VOB to MPG

[jippiejajee]

Using IC7 to fit DVD's made of home video's on one DVD (or SVCD) I sometime have the need to convert a vob file to mpg2 file. After the shrinking of sveral vob's from different DVD's (goes faster with IC7 compared with re-encoding, and sometimes I don't have the original mpg's anymore) I want to author a new DVD usings these files as mpg's using DVD workshop. Which is the most simple tool to use to convert a vob to mpg file with one click vob in mpg out

thx
Jippie

[JonRead]

Some people say merge the VOBS together and then rename it to MPG but I know that causes audio problems.

So, instead maybe try MaxDVD, it is fast and works a treat. The URL is : http://www.share2.com/dvdtoavi/

Funny thing is we are exactly the same, I was hunting for such a tool a while back to author in DVD Workshop.

[jippiejajee]

thx for the tip, unfortunately the program you mention is not freeware.
Would vobedit also not be able to do the job ?
To get an mpg2 file demux and mux will be unavoidable. But I could use vobedit to demux video and audio stream I want and mux them together again with for instance TMPGenc or BBmpeg. Although would be easier if you had a program that could do both steps demux and remux

[jippiejajee]

found that vobrator is the right solution to demux the vob's

[MackemX]

dunno exactly how imgtools does it but version 0.89 below has a demux/remux feature but I'm not sure if its for you

link (http://www.dvdr-digest.com/software/software.php?file=imgtool)

[twinches]

I just did this yesterday with one of my Home video's . If your Audio is not AC3 then you can simply join all of your VOBs to one big VOB and then rename to .mpeg. No de-muxing needed.

I just opened up my .IFO in ifoedit and clicked on VOB extras. Then checked to strip VOBs and for VOB size, told it not to split vobs.

Set the destination directory and then it created a new Large single VOB file. Then I just renamed it to .mpeg. It worked fine. I then edited and re-authored it and it plays back fine.

[mpucoder]

There are many programs for joining vobs together, if you want a simpler way. I personally use DOS Prompt and copy /b
One thing, though, your resultant file will contain additional DVD specific packs. This won't bother an mpeg decoder, but wastes space.

[jippiejajee]

thx for all tips and tricks so far, very helpful and much appreciated

thx again