Ripping with 0SEx

[London Opium Bizzare]

Ok, I rip a dvd in OSEx
I take that .vob file and drag into a black pict file that i have opened in quicktime so I will be able to export the .vob file as a mpeg2. But when I play the movie in quicktime it only plays for 6:05 minutes same amount of time as the last track on the DVD. But if I take into the video LAN player it will play the whole movie. Problem is even when i try to convert the movie in quicktime to .mov .dv .mpeg2 it is only 6:05 or if I take it into DVD studio pro or idvd. What am I doing wrong? any suggestions

[galactica]

You can extract the video (.m2v) and audio (.ac3) files from a .vob using bbdemux [ http://sourceforge.net/projects/macbbdemux ]. Then just mux them back together and you have your .mpeg

so I will be able to export the .vob file as a mpeg2.

If you are just trying to get a .mpeg2 file from a .vob, use the bbdemux, its much easier. You will have to remux (put audio and video together) but its an easy step with ffmpegx. (tools tab, choose video file, choose audio file, and mux as what you want (dvd would be the default here, but if you want to make something out of this (svcd for example) you will need to change the audio to .mp2 and also the khz to get a standard SVCD audio file)

Essentially, what is it your trying to do, because this can often determine the method you should use, particulary when trying to save yourself time and headache ....

[WiseWeasel]

Extractor (http://denisx.dyndns.org/extractor/) is a more practical tool for the job, with a nice interface. If the VOBs are encrypted, you need to play the DVD with DVD Player first, but if it's already decrypted, you can just drag 'em in. The options are pretty self-explanatory. The site seems to be flaky, and I put up a mirror of his last version here: http://homepage.mac.com/wiseweasel/.cv/wiseweasel/Public/Extractor0.94.sit-link.sit. This version is pretty much as good as his latest one, minus a small bugfix for unicode filenames, if memory serves. I can put up the latest version later, if you want, and his site is still down.

[London Opium Bizzare]

Both are Great Ideas but bbDEMUX and Extractor do not allow you to compress mpeg-2 files down to a smaller size. I am trying to put a movie on one DVD, so I need that vob file smaller or to convert it to m2v that i can compress. I want to be able to work with it in DVD studio pro. Biggest problem is when i take the mpeg or VOB file into quicktime, the file is 5GB, but it only plays 6 minutes worth of the move which happens to be the same time of the last track on the movie. It is frustrating because Video LAN is the only play that plays the whole movie.

[WiseWeasel]

One option is to work with the current file with DVDSP, and then use DVD2OneX to shrink the VIDEO_TS folder output to under 4.37 GB. I'm not sure if they fixed the DVDSP incompatibility problem in the new version of DVD2OneX, but you could master the oversize VIDEO_TS folder with DVD2OneX, then extract the video and audio streams and master a DVD with DVDSP.

[llee782]

How about Transcoder (after you've used BBDemux)?

http://www.hillmanminx.net/transcoder/index.html