Where do VOB's come from??

[Hoss]

Hey Guys! I have been following the AVI to DVD guide found on Doom9, and so far has been GREAT. I'm almost done, I just need to get this finished.

Here is what I have done so far:

Audio Processing - extracted the audio using Gspot and converted from mp3 to wav audio.
Then turned that into an AC3 using AC3 Machine...(and wherever it ended up (output.ac3) I'm yet to find..)

Now it's time to convert the video to MPEG-2...ok...so here is what I've done now: I chose to use TMPG.

"Before you can start digging into TMPG you have to create a DVD2AVI project of your movie."
(That's nice but I thought I was converting AVI2DVD not the other way around.)

I started with a 670MB avi file.
Now, I have a 1.02GB wav file,(created by Gspot) and a 929MB mpg file (created by TMPG).
There should be an AC3 file (output.ac3) that AC3 Machine created, I just can't find it....

So where do these .vob files come into play, and how did I get backwards on the conversion process?

Thanks for all your help in advance, You Guys Are GREAT!

Hoss

[echooff]

You are not backwards on the conversion process, you're only half way.
Vob files are created when you "author" a dvd. Any number of programs can do this, with one of the simplist being Tmpg DvdAuthor all the way to scenerist being one of the hardest and most powerfull.

The find function on your computer using the command line *.ac3 should assist you finding your lost file.

"Before you can start digging into TMPG you have to create a DVD2AVI project of your movie."

No you don't. Avi files can be loaded directly into Tmpgenc.

A 960 mb mpg from a 650 mb avi seems kind of small to me. I usually end up with a much larger file. Somewhere in the range of 1700-2200 mb. It really depends on what bitrate you chose. I find really small bitrate video to look like crap.

[Hoss]

Cool. Thanks for the info. I used a 320 bitrate. Is that too small, maybe causing my filesize to be smaller than "usuall" ?

Thanks again,

Hoss