Best way to burn vob to dvd

[ozstar100]

Hi,

I have a vob file which I was able to salvage from an image I burnt of a vacation we had years ago.

It which works okay VLAN, however I want to create a dvd with it.

I have 'Super' to convert to avi however I am not sure what codec to use, DivX DX50 or Xvid.

I want the best pix I can get and it is 4+ MB already.

I was going to use Ulead DVD Workshop as I always do.

Any help please?

oz

[manono]

I use nothing Ulead, but why on earth would you even think of converting it to AVI before then converting it back to DVD video? You want to use the untouched audio and video which are already DVD compliant.

I'd first demux (one way is to open all the VOBs at once in DGIndex and then File->Save Project and Demux Video). That will give you a D2V project file (delete it), an M2V video file, and an AC3 (most likely, maybe WAV or MP2) audio file. Open the M2V and AC3 in your authoring program, make darned sure it doesn't reencode already compliant assets, and author it for DVD.

[jagabo]

Yes, just use any non-reencoding DVD authoring software to author a new DVD. If it doesn't accept VOB files, remux it to an MPG file with mpg2cut2, or VOB2MPG, etc.

[ozstar100]

Many thanks.. I will give that a go. Appreciate it..

oz

[Kerry56]

Ok, I'm a bit confused. You say you want to create a dvd with it, but you are also talking about converting to avi using divx or xvid codecs. Those are not compatible objectives.

If you want to make a dvd video out of this one vob file, you don't need to convert it. Vob files are a subset of mpeg2 program files, used in dvd-video, and you should be able to reauthor this directly into a new dvd-video which can be played on any stand alone dvd player.

Ulead DVD Workshop may take it directly as input and give you a dvd-video output. Try it. If not, you can import the vob file into DVDStyler, DVDFlick or AVStoDVD and create a new dvd. If it doesn't want to input into one of these programs, you can rename the vob file with an .mpeg extension, or run the vob through Vob2Mpg in vobset mode to get an mpeg file output.

You can set AVStoDVD to not reencode compliant video and audio. DVDStyler and DVDFlick should also simply pass compliant streams through and reauthor to dvd for you, but I don't use them often so I'm not as familiar with their controls.

4mb is pretty small. Do you mean 4gb by any chance? In one vob file? Vob files are normally split into 1gb chunks, and reauthoring will split them in any program where you want dvd-video as the final format.

Edit: Whoa, very late with reply.

[ozstar100]

Many thanks for that. Yes doh!! I did mean 4+ GB!

I have never tried this before so was a little confused until you guys connected some wires in my brain.

I was aware that I didn't want to lose any quality by re-rendering it which is why I was asking about divx etc.

I was just trying to convert it without loss to an avi.

Anyway thanks to you guys I am hopefully running on all 8 and will actually tyr tham all for experience sake.

Avagoodweekend!

oz