I recently bought video plans to build a vapor blast cabinet off of a site called Gumroad. It was pretty easy. I have had issue with selling the DVD at times getting it to foreign places with ease and for a reasonable shipping price, so digital sales was always a desire. I have never been able to get the data off of the DVDs to copy digitally and I am not savvy on how to go about reformatting the data so I can upload. Here is what I know:
There are two DVDs. Each DVD, when I open it on my PC and do not let it autoplay has two folders in it; Audio_TS and Video_TS. Opening up either folder leads to large amounts of files with extensions I am not familiar with; _TS, .BUP, .IFO, and some alphanumeric dash something-or-others.
Since the beginning, I have only been able to save these two folders and have had to use various burning software to copy them. The burning software didnt ever seem to care that I click on the Video or the Audio_TS and would start and complete its actions without issue. Now, I am trying to upload this data to the Gumroad site so I can sell digitally and it will not just accept this format, it wont upload the folders but will upload the files. I do not think that will work for anyone, though.
TL;DR - I need to convert the data on my DVD set to a file type that I can upload to Gumroad and that people could then click on and it would just play. HELP!
You need dvd ripping software. I don't think any of it is technically legal though.
But don't you have the original recordings? Those should be in a standard digital format and I would believe the editing software should be able to output an avi or mp4.
Check out this software
https://videoconverter.iskysoft.com/convert-mp4/convert-ifo-to-mp4.html
Spoke too soon. The software is not converting the complete files. Many are truncated and I dont know why. The input says big number MB, the output says M4P smaller MB, but still big number, but the file on my computer is small and lasting seconds rather than minutes. I thought it was too easy.
My first thought is that you can rip each disk into one large .iso image file and distribute those files. Any burner software will be able to burn these back into a disk for your customers to do themselves. Some good programs (in Linux OS at least) will even just mount and read the iso files as a virtual CD/DVD without even needing a DVD drive.
There is free open source that does this too - I use something called Handbrake which is very powerful
Handbreak does not work on the DVD either, I tried a long time ago for personal use. Not stealing intellectual Property, just wanted a easier format for me to use in the shop, and on my Apple Products, which said bye to the slot a long time ago.
I hope you get it nailed, as I will gladly pony up for the digital version.
After several issues, I was able to directly convert the VOB files to MP4 and upload them. All 20 files are uploaded and ready. First sale was to the UK
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