What file format are you saving it to on Mac? If it's just the VOBs or something iMovie's not going to like that, need computer video files (eg. MPEG).

What software are you using? I've tried Mac the Ripper for Mac, and I think Handbrake could work as well.

Is it even a video DVD? Or is it a data DVD, with the movie stored on there?

Haha. A lot of things that contribute to this eh? Some things to think about, if you can't figure it out there just come back on here and outline your process that's not working. See how we can help then. Just not enough info now. 🙂

thanks for the help. yeah it's VOB. I'll give Mac the ripper a shot. Not sure if its video or data, don't know the difference.

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Originally posted by aburke09

thanks for the help. yeah it's VOB. I'll give Mac the ripper a shot. Not sure if its video or data, don't know the difference.

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Yeah Mac the Ripper should work I'd think. It's designed to rip professional DVDs (ie. ones that would have encryption and such, so you can rip them for backup purposes or for having the video accessible on your computer, etc), so your homemade DVD should be super easy to rip.

VOB files are video files too, but they're basically only read by DVD players. I think it's to keep all DVDs having a consistent container format so that any DVD player should be able to read them (hence why you don't see a WMV or MOV DVD or something).

The difference between a data and video DVD is that a video DVD is designed to be played back by a DVD player, and a data DVD is designed to be read and accessed through a computer DVD drive. So a data DVD just stores the files, whereas a video DVD is formatted for playback.

Hope that helps. 🙂