Convert VOB taken with a camcorder to an mpeg

[hygieneboy]

I have a Sony Camcorder that records in Vob format. I copied the original files from one of my disks to my computer, then erased the disk. Wish I hadnt done that.....if I still had the original disk, I could easily use the Sony Picture motion software to convert the files to mpeg.

However, I dont have the original. Is their a program that can do this? I tried PE 3.0 and the results were horrible. I tried vob2mpeg and some others like it, but did not get a good result.

Any ideas?

Thank you

[poisondeathray]

What does "did not get a result" mean ? Can you be more specific? vob2mpeg doesn't re-encode so I can't imagine worse quality...

[minidv2dvd]

vob2mpeg doesn't change anything in the video, it's just the original in a new wrapper. any complaints about the quality would be in the original also.

[hygieneboy]

I keep getting a Finished processing 0 subsets message. I directed the folder containing vob sets to the folder that contained the vob file itself. Do I need to direct it somewhere else?

[schematic2]

sometimes you have to click on the start button twice before it processes

[hygieneboy]

I clicked start 10 times and it keeps saying finished processing 0 subsets.

Does the folder I direct the program to only have to contain the VOB files, or does it also have to have the iso, bup, etc files?

[minidv2dvd]

just vobs will work if they are numbered consecutively.

[hygieneboy]

Im directing the program to a folder that only has one vob file in it and its still not working.

Any other programs that will do this for me without quality loss?

I tried renaming the file with the extension mpg, but when I played that file, it acted strangley....fast forwarding itself, then stopping, then fast forwarding again.

[poisondeathray]

You can try appending with mpg2cut2

or avidemux (set video & audio to copy, format to mpeg2-ps)