Why is my mpg's on some software hard to load

[buick]

I am being experimenting with some trial software on DVD authoring, I am taking pretty old vhs tapes and recording them to my DVD recorder then dumping them to my computer hard drive to author and put on permit disk. The vobs are 1.5 gigs I believe and the only program that loads and works with them quick is TMPGEnc DVD Author, ulead products and others seem to take for ever to load each file and really load down the machine. My machine is 3 GHz and would think is enough machine, any ideas? Thanks for any help

[FulciLives]

When you use your DVD recorder be sure you are using the "DVD Video" mode instead of the "VR" mode.

Also you should RIP your DVD to the computer first with DVD Decrypter then try to import it into the DVD authoring program.

TMPGEnc DVD Author tends to work very well when it comes to importing ripped DVD files. It is a very good though simple DVD authoring program.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[buick]

Thanks for the reply I always use dvd video but I did run into problems with just renaming files to .mpg from vob, some would load and some wouldnt. I know dvd author will take vobs also where many other programs wont. Now using DVD Decrypter is there a mpg out or save in the vob format what does the DVD Decrypter do when using it? And I guess you maybe right that dvd author handles big files much better. thanks again.

[guns1inger]

VOB files aren't just renamed mpge files. They are a container format which may also contain multiple videos, multiple audio tracks, menu video/audio, subpictures and navigation data. Just renaming them is not a good idea. There are programs that will extract the video information properly from VOBs if that is what you need.