conversion of .vob files to playable xvid or divx

[trey31357]

Hey everyone,

I'm sorry if this is the incorrect page for me to post this. My problem is that I have a movie in various .vob files, and I downloaded the program DVD2AVI, and used it to convert these files. I was later going to use something simply called "vobtool" to put the audio and video together. However, when I went to use the latter tool, the former program had output video, but no audio, and the audio format and everything was on "auto select" when I first started the conversion. Additionally, when I play what was converted in media player (of course w/out audio). the view is distorted, like the height is too great for the width or something. The format I chose to output the video to was Xvid MPEG-4. Is there anything I'm doing wrong, any advice that anyone can give me, even if it's an alternate better method?

Thanks.

[redwudz]

A simpler method might be using FairUse Wizard.

[jimmalenko]

AutoGK or virtualdub-MPEG2 or virtualdubmod would be my tools of choice.

[laspis59]

I would go with jimmalenko's choice too.
The freeware method would be to rip the vob's with DVDDecrypter and then load into VirtualDub MPEG-2.Choose XviD or DivX as your compression codec and save.

[trey31357]

Okay, thanks for the advice, a few more questions, though. The other tool I used combined the two different .vob files for me, yet, as you can tell from the post I still had problems. VirtualDub does only one at a time, if I select "Save segmented AVI", how would I combine them later? Also, I'm only working with about 2GB hard drive space, and the other program managed to save the conversion within a gig and some change. After freeing that space up, I still might not have enough, it's claiming it will require 52000MB???? Is this normal?

Thanks for your input.

[mats.hogberg]

If "it" (VirtualDub?) tells you you'll end up with 52 GB, you must have forgot to set video compression, and are saving as raw uncompressed AVI.

/Mats

[jimmalenko]

You gotta go to Video > Compression and select a video codec (Divx or Xvid). Then you gotta configure it. Otherwise you're saving uncompressed.

I'd suggest you'll need the guides section right about now

[PuzZLeR]

I'm only working with about 2GB hard drive space

Just a side note here. I highly recommend getting an external hard disk drive if you want to do video editing. A drive with 250GB to 300GB is not very expensive today. They are fast, reliable and you can get better organized instead of feeling constantly suffocated every time you want to do a project. Good luck.