Vob -> Mpeg2

[xs-1]

I hope I'm asking this question correctly...

I have a bunch of low quality/ small sized VOB's, around 1-1.5 gb each. Due to volume of them I just want to copy them from disc (these are not encrypted and were created at home) to my hard drive and play them back from there.

As I understand it, the video in the VOB is mpeg2 with ac3 audio. I would like to change the container to avi or mpeg2 without recompressing.

What is the best way to do this?

[blutach]

The easy way is to change the extension from VOB to MPG

Presto!

Regards

[xs-1]

Thanks for the reply.

That kinda works. The only issue that on playback I cannot scroll through the video, it seems to not detect or know where different parts of the film are. For example, the movie is 1 hour long but zoomplayer only report the file to be 17sec long. Any way around this?

[setarip_old]

I would like to change the container to avi or mpeg2 without recompressing.
1) There's no way to change an MPEG-2 to .AVI without recompressing

2) Since .VOBs can contain multiple audiostreams and subtitles and, if I remember correctly, padding, you'd be fortunate to have a perfectly working standalone MPEG-2 file by simply changing the extension to "MPG". From what you say now, you've apparently run into a problem in this regard. For each separate .VOB, I'd suggest that you load the .VOB into "TMPGEnc" (Different than "TMPGEnc DVD Author") as follows:

TMPGEnc>>File>>MPEGTools>>Demultiplex

Save the videostream as an "M2V" file and then save the audiostream of your choice as (presumably) ".AC3".

Then reverse the procedure, as follows:

TMPGEnc>>File>>MPEGTools>>Multiplex - and load in your "M2V" and ".AC3" files. then save with a new filename (with an extender of ".MPG")

Note: When in the "Demultiplex" mode, you may have to first enter "*.*" (without the quotation marks) in order for the program to show the .VOBs

BTW I'm curious to know why and how you created the .VOBs in the first place?