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Folks, I'm desperately trying to convert a number of avi's to mp4 for my iPod G5 YES, I did follow the "iPod Video Conversion Guide" http://wiki.videolan.org/IPod_Video_Conversion_Guide YES, I did some googling and reviewed the documentation, wikis ... before posting ! Issue :my source fil...

Sometimes VLC has some problems with transcoding, check the VLCmessage log if any errors occur. Otherwise, just try it over again.

Tried again and again and again... and finally got it to work...

Please do me a favor : do not ask me why it finally worked

That works perfectly! Thanks a lot :) Well.... almost..... There are at least 2 DVDs that will eventually convert to mp4, but they are rejected by iTunes because the format is not recognised. The string I'm using is the following: :sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=768,scale=1,acodec=mp4a,ab=96,channe...

First of all, choosing DVD with menus won't work, you have to selected DVD without menus, so that only the movie is converted otherwise VLC just shows the DVD menu.
Then try IPod#Converting_a_Video_with_the_Graphical_User_Interface.

That works perfectly!

Thanks a lot

Hi list... I'm trying to convert existing original DVDs to anything like avi/mpg/mp4 (the purpose being to view the movie on my iPod during long flight trips...) I can use VLC to view the moves, subtitles & menus are ok, but I cannot get it to save the file. Here is what I do: file - open disc, ...