I have the VOB files so what should I do now ?

[guista]

Hi everybody,

I have my VOB, IFO, BUP files extracted in the VIDEO_TS directory from my original DVD.
I can play all the VOB files with Media Player Classic.

I found (by playing them) that the picture was located in these 4 VOB files:

VTS_01_1.VOB (1 GB)
VTS_01_2.VOB (1 GB)
VTS_01_3.VOB (1 GB)
VTS_01_4.VOB (984 MB)

1/ I concatenated the 4 VOB files according to the file name order.
2/ I DGIndexed the concatenated file.
3/ I then encoded the file to XVid.

The 3 steps were successful but the result was not.
Even if Media Player Classic display a 1h35 length, I was only able to watch the first 20 mins frames. The remaining frames (from 20 mins to 1h35) were all black.
This is strange because the file size is OK according to the length (about 700 MB for 1000 KB/S XVid encoding).

It seems that my VOB files were not indexed correctly.

* What should I do ?

* I only worked with VOB but do I have something to do with IFO files ?

* I there a tool which can concatenate the VOB files correctly according to the DVD structure ?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[stax76]

Nowadays I suggest to use MakeMKV which StaxRip handles with mkvextract and ffms2 instead of DGMPGDec, it's faster and easier. Of course there are a lot off different ways and even more tools but with your old ways some things are troublesome, try a DVD like Casino Royal, good luck keeping video, audio and subtitles in sync. ;)

[guista]

As far as I am concerned, I use MeGUI which encodes x264 and XVID and has plenty of other tools.

* Do you know a tutorial which explains how to concatenate the VOBs correctly ?

I Googled but did not find. I probably do not have the right keywords (I am French ;-))

[stax76]

First ripping VOBs as multiple files and then later concatenate them might not make much sense. I've never heard of the DGMPGDec problem you describe, probably either a rare bug or you are doing something wrong.

[Ghitulescu]

You can rip them in one piece (search to find out how) or, alternatively, you can join the VOBs à-la-carte (also search to find out how).

[stax76]

You can rip them in one piece with DVD Decrypter, alternatively, you can join the VOBs à-la-carte with ProjectX.

[Inspector.Gadget]

It's probably easiest to rip the DVD in IFO mode with DVD Decrypter OR to rip in File mode and then make a new set of VOBs only for the relevant title with PGCDemux. The rationale is that VOB sets as they are found on the DVD can contain more than one title, and you don't want to include those in your movie encode.

[manono]

1/ I concatenated the 4 VOB files according to the file name order.
My guess is that's where you screwed up, depending on how you joined them. Plus, it's a completely unnecessary step since you can open the 4 VOBs all at once in DGIndex.

[guista]

My guess is that's where you screwed up, depending on how you joined them. Plus, it's a completely unnecessary step since you can open the 4 VOBs all at once in DGIndex.

I used a tool called VOBMerge where you just choose the VOB files, decide the concatenation order then I encoded the resulting file with MeGUI (by running DGIndex first then encoding it to XVid).

I suppose VOBMerge did something wrong.
Now you tell me that DGIndex can index and concatenate in one step, I am going to do this.

Thanks.