Ripped Vob files in TMPGEnc

[Cole]

***NEWBIE TO USING VOB FILES***

Has anyone had this problem before?

I have ripped a couple of DVDs using Smart Ripper. This worked fine and the files even played in WMP. No problem there.

I loaded up the first file into TMPGEnc to ecnode to XVCD; excellent. Worked very well and the relult of that clip was perfect.

Loaded up the second clip and TMPGEnc and got an error message saying that the file was unsupported. Just to make sure, I rebooted my PC and tried again. Same problem.

I then tried another of the Vob files and this loaded onto TMPGEnc, but would not load up the Audio track with it (but the file played audio when viewed in WMP)

I downloaded the latest copy of TMPGEnc and the same thing would happen.

So I tried a second DVD. Again the same issues.

If this is any clue, from a DVD of ten VOB files, the first two worked and the last one, but the rest either would have video only or fail completley.

Is there another process I need to do to the VOB files (as in the Guides I looked into - DVD2AVI) as I was wondering was I lucky to get any straight into TMPGEnc in the first place?

[wulf109]

You need to rip the DVD as one large vob file. I believe the problem is that only vob #1 contains the header ID TMPEG needs to open the file,the other vob don't contain the header so TMPEG can't open them. I've used the one large file option. You may run into another problem caused by the "time stamp" used in vob files. Some vob files contain these and TMPEG will interpret a "time stamp" as the end of the file and end the encode prematurely.

[Kelso]

Yes. Change your settings to rip the DVD as one big VOB file. To avoid the "time stamp" problem, use the MPEG TOOLS in TMPGEnc to demux the VOB into a M2V video file and a sound file. Then use these two files in TMPGEnc for your re-encoding.

[wulf109]

Lately I've been making SVCD's with DVD2ONE. Select the 192bit audio track and compress to 800Mb's. Demultiplex,convert audio to 192bit mp2,multilex as an SVCD stream.

[Vejita-sama]

DVDs use a file structure NOT a file format. That one VTS (VOB series) might contain several different video clips. You can't cut/past VOB/DVD files like normal video.

What most people do is rip the DVD to the HD, then run DVD2AVI to generate a D2V file. This is a small file that acts 'like a virtual avi' to contect all the VOB files.

You can then open the D2V file in TMPGenc, and encode as normal. See the guides to the left for more info.

[imtigger2]

[quote="Vejita-sama"]DVDs use a file structure NOT a file format. That one VTS (VOB series) might contain several different video clips. You can't cut/past VOB/DVD files like normal video.


Actually, CAN cut VOB files like normal video, it is very easy to do with TMPGEnc DVD Author. You can cut out sections (commercials, etc..) of your VOB files frame-by-frame, without having to demux the .vob

As far as pasting... haven't tried it yet so I'm not sure if it does it or not.

Dan B
imtigger2

[Cole]

DVDs use a file structure NOT a file format. That one VTS (VOB series) might contain several different video clips. You can't cut/past VOB/DVD files like normal video.

What most people do is rip the DVD to the HD, then run DVD2AVI to generate a D2V file. This is a small file that acts 'like a virtual avi' to contect all the VOB files.

You can then open the D2V file in TMPGenc, and encode as normal. See the guides to the left for more info.

Thanks for all the advice, but I followed the advice here and from Seffy's guide that I mentioned in my first post.

Total success. My first ripped DVD to XVCD.

Strange thing, what worried me about DVD conversion was that it was going to be really complicated...

yes well...