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Darksoul71
7th May 2002, 14:19
Iīm currently experimenting with MiniDVDs.
I use DVDQuickbuilder to mux the recalculated MPEG2 movie stream and the original AC3 audio stream.
After this I split the big VOB in smaller chunks that fit to CDR.
Then I master these smaller VOBs with DVDQuickbuilder and burn them to CDR. Works fine !

Only problem here:
VOBSplit is pretty uncomfortable. You have always to select the range for each VOB. I havenīt found a VOB utility that is cabable of doing "automated" splitting.

Iīm thinking of something like that for such a tool:
1) Opening up source VOB
2) Choosing CDR size
3) Choosing number of CDRs
4) Letting the tool split your VOB automaticly

So my question:
Is it enough to split a VOB file binary (by using 4k blocks) ?
Or are there any headers to correct when Iīve finished splitting ?

Writing such a tool is pretty straightforward but I donīt know too much about VOB structure. So this might be a question for Derrow or another DVD guru :)

Unfortunately the author of VOBUtil didnīt reply to my last e-mail. So I want to write a tool by my own in Delphi and release it under GPL afterwards.

c u,
D$

[Toff]
7th May 2002, 21:47
What about vStrip ?
Here is the option to use (with the CLI version) :
-$P splits output-file(s) after P megabytes (1024KB chunks),

Give it a try, I haven't tested it yet.

There is also the vStrip GUI but I've never used it.

Darksoul71
8th May 2002, 06:42
Hi Toff !

Thanks ! Iīll try it. :)

This would save me from messing around with VOB structure.

cu,
D$

LIGHTNING UK!
9th May 2002, 20:54
The new IFO mode in DVD Decrypter also lets you split the output into cd sized chunks. not sure if its of any use though!

Darksoul71
9th May 2002, 21:06
@Lightning UK:
Thanx for answering !
No, I have to split a big 2-2,4 Gig VOB into smaller chunks like 690 MB. Iīve contacted Derrow and the new version of Ifoedit provides the function I need.

Thanks again to any1 ! :)

cu,
D$