mattbrown
22nd February 2008, 06:38
Hi, I have a problem that I don't think is unique, but I've been searching for a couple days for a solution that's not too complex and haven't found one. Here it is:
I have a DVD that is not encrypted that consists of several TV episodes. What I attempted to do was to copy all of the VOB files from the DVD, change their extension to .MPG, and join them and encode them with Windows Media Encoder 9 into one, large WMV file.
I did this successfully. But when I went to break the file up into several WMV files (i.e. episodes) I found that the beginning of the each episode had a minute or two cut off. I went back and looked at the VOB files and found that it was embedded in the VOB files. When you play the DVD normally, those parts are not missing. So, I'm pretty confused. Let me list what I'm trying to do and maybe someone would be so gracious as to help me:
1) I want to extract the original MPEG from the DVD without reencoding it (for quality reasons). As I said above, the DVD I was using had some portions missing from the VOB when I simply changed the file extensions and joined them together.
2) I want to take those original MPEG files and merge and encode them using Windows Media Encoder 9. I don't think that I would have any problem with this step if I could get step 1 right (I know that someone might ask why I want to use WMV and suggest a better format, but I use WMV for compatibility issues).
Thanks!
I have a DVD that is not encrypted that consists of several TV episodes. What I attempted to do was to copy all of the VOB files from the DVD, change their extension to .MPG, and join them and encode them with Windows Media Encoder 9 into one, large WMV file.
I did this successfully. But when I went to break the file up into several WMV files (i.e. episodes) I found that the beginning of the each episode had a minute or two cut off. I went back and looked at the VOB files and found that it was embedded in the VOB files. When you play the DVD normally, those parts are not missing. So, I'm pretty confused. Let me list what I'm trying to do and maybe someone would be so gracious as to help me:
1) I want to extract the original MPEG from the DVD without reencoding it (for quality reasons). As I said above, the DVD I was using had some portions missing from the VOB when I simply changed the file extensions and joined them together.
2) I want to take those original MPEG files and merge and encode them using Windows Media Encoder 9. I don't think that I would have any problem with this step if I could get step 1 right (I know that someone might ask why I want to use WMV and suggest a better format, but I use WMV for compatibility issues).
Thanks!