Vob to mpeg-2 question

[ChrisXP]

Is there anyway to combine all the movie .vob files to one file without decreasing the quality? Not looking to shrink videos to fit on DVD-5 disks or into menu making, but to just watch them from the HD instead (minus the commercials).

Tried VOB2MPG and it did combine .vob files, but the encoding was of a lossy variety (text had noticeable ghosting).

Anyone with a heads up?

[manono]

Hi-

Tried VOB2MPG and it did combine .vob files, but the encoding was of a lossy variety (text had noticeable ghosting).

If the resulting MPG had ghosting, (probably caused by the choice of deinterlacer), then so did the VOBs. No reencoding is done when converting VOBs to MPGs. VOBs, after all, already contain MPEG-2 video.

You could use DVD Decrypter to decrypt and set the file splitting to none, in order to get one big VOB file. Or you could try VOBMerge.

[filmboss80]

VOBMerge does not recompress, so the quality will stay the same. It has a quirk, though. You must select your output file to be in the same folder as your VOB source files. Once the merge is finished, you can move it anywhere you want.

[ChrisXP]

If the resulting MPG had ghosting, (probably caused by the choice of deinterlacer), then so did the VOBs. No reencoding is done when converting VOBs to MPGs. VOBs, after all, already contain MPEG-2 video.

Yeah, did a comparision and saw that in screenshots it's lighter than the actual movie itself. This is true in WMP.

I'm using DVDFab 4 Platinum to rip the videos to disk and removing unnecessary .vob files (like those pesky commercials), but it offers no merge tools for easier viewing on the HD. Watching from the HD is soooo much faster especially in seeks, and saves my cheap LiteOn DVD drive from having a meltdown!

[manono]

Yeah, did a comparision and saw that in screenshots it's lighter than the actual movie itself. This is true in WMP.

Stop it already. It doesn't recompress. If you did a side-by-side comparison then the first player was using the overlay and the 2nd one wasn't. What happened to your earlier ghosting claim? Did you discover the VOBs also ghosted at playback, if using the same player with the same settings?

...but it offers no merge tools for easier viewing on the HD.

Why not just play the DVD on the hard drive, rather than the VOBs or MPGs? You won't have to merge anything that way.