Ripping DVD or Converting VOB files at a specific Bitrate - Help a NOOB.

[Corellian Corvette]

Need help figuring out how I did something a long time ago and can't remember what I did

I have some legit DVD's I purchased of an animated TV series. I've ripped them to my HDD to use on other devices. However, in all my PC backups I lost the first 20 episodes of the series and want to re-rip them.

I'm not a very sophisticated user, and all the remaining files I have are 480x720 .wmv files, however each file Data rate is exactly 3000kbps, Total Bitrate 3128kbps, audio bit-rate is 128kbps and sample rate is 48kHz. Each file is ~ 490 MB

Now, I *assumed* just copied the .VOB files over from the DVD and renamed them as .wmv since that would have been the easiest.

However, the original .VOB files 9383kbps, and the audio bitrate is 224kbs.

This tells me I must have either ripped or compressed the files.

But I don't know what program I would have used to do this. I typically used DVD Shrink or DVD Decrypter (which I know is no longer supported) as they were simple for my simple needs. I'm mostly a "free program" guy so I know it wasn't a purchaed piece of SW.

DVD shrink, as far as I can tell, only gives you a compression percentage, not a video and audio bitrate specification AFAIK (or remember)

Can anyone give think how I could have ripped or compressed the original files in such a way that I would have specified a new video and audio Bitrate? Or how I could easily do it now? I do want to keep them as .wmv files.

Thanks!

[Corellian Corvette]

One additional point - the files have to work in the ZUNE media player. All the .VOB's that I just tried don't work, but my older (compressed) files do.

[guns1inger]

You can't just rename a .VOB to .WMV and have it work, so that would not have been the method. It could have been pretty much anything that outputs WMV files. All it needs is a two pass encode to a fixed size with an average bitrate of 3000 kbps to give you the files you need. You could also do a single pass constant bitrate encode, but the quality would most likely be lower (my guess is that this is what you did the first time round anyway)

[Corellian Corvette]

What program would have done that? Or any suggestions on how to do it? Take a VOB and re-encode that way?