Combine numerous small VOB's into single VOB?

[MikeTR]

Is there a way to 'merge' a DVD containing a lot (30+) of small VOB's/IFO's into one with only a few large VOB's and one IFO?
Basically I'm trying to change the file layout on the disk itself, while preserving original menu's and chapters.

[Wombler]

Presumably not (at least not without a considerable effort) as they're split for a reason.

Why would you want to do that anyway?

Is there something specific you have in mind?


Wombler

[MikeTR]

Thought so.
I'm having problems encoding some DVD's to x264, because the VOB's are not recognized as belonging to the same DVD.
All VOB's are then encoded seperately no matter what I try. So I thought merging them might solve this. Guess not.
Is there any whay in which I can force all selected VOB's to be encoded into one file (h264)?

[Guest]

Thought so.
I'm having problems encoding some DVD's to x264, because the VOB's are not recognized as belonging to the same DVD.
All VOB's are then encoded seperately no matter what I try. So I thought merging them might solve this. Guess not.
Is there any whay in which I can force all selected VOB's to be encoded into one file (h264)? You said you were trying to re-author a DVD, retaining all the menus etc. Now you say you want to just make an AVC encode.

If you just want to make an AVC encode, you can simply concatenate the VOBs using DOS COPY /B. Or you can rename the VOBs correctly so that your application combines them as needed.

[MikeTR]

You said you were trying to re-author a DVD, retaining all the menus etc. Now you say you want to just make an AVC encode.
I was trying to re-author the DVD since I couldn't figure out how to encode it properly the way it is now and this seemed a logical step to me.
Or you can rename the VOBs correctly so that your application combines them as needed.
The VOB's look like they are named correctly already (VTS_01_0, VTS_01_2, VTS_01_0 etc) what could I change here that would enable the apps (MeGui & RipBot) to combine them?

[Guest]

Give the list of all the exact VOB file names, including extensions, and their sizes.

Did you rip them all from one DVD?

[MikeTR]

Yep, all one DVD. The file list looks like this:

69.632 VIDEO_TS.BUP
69.632 VIDEO_TS.IFO
86.016 VTS_01_0.BUP
86.016 VTS_01_0.IFO
466.530.304 VTS_01_0.VOB
112.640 VTS_01_1.VOB
18.432 VTS_02_0.BUP
18.432 VTS_02_0.IFO
67.584 VTS_02_0.VOB
112.640 VTS_02_1.VOB
18.432 VTS_03_0.BUP
18.432 VTS_03_0.IFO
67.584 VTS_03_0.VOB
1.112.064 VTS_03_1.VOB
18.432 VTS_04_0.BUP
18.432 VTS_04_0.IFO
67.584 VTS_04_0.VOB
104.648.704 VTS_04_1.VOB
22.528 VTS_05_0.BUP
22.528 VTS_05_0.IFO
67.584 VTS_05_0.VOB
113.614.848 VTS_05_1.VOB
18.432 VTS_06_0.BUP
18.432 VTS_06_0.IFO
67.584 VTS_06_0.VOB
100.241.408 VTS_06_1.VOB
20.480 VTS_07_0.BUP
20.480 VTS_07_0.IFO
67.584 VTS_07_0.VOB
101.455.872 VTS_07_1.VOB
18.432 VTS_08_0.BUP
18.432 VTS_08_0.IFO
67.584 VTS_08_0.VOB
131.026.944 VTS_08_1.VOB
22.528 VTS_09_0.BUP
22.528 VTS_09_0.IFO
67.584 VTS_09_0.VOB
148.017.152 VTS_09_1.VOB
18.432 VTS_10_0.BUP
18.432 VTS_10_0.IFO
67.584 VTS_10_0.VOB

[setarip_old]

@MikeTR

Hi!

To me that appears to be a VERY unusual listing for a video DVD - By far, the largest .VOB is "VTS_01_0.VOB", which (If I remember correctly) is typically a menu .VOB.

May I ask, what is the Title and Region number of this DVD?

[blutach]

Merging the menu VOBs with the title VOBs is useless. Also, when merging, you need to ensure the attributes are the same (video, audio and subtitle).

Nevertheless, DVD2One in re-author mode can merge titles.

Regards

[MikeTR]

@setarip_old
It's a university tutorial disc containing a selection of video classes. So it is not an actual title (also region free).

@blutach
Thanks for the suggestion. I would prefer not to have to re-author the VOB's if only I could get them recognized by MeGui or Ripbot correctly.
Maybe I'd better post a follow up in that section.

[turbojet]

Have you tried loading all the _1.VOB's into dgindex, saving project while demuxing all audio, load the d2v with mpeg2source in avs and input into a program?

[Wombler]

@blutach
Thanks for the suggestion. I would prefer not to have to re-author the VOB's if only I could get them recognized by MeGui or Ripbot correctly.
Maybe I'd better post a follow up in that section.

Blutach is correct and DVD2One can produce a combined titleset (without compression if that's what you desire).

It's blindingly fast at this too since, as there's no need to transcode, the majority of what it does is essentially a file rebuilding exercise.

You can then compress the DVD2One output with software of your choice.


Wombler

[MikeTR]

Blutach is correct and DVD2One can produce a combined titleset (without compression if that's what you desire).

Will try.:thanks: