{"id":746,"date":"2007-03-20T16:44:36","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T16:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/multimedia-file-format-conversions-ripping-dvds-playback-and-more.htm"},"modified":"2008-12-31T15:56:20","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T15:56:20","slug":"multimedia-file-format-conversions-ripping-dvds-playback-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/multimedia-file-format-conversions-ripping-dvds-playback-and-more.htm","title":{"rendered":"Multimedia file format conversions, ripping DVDs, playback and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I&#8217;ve had cause to convert various multimedia items between formats and it&#8217;s not always been straightforward.  I&#8217;m still learning as DRM, codecs and platform-related issues often complicate the process but this post summarises what I learned along the way with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grabbing audio content from another application.<\/li>\n<li>Trimming audio files down to a particular section.<\/li>\n<li>Converting <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FLV\">Flash video<\/a> (.FLV) files to video (as well as converting between a variety of other video formats).<\/li>\n<li>Ripping DVD content for playback on the computer.<\/li>\n<li>Playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsmedia.com\/\">Windows Media<\/a> content on a Mac.<\/li>\n<li>Playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/quicktime\/\">QuickTime<\/a> content in full-screen mode without buying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/quicktime\/pro\/\">QuickTime Pro<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I carry out most of my multimedia work on a Mac but some of these solutions will be equally applicable to Windows and possibly even to Linux users.<\/p>\n<h3>Grabbing audio content from another application<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just three words to say that will describe how I did this &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogueamoeba.com\/audiohijackpro\/\">Audio Hijack Pro<\/a> &#8211; a great application from Rogue Amoeba which takes the audio from any running application and allows it to be recorded.<\/p>\n<h3>Trimming audio files down to a particular section<\/h3>\n<p>In this scenario, I had about half an hour&#8217;s worth of audio, but only wanted to publish a section which was about 3 minutes in length. Apple QuickTime Pro will let me trim tracks, but didn&#8217;t seem to let me set the start and end points as accurately as I needed.  There is another Rogue Amoeba application that I could use for this (<a href=\"http:\/\/rogueamoeba.com\/fission\/\">Fission<\/a>) but tasks like this are pretty rare for me and I didn&#8217;t want to pay $32 for what could potentially be a single use (the demo version inserts fades into the track to encourage purchase of the full software which seems fair enough as at least it lets me try before I buy).  Instead, I used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deepniner.net\/mp3trimmer\/\">MP3 Trimmer<\/a> from Deep Niner &#8211; the interface may not be as good as Fission&#8217;s, but it&#8217;s a fully-functional demo with no time limits and registration is just $10.95 should I find myself needing to trim MP3s more often.<\/p>\n<h3>Converting Flash video (.FLV) files to video (as well as converting between a variety of other video formats)<\/h3>\n<p>I spent all afternoon yesterday trying to work this one out &#8211; I had a bunch of Flash videos which I had downloaded from a website and although I could play them using Eltima Software&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mac.eltima.com\/\">SWF and FLV Player<\/a>, I wanted to play them in <a href=\"http:\/\/clkuk.tradedoubler.com\/click?p(23708)a(1115261)g(11703474)\">iTunes<\/a>.  After searching the net for hours all roads seemed to lead to a Windows application that would convert the files to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MPEG-4_Part_14\">MPEG4<\/a> format for me (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moyea.com\/\">Moyea FLV to Video Converter<\/a>).  The demo version of this application inserts a watermark in the centre of the video (again, that&#8217;s fair enough &#8211; this is try before you buy) but as I really wanted something for my Mac I decided not to part with the $39.95.<\/p>\n<p>Later that evening, my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexcoles.com\/\">Alex<\/a> recommended <a href=\"http:\/\/perian.org\/\">Perian<\/a> to help me out with problems ripping a DVD (see below) and I found out that the Perian component for QuickTime had already been installed (probably when I had a quick look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getdemocracy.com\/\">Democracy Player<\/a> a few weeks back) so QuickTime could already play back my .FLV files!  Because I have QuickTime Pro, it can also save the files as .MOVs although I&#8217;ve since found <a href=\"http:\/\/vixy.net\/\">Vixy<\/a> &#8211; an online service that will also carry out the conversion from Flash video to a variety of MPEG4 video formats including .AVI\/.MOV\/.MP4 and .3GP or to .MP3 (audio only).<\/p>\n<p>After I&#8217;d done all this, Alex (who really should blog more often about the huge volumes of Mac and Internet-related stuff that he knows and I don&#8217;t) told me that he uses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isquint.com\/\">iSquint<\/a> for converting Flash Video for iTunes playback.  I had been under the impression that iSquint would reduce the picture size for iPod playback but it seems it can also retain TV size (whatever that is).  iSquint also has a grown-up brother &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techspansion.com\/visualhub\/\">Visual Hub<\/a> &#8211; and, although I haven&#8217;t used it yet, it looks to be a pretty useful program which &#8220;bridges the gap between numerous complicated video formatting standards&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Another toolset which may be useful is <a href=\"http:\/\/ffmpegx.com\/\">ffmpegX<\/a>, which provides a Mac OS X interface to a number of open-source video and audio processing tools.  There&#8217;s also the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/quicktime\/mpeg2\/\">Apple QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback component<\/a>, which enables QuickTime to play Video CD (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MPEG-1\">MPEG1<\/a>) and DVD (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MPEG-2\">MPEG2<\/a>) content and even convert them to MPEG4.<\/p>\n<h3>Ripping DVD content for playback on the computer<\/h3>\n<p>Ripping DVDs.  Surely that&#8217;s illegal? Only if I then pass copies on to others, which of course I won&#8217;t, will I?  Let&#8217;s be clear from the start that I&#8217;m only talking about backing up legally purchased content for personal use.<\/p>\n<p>One application commonly used to make backup copies of DVDs is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mactheripper.org\/\">Mac the Ripper<\/a>.  There is a Windows application called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdshrink.org\/\">DVDShrink<\/a> (which allows the DVD content to be reauthored and if necessary &#8220;shrunk&#8221; to fit on a standard DVD) but to simply rip a copy for local playback the most commonly used application is <a href=\"http:\/\/handbrake.m0k.org\/\">HandBrake<\/a> (also available for a while as MediaFork but the two development streams have now merged and future versions will be known as HandBrake).  I was having problems using this last night but once I stopped trying to rip at a constant quality of 100% quality (and stuck with the default setting of an average bitrate of 1000kbps &#8211; perfectly acceptable for computer playback) everything was fine.<\/p>\n<p>Others have written better guides on this than me&#8230; you can find some here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From Mark Pilgrim:\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/howto.diveintomark.org\/ipod-dvd-ripping-guide\/\">How to rip DVD movies [&#8230;] using free software<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/howto.diveintomark.org\/dvd-backup\/\">How to backup your DVD movies<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/howto.diveintomark.org\/ipod-porn-conversion-guide\/\">How to put [other stuff &#8211; not just the adult content that he suggests] onto your iPod<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>From Mac for beginners: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macforbeginners.com\/page.php?id=191\">importing DVDs with HandBrake<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>From Digital 501: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digital501.com\/200602194\/mac-movie-rip-mpeg4\/\">travelling with movies on a Mac<\/a> (the comments offer some great tips for saving battery life whilst watching movies).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Playing Windows Media content on a Mac<\/h3>\n<p>Although I have a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/mac\/otherproducts\/otherproducts.aspx?pid=windowsmedia\">Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OS X<\/a> (which I think came with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/mac\/products\/office2004\/office2004.aspx?pid=office2004\">Office 2004 for Mac<\/a>), Microsoft discontinued development of this product a while back and now distributes the free <a href=\"http:\/\/\">Flip4Mac<\/a> Player as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/windowsmedia\/player\/wmcomponents.mspx\">Windows Media Components for QuickTime<\/a>.  Unfortunately there is no support for content that is protected with Windows Media digital rights management (DRM) but I&#8217;m sure there are cracks and workarounds for those who are motivated to do so&#8230; if the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intergrated_Media_Player\">BBC distributes content in Windows Media format<\/a> (therefore cutting out Mac and Linux users) then I might even have a look myself&#8230; the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_Rights_Management\">Wikipedia article on DRM<\/a> is a good place to start.<\/p>\n<h3>Playing QuickTime content in full-screen mode without buying QuickTime Pro<\/h3>\n<p>Apple QuickTime Pro it is a handy application for $29.99 (although, yet again Apple rips us off in the UK with a dodgy exchange rate so it&#8217;s \u00c2\u00a320 here) as it can be extended to play other media formats (as discussed above); however one of the Pro benefits is playing content in full-screen mode.  It seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.edogg.com\/index.php?\/archives\/10-Play-movies-full-screen-in-QuickTime-Basic.html\">Mac users can trick the standard QuickTime application into playing content in full-screen mode using a little AppleScript<\/a>.  For QuickTime users on Windows, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/nerd-tv-how-to-play-back-mpeg-4-video.htm\">I wrote about some methods for full-screen MPEG4 playback last year<\/a> &#8211; including simply playing the content through iTunes!<\/p>\n<p>I hope this pile of multimedia tips has been useful.  Comments are welcome from those who have other free or low-cost solutions to contribute to the mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I&#8217;ve had cause to convert various multimedia items between formats and it&#8217;s not always been straightforward. 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