Problems when trying to convert VOB to DVD enabled mpg clips

[Kevlin]

Im in the process of making a Film quiz for my birthday some months away. My mission is to cut out scenes from different movies and put them on a DVD.
I have run into some problems and I hope that someone here can point me in the right direction.

After having read some guides here I decided to use DVD ripper to extract the VOBs and then Tempgenc to convert the VOBs to DVD enabled clips.

The problem is that Tempgenc is acting weird (I use the demo version they have on the site). I can open some of the VOBs that I have ripped but not all. I haven't seen a pattern in this. Sometimes the VOB will have sound and sometimes I have to use a program called DVD2AVI (I think) and extract the sound to wav and then use this file for sound in Tempgenc. And sometimes the program crasch as I try to open the VOB.

I have tried the method on both my computers, both with different hardware configurations with the same result. In the guide it never talks about eventual problems so Im not sure what to do.

If you dont have any ideas of what I do wrong maybe you can point me in the direction of other programs that will do the same thing?

Thanks everyone
Kev

[Cobra]

Skip TMPGEnc. Drop the .VOB directly into TMPGEnc DVD Author (different to TMPGEnc) and edit it so you get only the sections you want.

[Kevlin]

Thanks mate.

I'll be sure to check that out and report back.

[sanjayk]

If you have VOB then you dont need to encode again using TMPGEnc. However, TMPGEnc does not recognize AC3 audio. So if you open a file with AC3 audio stream you will get a blank.

But if you need to re-encode VOBs. Try this. Use the MPEG options in TMPGEnc to Demux the video and audio. Convert AC3 audio to wav using HeadAC3he or BeSweet. Then use the demuxed vid stream and converted wav file to encode to DVD compliant MPEG2