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July 16

Converting BUP, IFO, and VOB Files to MOV, MP4, or AVI

Quick History: My favorite show is Avatar: The Last Airbender. I won't bore you to death with why. ;] I have recently lost the source of watching episodes online that have no watermarks on them and are not copy-protected. When I put the DVD into my computer, no matter what program I use to launch it I can not seem to get screenshots from it. That is what I am trying to accomplish: I want to take high quality screenshots of the show without any watermarks.

So far I have managed to find a DVD Decrypter that took the files off the DVD. They are all together in one folder. There are six BUP files. There are six IFO files. There are sixteen VOB files. How can I convert these files to a different format like MOV, MP4, AVI, etc? I want to convert them so that I can get screenshots off of them and also import them into video editing programs like iMovie[basic] and FinalCutPro[advance].

Thank you very much in advance. Any help is extremely appreciated. I've been trying to figure this out for multiple years and it just dawned on me that there is a wonderful and kind community available here at Wikipedia. :D

-Caleb

If you view them with VideoLAN you can take screenshots; you don't need to convert them to another format first. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 02:40, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. I downloaded the program, and it plays the DVD, but I am still unable to take screenshots successfully. When I paste them into any editing program, the image displays whatever is being played at that moment. For example, if I pause it on a shot of person number one and take a screenshot of it, then play it and get to a shot of person number two, then when I paste it it will be the same shot that I paused it on, even though I didn't use PRT SC on that frame.

That's the problem I seem to have. :/

-Caleb

WAIT! I figured it out! If you press Shift+S it takes one and saves it in My Pictures. That's incredible. Thank you so much for your help, I don't know how I could repay you. :D

-Caleb