VOB Conversion/Video Length

[koberulz]

I'm trying to convert some VOB files to MPG2 so I can edit them. After trying almost every method listed on this site and coming up with various audio sync errors, absent video, and so on, Simple File Joiner worked perfectly. The audio was in sync, the video was all present, etc...but the VLC-listed runtime for the video was 4:03. Despite that, the entire 2:56:50 of video played.

However, when I opened the file with Screenblast movie studio, it functioned as a 4:03 long video file with no audio track, and functions as only a 4:03 length video in all other programs I can think of to rebuild the MPG.

Is there a way I can fix this, and get this full video to function?

[guns1inger]

It sounds like the indexes are corrupt. I don't know of any nice way to fix it.

Normally I would use VOB2MPG to extract the contents, or Rejig to get back to elementary streams.

[koberulz]

VOB2MPG was the first thing I used, but there was no audio in screenblast. I used AoA audio extractor, and the resultant mp3 had three billion different sync issues.

Rejig gives an unexpected end of archive error when I attempt to download it. I demuxed with DVD Decryptor, though, and got a working AC3 file, one working m2v file, and three m2v files that, when opened in VLC, just sat there doing nothing.

[guns1inger]

It sounds like the source is a bit of a mess.

If you can get a working audio file from DVD Decrypter, and a working video file from VOB2MPG, you can either demux the mpg with Rejig (I use the version that installs with DVD Rebuilder) or just load the mpg and AC3 files separately into screenblast.

[koberulz]

Screenblast doesn't support AC3.

[guns1inger]

Convert the AC3 file to something it does accept. DaudioK should be able to do this.

[koberulz]

It's just as out of sync as the result of the VOB2MPG conversion (starts out fine, ends up a full second in front of the video).

[koberulz]

Er...bump.

The best solution to this, so far as I can tell, is to somehow find a way to edit the SFJ file, despite its apparent 4:03 runtime. It's the only result I've managed to produce that is functional and in sync, so to get that on DVD would be great.

Other than that, is there a way I can fix the corrupt indexes, or resync the audio I have got?