How to "fix" vob files without losing quality?

[giovannibr]

I have the following problem, and using search I couldnt find an answer since I think it's too specific (i tried "vob fix", "mpeg stream fix" but couldnt know what to do with the results or they werent what I was looking for). Here is my problem:

A friend of mine has a video recorder, those sony's ones that record directly to dvd (mini-dvd), without drm restrictions and such. He used a mini-dvdrw and recorded flawlessly. I can copy all the vobs to my hd without any problems, by explorer drag and drop, using IsoBuster or even Iso-Puzzle, without getting any reading errors. Problem is: I cant "seek" my file. It seens it is out of sync or something like that. The dvd-rw is a little scratched, but those scratches are really thin and I think if they were bad I couldnt be copying the files normally, right?

I tried to play the vobs using PowerDVD, VLC Media Player and Media PLayer Classic, and all of them have the same problem. I want to fix this dvd so I can re record it in a normal dvd-r. Are there programs to edit vobs, to "search" bad streams, or "fix" vob streams like we have for mp3 files? If there are such programs, where I can download them?

If you have other suggestions of key words i may be using in "search" to find my answer, I appreciate as well. If you need more details than these ones I posted (like a picture of the disk), just ask.

Thanks in advance.

[laserfan]

One program which is not free but has a fully-functional 2-week trial is VideoReDo Plus. It has a "Quickstream Fix" (QSF) function which specifically addresses problems with the VOB files. Why VOB files HAVE problems I'm not real sure, but they usually do!!??! Seems like they have bad program time stamps which may be why your "seek" isn't working.

Anyway at the VRD site they also have a companion program "DVDCopy" which is free and allows you in one step to copy a home-brew DVD and QSF it.

Maybe you don't even want to touch a $50 program for this, but for some of us who do a lot of OTA captures and MPEG2 editing (commercials) it's a godsend...

[SeeMoreDigital]

Try this...

Download and install DGIndex and MuxMan

Fire-up DGIndex and import all your required VOB's (making sure they are in the correct order).

Select "Save Project and De-mux Video" - This will create an elementary MPEG-2 video stream and elementary audio stream.

Fire-up MuxMan and import your elementary video stream and elementary audio stream

Create a file/folder "destination".... Hit the "Start" button


EDIT: Make sure you have enough space on your HDD's....

Cheers

[giovannibr]

Thanks for replying!

laserfan, I remember someone using this VideoReDo software and the program saved the "fixed" vobs in mpeg. Isnt reconverting, right, is just exporting the mpegs from vobs?

If it's using some kind of compression, I going to test SeeMoreDigital advice.

Tomorrow Im going to have time to do this processing, and I will come back to tell you if it worked! C' ya!

[laserfan]

Thanks for replying!

laserfan, I remember someone using this VideoReDo software and the program saved the "fixed" vobs in mpeg. Isnt reconverting, right, is just exporting the mpegs from vobs?That's right, VRD+ doesn't re-encode, it just repairs.

I would try SMD's suggestions first since those programs are *very excellent* freeware! If that doesn't work I'm pretty sure VRD+ will do the trick for you.