VOB to mgp lossless

[casperinmd]

Hey guys, I have been reading many sites and googling stuff to find the best way to convert my DVD's into the highest quality format in a single file. Most all of those places pointed to VOB2MPG.

I currently have my DVD's in folder format on my HTPC hooked up via HDMI to my 52" LCD. Will this software give me a near exact copy (in terms of quality) of the DVD's I have?

My main reason, in case anyone is wondering, to do this is because I use Media Browser for MCE and to auto play a custom home theater intro I need to enable playlists and just put my intro in the same folder with a number before the main movie, ie:

x:\Movies\Rambo\Rambo01.mpg
x:\Movies\Rambo\Rambo02.mpg

Where Rambo01.mpg is my intro and the Rambo02.mpg is the actual movie.

I also read a post somewhere that stated there was a problem using the command line options when he went to convert his entire library in a batch file where it just renamed the first VOB it found into the mpg output, ie: VIDEO_1.VOB became VIDEO_1.mpg, with the latest version, can you tell it to output to something else using variables? So in my example above, I would get x:\Movies\Rambo\Rambo02.mpg from the conversion.

Thanks in advance.

[ChrissyBoy]

Will this software give me a near exact copy (in terms of quality) of the DVD's I have?

Yes. There is no reencoding and so the output is exactly the same as the DVD in terms of quality.

My main reason, in case anyone is wondering, to do this is because I use Media Browser for MCE and to auto play a custom home theater intro I need to enable playlists and just put my intro in the same folder with a number before the main movie, ie:

x:\Movies\Rambo\Rambo01.mpg
x:\Movies\Rambo\Rambo02.mpg

With Vob2mpg you will get the main movie - i assume you will be creating the intro "by hand"?

v3's command line ability is still in development as there are many more options compared to v2.5.

[casperinmd]

Good to hear, this is just what I need then.

Does the v3 have a command line option yet? If not, is there a roadmap of what is supposed to be in it? Specifically the ability to output to a certain name.

I guess I could always script it after the fact if needed to rename though.

[ChrissyBoy]

Does the v3 have a command line option yet? If not, is there a roadmap of what is supposed to be in it? Specifically the ability to output to a certain name.

No. But I will add initial support tomorrow to the PRO version.

[casperinmd]

No. But I will add initial support tomorrow to the PRO version.

Great just bought it. Do you send out alerts with new versions? Guessing not..I will just check back tonight and again tomorrow. I am excited to test it out!

[ChrissyBoy]

It is usually announced on the front page here and you can recieve alerts from videohelp:

[ChrissyBoy]

Here you go:

VOB2MPG 3.0.024 Released 1 Mar 2009

- [PRO] Added initial Command Line Support:
	VOB2MPG /v=IfoPath /o=MpgPath /MainTitle | /t=TitleNum [/c=chxx,chxx...] [/sc]
	
	/v=IfoPath		    Path to VIDEO_TS.IFO file of the source DVD. Enclose in quotes if path contains spaces
	/o=MpgPath          Path to output mpeg file. Enclose in quotes if path contains spaces
	/MainTitle          Let VOB2MPG work out the title of the main movie based on duration
	/t=TitleNum         Title to extract from if /MainTitle is not used
	/c=chxx,chxx...     Comma delimited list of chapters to extract from title
	/sc                 Split chapters. Output a mpeg file per chapter
	
	examples:
	
	VOB2MPG /v="C:\My DVDs\VIDEO_TS.IFO" /o="C:\VOB2MPG Output\The fog.mpg" /MainTitle /c=1,2,3,7 /sc
	(extract chapters 1, 2 ,3 & 7 from the main movie into seperate mpegs)
	
	VOB2MPG /v="C:\My DVDs\VIDEO_TS.IFO" /o="C:\VOB2MPG Output\The fog.mpg" /MainTitle
	(extract the main movie only)
	
	VOB2MPG /v="C:\My DVDs\VIDEO_TS.IFO" /o="C:\VOB2MPG Output\The fog.mpg" /t=5 /c=10
	(extract Title 5 chapter 10 only)

[casperinmd]

Nice..now before I post my batch file to auto convert DVD's in a large quantity to MPG's...when can I get my hands on the new version :P

[SWBisbee]

VOB2MPG 3.0.024 Released 1 Mar 2009 is not listed in the registered users
area, is this a oversight?

Thanks

[casperinmd]

Looks like the link is not working, Videohelp did email me a notification with a link to the new version...404 though.

[ChrissyBoy]

VOB2MPG 3.0.024 Released 1 Mar 2009 is not listed in the registered users
area, is this a oversight?

Thanks

Yes sorry. Text updated now.

[SWBisbee]

The download is still 3.0.022

Thanks again

[ChrissyBoy]

Sorry - my ftp program was playing up. It is .024 now!

[SWBisbee]

No its still acting up still .022
Sorry to be a pain.

Thanks

[casperinmd]

It is in the registered section, if you don't have a license, you may not get it under the free version if it is only a release to add CLI options.

[SWBisbee]

The registered section shows .024 but the actual download is .022

Thanks

[casperinmd]

Hmm, I assume you tried after ChrissyBoy posted at 06:17 today right? Weird, I tried after that and I got the 024 version, minus the bugs I have, it is the new version with CLI support.

[ChrissyBoy]

The registered section shows .024 but the actual download is .022

Thanks

Perhaps you need to clear your browser cache. If that doesn't help email me and i will send it out to you.... But it is definatly 24 now in the reg section.