Movie file conversion

[Blaze163]

Lali ho!

Long story short I have 'acquired' the files for a newly released movie. Won't say where, against the rules. Sadly it arrived as a VOB and MPEG2 file set. I have no idea what to do with them to put them back together as anything my laptop can understand. VLC gave it the ol' college try and got precisely nowhere. So... what do I do with them? Please be aware that I'm basically tech illiterate so you kinda have to explain it to me in terms a four year old could follow. And even then talk slowly. I'm on Linux so googling got me nowhere but an .exe I can't use for a converter. Suggestions welcomed.

 

[Deleted member 397813]

have you tried out a portable windows usb? something like medicat or something like that?

 

[Blaze163]

have you tried out a portable windows usb? something like medicat or something like that?

Far beyond my technical abilities. I broke my EZ Flash 3 in 1 card trying to replace the battery. I'm best not trusted with anything more fancy than putting a pizza in the oven.

 

[FAST6191]

"VOB and MPEG2"

That is usually a DVD. If it was a DVD it would have also shipped with IFO (and BUP but that is literally a backup of the IFO files in case of scratched disc) but it might have been skipped which could make life harder. I am not surprised most video players struggle if you loaded it file by file a la most other things you might have done.
If in VLC you want to try "open directory" or maybe "open disc" and browse to a directory instead of pointing it at a drive then maybe it will do something.

After this I would see about trying to authoring a DVD. Some will be able to do things with a directory full of VOB files or raw MPEG2.

DVDauthor might be included (and will work with such things as Kdenlive)
videotrans is another
DVD styler is another
I don't know offhand which of those will be on Linux Mint but if they are on this distro I doubt Mint will be lacking.

As long as you don't care to make fancy menus then most of those should be fairly obvious drag and drop/open and press go. Worst will probably be if you have to tell it to do a PAL or NTSC DVD (depending upon the source region of the footage you have) and 4:3 or 16:9 (16:9 being widescreen).