VOB to MPEG conversion

[HartsVideo]

I have a CD/SVCD/DVD ROM drive. I downloaded and installed VOB2MPEG converter. I have several DVDs which contain episodic cartoons. I filled in the correcte information into the VOB2MPEG converter. It converted only 1 of the cartoons on the DVD and the 5 minute cartoon was converted into a 1G file.

Is there a setting that I can change so that the VOB2MPEG converter will convert all the files on the episodic DVDs instead of only 1 file?

Is there a setting that I can change so that a 5 minute cartoon will not be converted into an extremely large 1G file?

Thanks in advance . . . HartsVideo

[RDS1955]

Hm... Not certain about the 1GB issue, but if you don't want to convert the whole VOB file set, rip the DVD to your Hard Drive. Once thats done, take anyone of the individual VOB files you just ripped to your Hard Drive, move it to it's own seperate folder and use VOB2MPEG to convert only that file.

[HartsVideo]

A VOB converter goes through a whole VIDEO_TS folder and joins up the various vobsets to produce mpgs for the different titles. Thus, having a vobset VTS_01_X.vob and a vob set VTS_02_X.vob in a VIDEO_TS folder it will produce VTS_01.mpg and VTS_02.mpg. These can be used in SVCD2DVD.

The reason that I downloaded and installed VOB2MPG was so that I could create workable mpg/mpeg files on my hard drive from an episodic VOB DVD. Without prior conversion from VOB to mpg/mpeg, parts of the files are not joined with the various vobsets to produce mpgs, making useless the files that are copied from an episodic DVD to my hard drive.

However, as I said in my previous post, when I set the command to convert the 9 cartoon episodes on the DVD into MPG/MPEG format, it succeded in converting only one of the files. In addition, the 5 minute cartoon was converted into a 1G MPEG file.

How can I set VOB2MPG to convert all the episodes on a VOB DVD to my hard drive instead of only 1 episode?

How can I reduce the size of a file that the VOB2MPG produces?

HartsVideo

[ChrissyBoy]

Sounds strange that it did not do the DVD properly. Can you provide a folder listing of the VIDEO_TS folder from a command prompt?

[HartsVideo]

What's the DOS command to provide a folder listing of the VIDEO_TS folder?

[RDS1955]

VOB2MPEG has issues with doing anything over 6 VOB files, from what I've been read... Search the Posts in the forum for VOB2MPEG and it's mentioned elsewhere.. And I've done Episodic DVD's just the way I described in my previous post.. One at a time..I did a documentary DVD with five 44 minute episodes on it.. took each VOB file individually and made each one into it's own separate Mpeg....not because of the +6 files issue mentioned, but because I wanted to do each one individually and experiment with each, one at a time..

If your doing a VOB file to Mpeg which; maybe has say, three differing animations or stories, you'll have to convert the whole file to Mpeg, then cut out the section with TMPGenc or something along that line and save whatever it is that you're trying to obtain as it's own individual remastered or shortened Mpeg....

Maybe the reason you're obtaining the 1GB full file size is because you're attempting to do 9 episodes at once; considering the issue with anything over 6 files, and all it's doing is making the 1st Mpeg, then just making useless data in the rest of the file...... Try doing each VOB title set individually and see if this gives you what you want, both episode(s) and proper file size..Rip only one Vob Title set and convert it with VOB2MPEG and see what that does...

[HartsVideo]

Update: When I installed the DVD into my CD/DVD ROM drive, opened up DOS and typed D: (which is my CD/DVD ROM drive) at the command prompt, DOS said that "the device is not ready."

I did an "explore" of the D drive and opened the VIDEO_TS folder. The list of files are:

VIDEO_TS
VIDEO_TS
VIDEO_TS
VTS_01_0
VTS_01_0
VTS_01_0
VTS_01_1
VTS_01_2
VTS_01_3
VTS_02_0
VTS_02_0
VTS_02_0
VTS_03_0
VTS_03_0
VTS_03_0
VTS_03_1

There is also an AUDIO_TS folder but it's empty.

The 9 cartoons play in DVD ROM drive and in my DVD player.

[HartsVideo]

Opening the VIDEO_TS FOLDER and trying to do each of the above listed files using VOB2MPEG didn't work. The resulting files that were created contained nothing. I understand why I probably received a 1G file . . . that makes sense. If VOB2MPEG can only handle six VOB files at a time, it doesn't say that on the website. I cut and pasted "VOB2MPEG" into the search box and came up with very little except these posts. There should be a forum for VOB files, instead of having to use this newbie quorum as a the quorum for everything that doesn't fall under the given categories.

[RDS1955]

I'm spoiled, I do it with Windows, not DOS..The title set you have in your post with DOS, doesn't tell you which is a VOB, BUP or IFO file for each one, and you only need to convert the VOB file..If in Windows your Windows Explorer is not showing the full title path extension, look at the top , click tools and then Folder Options, then View; uncheck the box which states "Hide extensions for known file types".. this will display your file type extension.. then only choose the "VOB file" for conversion..

[RDS1955]

Opps, also I forgot, you have to have version 1.1 of Net.framework installed for this program to function correctly also..Also when searching the entire forum base use this: VOB2MPG and not VOB2MPEG.... you'll get the total returns I do believe...Read the last posting in the VOB2MPG comments section about it "Burping" when doing more than 6 episodes.. thats where I got my info about it not working so great on anything over 6 file sets total..

[HartsVideo]

Does VOB2MPEG have the ability to separate each episode on an edpisodic DVD? If so, how is it done? If not, what program will do it?

[RDS1955]

Don't know about animation, but in all the Episodic DVD's I've done,(Band of Brothers, Star Trek TNG TV Series) each VOB file is it's own Episode or chapter.. Just by looking at what you posted in the title sets that you viewed through DOS, I'm guessing you have 7 individual VOB files,(not IFO or BUP files) listed in the VOB Structure... Most probably have only one title per VOB file, and one or two has more than one, depending on the playing length (Time) of each cartoon..can't really tell by what little bit of info you've posted..If you have more than one Episode in one VOB title set, you'll have to do some cutting with a program like TMPGenc after you've changed it over to Mpeg format and save it as it's own individual Mpeg...

[HartsVideo]

What additional info do you need? There are nine cartoons on a DVD, all of which are in VOB format. I can copy them as a whole, reformat them as mpg or avi files, but I need a program that will separate them into nine individual files once they have been converted. I'll give TMPGenc a try.