First Time Burning DVD (vob)

[Wanderlustus]

Hi Folks. A friend of mine ripped a concert disc down to its parts (vob, buf, ifo) and it's in two folders, claiming to be two discs. Thing is, one folder is 6+ gig in size, and the other is almost 8 gig. How should one approach burning this thing so it will play in its original state (menus and all) in a stand alone player?

I have Nero 7 for burning but I've never tried to burn a "real" DVD disc.

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

[redwudz]

You could try DVDShrink and this guide: http://www.dvdshrink.info/re-author-v3beta5-advanced.php But I would recommend burning to DVD with ImgBurn instead of Nero.

[Wanderlustus]

I downloaded DVDshrink but does this downgrade the quality of the DVD? I just downloaded ImgBurn too. Haven't the foggiest yet how to use either.

[redwudz]

That's why I linked to that guide. Add both parts and Shrink should be able to combine them. If you reduce the size from ~14GB to 4.37GB (DVD-5), you will definitely reduce the quality. You could use a dual layer DVD disc (7.95GB) and have a bit less quality loss. Shrink and ImgBurn both have plenty of guides on their tool pages for help with the programs.

Certainly several others ways to do this, but they can be a bit complex.

You could use VOB2MPG to extract out to two MPEG files, re-encode them to a lower bitrate, then add both to a authoring program and burn to a new DVD, but you would lose all the menus. The size of the existing files is the problem. You will have to reduce their size before you can put them on a DVD disc.

DVD Rebuilder is another possibility, but that whole operation is even more complex, though likely better quality.

[Wanderlustus]

Thanks very much for all the help.

My burner doesn't do DL. As the files are labeled as disc #1 and #2 should I lose a bit less quality using DVDshrink on each at a time? Have I answered my own question?

Is there anyway I could lose less quality and put these on 4 discs, or will I end up losing the menus and such.

Hey, thanks again, and thanks for putting up with these questions.

[guns1inger]

Put it on two discs. Use DVD Rebuilder to do the reduction and you won't lose as much quality as Shrink will cost you.

[Wanderlustus]

Well damn, guns, that bit of softie was telling me I needed to have all sorts of other stuff installed.

What's the deal? Is there a pack of stuff I need to run this properly?





Not sure why this image isn't showing up, but it reads:

"None of the supported, commercial, encoders were found on your system.

Make sure you got Cinema Craft Encoder (CCE) or canopus Encoder Installed.

You may use DVD Rebuilder with QuEnc or ReJig that have been installed from the main wizard."

Or is english not my first language? <snork>

[guns1inger]

The 4.5 MB installer includes everything you need to get it going on a clean system. It should work out of the box, so to speak. Use the HCEnc encoder (also included)

[Wanderlustus]

Don't quite get it. The first thing it asks is to open a project," a Rbd file?

[Wanderlustus]

DVD Rebuilder is another possibility, but that whole operation is even more complex, though likely better quality.

I think you hit that on the head. Well confused here, now.

[Wanderlustus]

Don't quite get it. The first thing it asks is to open a project," a Rbd file?

Ah well, I've done a bit of reading and I'm going to give it a shot.

My own DVD player has bit the biggie, so I'm going to have to test it on my mate's player in tomorrow.

Thanks for the help, guys.

Sure I'll be back going WTF?

Cheers and beers,

[guns1inger]

Don't open a Project, because you don't have one. Source path should be the video_ts folder of the DVD you want to process. Working path can be any folder - I use c:\temp. Output path is where you want the processed DVD files to go.

Under Mode (menu) select HC Encoder Mode and One Click Mode. That should be enough to get you going. Now click on the Backup DVD button and wait until it is down. It could take up to 2 hours on your machine.

[Wanderlustus]

It's working away as we speak. Pretty sure I've done what you've suggested. Gawd knows what I'll turn up.

So, does this automatically prompt for disc? Or does it save it to files for later burns?

Oh yeah, how does the quality compare to doing it with DVDshrink? How does it comapre with the original?

My mate doesn't even clue-n about different codecs and why my movies won't play on his standalone. Poor bugger bought a ton of equipment last year when it was still price high, and still doesn't know what he has. Neither do I for that matter -- soon as I drop by he puts his bloody Wii on and just loses all grasp. :>

[Wanderlustus]

Just noticed that ReBuilder has negated #7 VTS out of 1 - 10. Strangeness?

Guess I'm asking if this is going to leave the process pointless. Sorry folks, I really don't know a tad about these vobbies and such.

[tomlee59]

Shrinking will generally cause some of those to disappear. That's normal. Each vob is a maximum of 1G. So if you are shrinking to fit a 6GB DVD onto a 4GB blank, then a couple vobs will have to go bye-bye.

[Wanderlustus]

Is there anyway to just split them up so one doesn't lose any quality at all? I mean, can't I just use more discs?

[guns1inger]

You cann split them easily with DVD Shrink in re-author mode, but you will lose the menus. You can probably split them with Vobblanker and keep the menus, but I haven't tried. DVD Remake Pro will also do it, but it is not a free tool.

[Wanderlustus]

Thanks guns', I don't really care about the menus and all that fluff anyway. Guess I'll start doing some testing with these software packages. Thanks for all the input, folks.