MPEG2 Playback error

Question

I just got the MPEG Streamclip and the MPEG2 Playback so I try to import the video from my homemade dvd to DV, I'm able to see the video on the streamclip but at the time of convertion it give tells me Error: import to dv failier
even if I try to transfer it to MPEG it gives me the error messege
Am I doing something wrong or did I skip a step?

Answer 1

JLGPro,
Here's the easiest way. Double click the DVD icon on your desktop. Then Double click on the VIDEO_TS Folder. Switch to "list view" if you haven't already. You'll need to "import" all the .VOB files into iMovie - but here's the catch - you won't hear anything. The muxed sound won't play in iMovie. But don't worry.
Although I don't know what you want to do with importing your home made DVD into iMovie, that being said, the best way is to drag and drop one VOB file at a time right on a Clip Pane. It usually takes from 10-20 minutes for the file to load into iMovie - depends on the file's size. After that one file has loaded into iMovie's Clips Pane - Save. Then launch MPEG StreamClip. Drag and drop the identical VOB file from your DVD into MPEG StreamClip's window. It will ask you if you want to open all files or just one. Click "just one". Example: VTS011.VOB. (Don't worry about the IFO or the BUP files - ignore them.) Then you want to choose FILE, then click on "Demux to AIFF". Save it on your desktop. It will show up as either an audio iTunes aiff file or a QT aiff file - it doesn't matter which, your Mac will be able to play it. Example: VTS011.aiff.
[For organization's sake, create a new untitled folder on your desktop. You can store your audio files there one by one after you have dropped them in iMovie. Then when you're completely finished - trash the audio files. This way if you screw up along the way, you'll still have the audio files in the untitled folder instead of all over your desktop. You could set up the untitled folder from the start and demux aiff from MPEG StreamClip then save to the untitled folder if you want.]
ReLaunch iMovie, if you've closed it. Click on the video file in the Clips Pane to select it and copy. (Command+C) Click in the iMovie clip viewer and paste (Command+V) - Save. (Your video clip will be in the Clip viewer and the Clips Pane - again, if you mess up, you'll still have the original video clip in the Pane to use again.) Then switch to timeline viewer.
Slide iMovie window over and find the aiff sound file on your desktop. Drag it to the timeline's audio section. After it loads, Save and then make sure it is exactly lined up with the video. Save. Click audio to select it. Put Playhead at or near the beginning of the sound file. Then choose Advanced and click "Lock Audio at Playhead". Save. Play the video and make sure the sound is in sync. (Although you shouldn't have to - if needed - adjust the audio left or right until it is in sync.) Save. Move the aiff audio file on your desktop to the untitled folder.
Drag & Drop (or import) the next VOB file into the iMovie Clips Pane. Save. Example: VTS012.VOB.
Relaunch MPEG StreamClip if you've closed it, then drag and drop the next VOB file onto MPEG StreamClip's window. Example: VTS012.VOB. Repeat what you did with the first one: choose FILE then Demux to AIFF - save on desktop or untitled folder. Go back to iMovie and copy the next video clip in the Pane then paste it in the Clip Viewer. Save. (Now you have 2 clips side by side in the viewer) Switch to the video timeline viewer and drag & drop the VTS012.aiff sound file into the sound area in iMovie. Line up exactly with the video clip and Save. Play to check the sound is in sync. Adjust if necessary. Save. Click sound file to select, move playhead near or at the start of the audio file and choose Advanced then click on "Lock Audio Clip at Playhead". Move the aiff sound file on your desktop into the untitled folder. Then continue this procedure until all the VTS.VOB video and demuxed aiff audio files are in iMovie. Now you're entire DVD is in iMovie and ready to be edited. If that's what you want to do. Adjust the sound volume, add sounds or music. Delete parts of the video. Add transitions, titles, effects, etc.
NOTE: If you have a header - a Title File - then you will have to drag & drop that into iMovie's Clips Pane also, then copy and paste into the video clip viewer. You should do that first. If the header has sound, you'll have to drag and drop that Title VOB file into MPEG StreamClip's window and demux the sound to aiff also, then drag and drop it into iMovie. The header or Title file on the DVD is: VIDEO_TS.VOB.
Another way is to use MPEG StreamClip to import your entire DVD. Then you have to export sections (about 4 per hour) to DV. (Each will be a QT .dv file) Then drag and drop the DV file into iMovie's Clips Pane. Copy, then paste into the Clip viewer. Doing it this way, the sound will be okay in iMovie. But it's easy to screw up when exporting several DV files from MPEG StreamClip. The most common problem is that you miss a tiny fraction of the original DVD. And if you export by overlapping, so you don't leave out any video, you then have to edit each video clip in iMovie to delete the overlapped sessions. I find this method more time consuming and easier to mess up. But if you would rather do it this way, put in a reply and I will post step by step directions in another reply.
Good Luck and take care,
JAM
P.S. This is what the files look like inside your DVD VIDEO_TS Folder (or very similer to this) Except they all have an icon to the left of them. Remember, ignore the BUP and IFO files.
VIDEO_TS.BUP
VIDEO_TS.IFO
VIDEO_TS.VOB - This is the Title File or the header.
VTS010.BUP
VTS010.IFO
VTS011.VOB
VTS012.VOB
VTS020.BUP
VTS020.IFO
VTS021.VOB
VTS030.BUP
VTS030.IFO
VTS031.VOB
VTS040.BUP
VTS040.IFO
VTS041.VOB
VTS050.BUP
VTS050.IFO
VTS051.VOB
VTS060.BUP
VTS060.IFO
VTS061.VOB
VTS070.BUP
VTS070.IFO
VTS071.VOB
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