9 vob files on one DVD?

[fmctm1sw]

I am currently using DVDauthor and it's associated GUI (that keeps getting better and better). When I add a bunch of titles, it creates 5 different vob files, the first 4 being split at 1GB and the last one has whatever is left over. What I would like to do is make each title its own vob file. How do I pull that one off? Thinking that one day I may want to rip one back off the DVD. Or could I somehow just cut a piece out of the vob if I want an episode back off?

[seb]

Re: the question about taking an individual episode back off a DVD in future.

Although there are various tools you could use to extract a single title from the vobs, seeing as you're already using DVDAuthor why not use that to extract the episode you want? I'm assuming that you added each episode as a new track.

Just start a new project...select Add DVD Video and then pick the episode you want from the track list. Copy the Clip Video Data to the HDD and you get a neat MPG file ready to be re-authored. Easy!

[fmctm1sw]

Although there are various tools you could use to extract a single title from the vobs, seeing as you're already using DVDAuthor why not use that to extract the episode you want? I'm assuming that you added each episode as a new track.

I've never noticed a "Add DVD Video" option...

[fmctm1sw]

Just start a new project...select Add DVD Video and then pick the episode you want from the track list. Copy the Clip Video Data to the HDD and you get a neat MPG file ready to be re-authored. Easy!

Are you speaking of this?

https://www.videohelp.com/toolsimages/standardtool519.jpg

edit: I guess I'm way overthinking this. I opened my video_ts folder with DVDshrink and it showed my 9 titles. I guess it somehow knows where the titles are even if there are only 4 vobs....

[seb]

I'm sorry - I assumed you were talking about Tmpeg DVDAuthor!

Anyway - you're right that it's no trouble for a app like DVD shrink to know where the individual titles are - even if they span from one VOB to another.

Sorry again for my confusion

[leetbeagle]

You could compile it as you have normally done in DVDAuthor, then use DVDShrink to chop up the .vobs per-episode.

NJK

[liquid217]

I am currently using DVDauthor and it's associated GUI (that keeps getting better and better). When I add a bunch of titles, it creates 5 different vob files, the first 4 being split at 1GB and the last one has whatever is left over. What I would like to do is make each title its own vob file. How do I pull that one off? Thinking that one day I may want to rip one back off the DVD. Or could I somehow just cut a piece out of the vob if I want an episode back off?

hello again fmctm1sw. In order to do that, each title would be its own titleset, and although that is part of the dvd spec, i do not have that set up as an option in the gui. Currently, each title you add to the project, gets added to a single titleset.

Dvdauthor, (the actual program) can however do this quite easily. Just read the documentation for dvdauthor for more information. I am curious, however, why you would prefer the individual titles to be under their own titleset. If its a case of having different mpegs with different resolutions that you wish to add, the dvd spec allows different mpegs of different resolutions under the same titleset (like it is right now with the gui).

edit: just read your message a little closer (havent had my coffee yet). You should be able to use any dvd ripping app (like dvd decryptor) to sucessfully extract the titles if you need to rip them later on.