How to go from VOBs into QuickTime Pro to Apple TV ?

How can I get a bunch of VOB files from a DVD so that I can use QuickTime Pro to convert to Apple TV ?
I have played for weeks with QuickTime Pro, MediaFork, HandBrake, MPEG StreamClip, VisualHub, iSquint, ffmpegX, Mac the Ripper, and more, and compared outputs. I have tried all kinds of bit rates, 1 and 2 pass, etc. In the end, I personally like the QuickTime Pro conversions best, and I find that I have had very few problems with QuickTime Pro.
I want to use QuickTime Pro to convert a few of my DVD for Apple TV. With Quicktime Pro I can read a single VOB file and convert it but I don't get sound or all the VOB files that I need. How can I quickly, without a lengthy conversion, pull all the VOB files from a DVD so that I can convert them to Apple TV with QuickTime Pro ?

1) Pull the information off the DVD with NO video/audio conversion.This is not possible -- at least not possible to do without at least converting the AC3 Audio first. And, then it will only be possible if you have the QT MPEG-2 component installed. You appear to be operating under the misguided assumption that QT Pro -- a temporally synchronized, "frame-ro-frame" player/converter asset -- will work on a spatially synchronized file containing a single data stream of video data blocks interspersed with blocks of audio data. It won't. There are basically only two approaches here. Both require the use of an intermediate file format. (I.e., a conversion is required.):
1) The first approach is to use an application like MPEG Streamclip to convert your VOBs (both audio and video) to a less compressed format and/or editable format like "animation/PCM" or the "DV" format. However, since DV is an exacting specification which may change the frame rate and/or physical dimensions of your movies, I'd recommend "animation/PCM" here. This approach allows audio and video to be converted by QT Pro during a single conversion which usually eliminates the likelihood of audio and video going "out of sync."
2) The other approach requires you to use a third-party application (like MPEG Streamclip) to demux your VOBs to associated elementary MPEG-2 (M2V) and PCM (AIFF) files which QT Pro can handle either individually (may allow de-synchronization) or as a "resourced" pair (best approach) of files. In this case the M2V file contains the original, unconverted MPEG-2 data and the AIFF contains a stereo "mix-down" of the AC3 audio.
Recommend you try the second option here. Once the paired files are created, (without moving them) open the M2V in QT Pro by double-clicking it. This should open M2V which, in turn, references the AIFF file as a resource. (Not moving the files is to ensure the the resource path does not become broken.) In any case, you can now process the opened file(s) in QT Pro using the "Movie to TV" export option. Be advised that neither MPEG Streamclip nor QT Pro allow "easy" cropping of the video using this workflow. In addition, if you plan to customize the dimensions of a 16:9 "widescreen" 640 x 360 file to 720 x 405 or 854 x 480 for encoding, the dimensions must be changed in before selecting the export option.

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