Changing the format of a DVD file

Hi Guys and Dolls,
I wasn't really sure were to post this but i know you alot are always a helpfull bunch. I am currently in the process of building a home media server (im not saying this to show off by the way) and am copying my DVD collection on to Hard Drive using mac the ripper however the film sizes are rather large.i was wondering if there is any way of convering the vdeo_TS files into something like a quicktime format. I don't need the menus or special features as i will have those on the original discs so i just need the main feature. thanks for any help you can offer
jimbo

Don't do it.
The DVD uses MPEG-2, which doesn't convert well, and offers pretty-darn-good compression, so you won't do much better without sacrificing quality. Finally, it will take your computer 10-30 hours to compress a full length feature movie into a "better" format than MPEG-2.
Then, if you commit all of that time and energy to recompressing and you don't like the result, or you find it only saves you 10-25% of the disks space, where will you be?
Just splurge on a 400GB hard drive and thank me later.

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I did not receive a satisfactory answer to the question. Yes, you can go
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Aloha... Darrell
From: TomGroupGA <[email protected]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:31:07 -0600
To: Darrell Wong <[email protected]>
Subject: Change default format in "save as" file
format window
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