mpeg1 vob decoding?

[qwprince]

i got this problem with an old home video(NTSC 29.97) put to dvd ..

now the dvd is totally around 5hrs with ac3 audio & the video it seems is mpeg1 .. so i cant use dgindex or anything to seperate the av .. i tried encoding the vobs(5 vobs) seperatly in virtualdub but except for the first vob all the other vobs when encoded seperatly to avi their audios are out of sync .. i dont want to use frame rate adjustment as i want to join all the files to a single avi later ..

whats the best soln to recode the video to avi without too much hassle and loss of quality?

[Guest]

Do a binary concatenation of the VOBs into one file before loading into VirtualDub.

[qwprince]

well .. ahem .. how do i do the binary concatenation ?

tried mkvmerge 1.4.0 but gets the error "Error parsing the first ac3 frame" for all files except the first vob

tried flaskmpeg 0.7.8 .. but it kind'f crashes every 5mins and resizing is hell of a problem .. & so is cropping ..

[Guest]

Oops, forgot it was the Newbies forum. :)

Open a DOS window and use:

copy /b file1.vob+file2.vob combined.vob

[qwprince]

thankx a lot mate .. that worked perfectly ..

[tigerman8u]

You can also use Vobedit to join, split etc. vob files.