Tool for fixing VOB-files?

[tominator]

Hi

I use DVDDecrypter in FileMode with "File splitting-> None" to extract Main Movie as a single VOB-file.

I load the VOB-file in Canopus Procoder 3 to encode it to WMV.

Usually this works well but for certain files the encoding process freezes and generates an error that Procoder can't handle and therefore the process stops. Trying to run the encode again they freeze at the same place.

I'm not sure if this is a problem with Procoder or the VOB-files but I've had problems with AC3-files in Procoder that were fixed once running the AC3 thorugh AC3Fix. I was hoping that there may be similar software that fixes VOB-files. Does anyone know of such a tool?

Any other suggestions on how to make this work would also be appreciated.

[unskinnyboy]

Are these newer DVDs from which you are extracting the VOBs using DVDDecrypter? Does the VOB file, when opening in VirtualDubMoD and skimming through, look fine? If you see glitches in certain frames, then they are sure signs that the ripping wasn't done properly. If so, try another ripper - like DVDFab Decrypter - to extract the VOBs.

[tominator]

Are these newer DVDs from which you are extracting the VOBs using DVDDecrypter? Does the VOB file, when opening in VirtualDubMoD and skimming through, look fine? If you see glitches in certain frames, then they are sure signs that the ripping wasn't done properly. If so, try another ripper - like DVDFab Decrypter - to extract the VOBs.

Some are very new, some are quite old.

I'd like to try DVDFabDecrypter but I can't get it to rip the movie as one VOB. I get a whole bunch. Do you happen to know how to make FabDecrypter rip it as just one VOB?

[unskinnyboy]

DVDFab Decrypter can't output as a single VOB, AFAIK. You need to either merge the VOBs after the ripping using something like VOBMerge OR you can index all the VOBs into a single d2v and then use that inside Procoder through an avs input.

[tominator]

OR you can index all the VOBs into a single d2v and then use that inside Procoder through an avs input.

This sounds very interesting. But Im afraid I dont have the faintest idea on how to accomplish it. I didn't even know it was possible using avs (Im assuming you mean avisynth) with Procoder. Do you have any sites where I could read more about it?

[unskinnyboy]

The gist - first you would create a single d2v file from all the VOBs. Then you would create an AVISynth script (an .avs file) with something like MPEG2Source("yourmovie.d2v") inside it. Procoder would take this file as an input. To know more, you need to read up on AVISynth and possibly Procoder's help files.