one truly wants to help others if that person is not programer smart . There are several post from members here that are frustated with the details of how to encode videos to BB or how to watch movies on the BB or what products are needed to add/watch movies on BB's. Basiclly what apps that you know will work ?

My thought is for those that are able to view movies on your BB, its nice huh? Well other BB owners would like that option to, with some help from other members that have successfully added movies to there BB..

I understand your frustration with this. It took me 6 times of reading through this thread back when it was only 6 pages long to figure out how to encode the video using this method. There are some other methods out there now. You can try Roxio media manager to copy videos over. Roxio will automatically convert them. However, it won't work with encrypted DVD's. That's where the information in this thread comes in. However, IMO, it's not worth the time spent to figure out how to do it using this "programming" language and then spend many hours encoding the video. By the time I had encoded the video, chased volume problems, chased audio/video problem like sound not in sync with video, I could have watched the movie on my computer.

I did a trial of this software (not free):

SlySoft CloneDVD mobile | DVD to PSP, DVD to iVideo, DVD to ZEN

It worked quite well for copying DVD's into BB format as well as iPod format. Simple to use and was quite self-explanatory. I never purchased it and the trial ran out, but it worked very well. I probably will purchase it since my daughter keeps harping on me for more movies on her iPod.

I know it's extra money spent, but for me it just wasn't worth all the extra time spent on these other methods.