dvd compilation from vob - no recompression

[google_poster]

Hi - sorry if this was answered somewhere else, but I couldn't find it exactly.
I own a bunch of DVDs and would like to make a compilation DVD of various scenes from different DVDs. I'd like to keep the quality high, so I don't want to uncompress/recompress the video. It seems like I need to extract the MPEG2 streams from the VOB files, cut them, and re-burn them all without uncompressing and recompressing. Any ideas or guides?
Thanks,
Bob

[andkiich]

Check out the tools section. There are a couple tools over there that will do what you want.

[aftergard]

I have posted a similar question.

Whats wrong with certain people?!?

If I am not mistaking this is a "NEWBIE" section, right??!

Therefore, if a newbie is looking for help, in a nice way, why not give him what is asking???

I have been searching the TOOLS Section but I did not find what we need for this task. I know that the reason why could not find anything, is the lack of experience, so, please if you wahnt to give help, be little bit more precise.

Thanks

[FilthyCherry]

DVD Shrink when in re-author mode will let you select start and end points. I haven't tried cherry picking chapters but that might work. Oh and a ripper like DVD Decrypter will let you select the chapters to copy to HDD so with Nero Burn ROM you could compile and burn them too I suppose.

[housepig]

just did this for the first time last night.

you can use ChopperXP (freeware) to cut your vob files directly, no demuxing needed.

import your edited vob files into DVD Lab without demuxing, and author.

the only issues I've seen so far :

a. when a scene I want spans more than one .vob file, there is a little hitch when it switches to the next movie (I could probably get around that with demuxing, combining the files and remuxing, but I'm not that worried about it)

b. if you have vob files that are named vts_x_x.vob, DVD Lab is not happy about importing just one .vob out of sequence, it wants other files imported as well. If you rename the .vob to something like movie_01.vob, it has no such problems.

[bigb_y2g]

Here's how I'd it no remuxing involved:

1) Get a peice of paper and while you are watching the chapters you want, write down the title/chapter number.
2) Use DVD Decrypter (IFO Mode) or SmartRipper (FILE Mode) and check the chapters that you want extracted.
3) Name a folder VIDEO_TS and put all your VOB's in it. Rename your VOBs in the order you want VTS_01_1, VTS_01_2, VTS_01_3, etc.
3a) Use Chopper XP to edit any VOBs
4) Use VobEdit to join your VOBs
5) Open IfoEdit and click Create IFOs, Select your VOB file(s).
6) Once that's done, click on the VIDEO_TS.IFO and VTS_01_0.IFO IfoEdit made and click Get VTS Sectors for each.
7)Put the VIDEO_TS folder into your favorite burning program.
8)Done

Now if you want a main menu you'll have to demux the VOB files to m2v and AC3 and use an authoring program that supports these files and has menu creation. Check other posts for all that.

[google_poster]

Thanks everybody - let me summarize what I did, and I couldn't have done it without your help.

I ended up using dvdshrink to extract from the original DVD's - I just set it for no compression. It was much easier to use than any of the other tools, and let me cross chapter boundaries, etc.

For creating the new dvd, I tried two methods. I'll probably continue to use them both depending on what I'm looking for in the compilation.

The first was vobedit/ifoedit as mentioned by bigb_y2g, and explained at How to author & burn a DVD from VOB trailers/files -- this was a simple dvd with no menu, etc. Each part from the different movies ended up being a chapter.

The second was to use DVD-Lab as mentioned by housepig. This was pretty cool (menus etc.), but more work than ifoedit/vobedit. Each part from the different movies ended up being a title.

Again, many thanks for helping a newbie out!