Converting TV show vob to h.264

[tommyjw6206]

For, literally, years I have been using tools like Handbrake, MakeMKV and many others with hours spent on research and trial-and-error of configuration trying to convert my TV show ISO files to h.264 to serve to my Roku on the Media Player channel. My problem is always the mismatch in frame rates and I have never been able to find the combination of tool and settings to make a conversion without either some stammering or some sort of picture quality sacrifice like combing.

Does anyone know of a conversion tool from TV show VOB (ISO) to h.264? I'm not even looking for a smaller file size, I just want perfect video conversion.

Many thanks.

[manono]

My problem is always the mismatch in frame rates and I have never been able to find the combination of tool and settings to make a conversion without either some stammering or some sort of picture quality sacrifice like combing.

What mismatch of framerates? This is NTSC you're talking about? If it was shot on video it should probably be deinterlaced. If film then maybe an IVTC is called for. Do you have any short DVD samples of ones you're having trouble with you'd like to make available? Most TV shows are shot on film these days, although they often need an IVTC. Older series and even some modern ones may be shot on video.

Handbrake is supposed to be able to handle most kinds of sources but I don't use it so someone else can give you some advice about how to use it correctly. MakeMKV only repackages VOBs into the MKV container without reencoding, so if your display won't deinterlace/IVTC it then you might have problems. Why not just play the DVDs?

[videobruger]

and many others

XMedia Recode ?

[tommyjw6206]

I would like to convert my TV DVDs to H.264 so i can play on my Roku since that's all it supports. My previous attempts, as said above, have caused anomalies because of the difference between 29.97 and 25fps. Also combing. Is there any lossless conversion tool from vob to mkv (H.264)? Sorry, I'm an extreme newbie.

Oh, the reason I don't just play dvd is because it's a pain. Gotta switch out dvds every 4 episodes not to mention have to navigate through the beginning menus. I can also distribute seemlessly throughout my house on rokus.

THanks!

[manono]

My previous attempts, as said above, have caused anomalies because of the difference between 29.97 and 25fps.

You didn't say it above. This is the first you've mentioned being in PAL land. And I don't think that's the reason. Hard telecined, yes; being PAL, no.

Is there any lossless conversion tool from vob to mkv (H.264)?

No, because reencoding is required to create H.264 video from an MPEG-2 source.

If you're getting combing then maybe upload a small sample for us to study. Handbrake can IVTC (they give it a different name) to produce a progressive 23.976fps result from a hard-telecined source.

I would like to convert my TV DVDs to H.264 so i can play on my Roku since that's all it supports.

You can use the Plex app to stream from the computer through the Roku to your television. Just converting to H.264 is no guarantee a Roku will play it through the USB port. It's very picky.

[tommyjw6206]

Sorry, dude. Let me back up and pretend I know nothing about encoding (which is probably closer to the truth). I want to do the following:

Babylon 5 VOB -> H.264 (MKV, MP4) lossless

How can this be done loss-less so I can rip Babylon 5 and watch on my Roku? Possible?

[johns0]

Just rip the dvd to your drive and load the folder into handbrake and set video filter decomb to default and video constant quality to 16,i did that for my ntsc babylon dvd collection and plays with no issues on my sony bdp-s380 in data mode as mkv files.

You have to choose each episode to encode from the pulldown tab and que them up and hit encode.Don't choose file mode ever to load vobs,always choose folder mode.Also set video to constant framerate,not variable.

The roku 3 will play mkv with h264 codec,(not xvid or divx) as long as the there is no head stripping or other weird settings through usb.

[manono]

Just rip the dvd to your drive and load the folder into handbrake and set video filter decomb to default and video constant quality to 16...

Babylon 5 VOB -> H.264 (MKV, MP4) lossless
How can this be done loss-less so I can rip Babylon 5 and watch on my Roku? Possible?

No, it won't be lossless, not when reencoding to a different codec. johns0's advice is probably the best you'll get, though, since you don't know what you're doing. And since you resolutely refuse to provide an untouched sample from your source.