converting .vro files to .avi

[beeswax]

I’m trying to convert some .vro files to .avi so that I can send some dvd’s to Daughter1 at University (she's studying medicine and the dvd's are recordings of that German chappie who cuts up bodies an tv, and thinks he's Joseph Beuys). My dvd recorder (the one under the telly) records in this format (.vro). I did a search last night but could only come up with a paid for app called avs converter. It’s cheap, but I’d rather go free if possible. Can anyone help?
beeswax

[StewartKnight]

On my DVD recorder, you can "finalise" the disc, and it becomes playable in pratically all DVD players. I'm sure yours would be the same!

[beeswax]

yup, I've finalized my disc, but all it shows are .vro files. I should have said that she's only got her laptop to play it on.
beeswax

[fooby]

Try renaming the .VRO to a .MPG or .MPEG then treat it as and mpeg and find a free mpg to avi converterer.

Or

You can get VSO DivX to DVD
http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=vso_DivXtoDVD

This can actually take loads of input files such as avi wmv mpg etc and makes a nice dvd from it. You can also buy their software called copy to dvd and then you have a one click solution to make dvd's

[beeswax]

Try renaming the .VRO to a .MPG or .MPEG then treat it as and mpeg and find a free mpg to avi converterer.

Is that it? Yes it is. In fact it's better than that. Having renamed the file *.MPEG, it immediately played on my machine. Ta very much indeed.
beeswax

[mac_shinobi]

The best video related tutorial sites that will help you out are :

www.afterdawn.com/guides

www.videohelp.com

www.doom9.org

On the videohelp site just click on the link on the left called "conversion" and I am sure on there somehwere it will literally walk you through how to convert it etc.

I also 2nd the vso software recomended above.

[fooby]

Glad I could help

[butter1093]

There is an article about converting VRO files from DVD recorders and Mini-DVD disc, you can have a look, i just use the video converter and convert my VRO files successfully with high quality.

How to convert VRO files from DVD Recorder or Mini-DVD Disc?

[Cools]

use ffmpeg if you have the right codec it will convert any thing.. get from sourceforge

[Gab]

Try handbrake.fr - Kim Komando recommends it at her site and it worked for me. Best part is, it's free.

[Arthur]

Try handbrake.fr - Kim Komando recommends it at her site and it worked for me. Best part is, it's free.

Have you tried using Handbrake to convert VRO files to AVI?

Hint. It won't work.

[Cools]

notepad copy and past below save as convert.cmd
download ffmpeg copy the ffmpeg.exe to the windows folder
and drag and drop your vis on to the batch file to convert

ffmpeg -i %1 -s 320x240 -vcodec msmpeg4v2 %~n1.avi