How do I turn a MPEG2 file in to VOB?

[wings123]

I have made a few MPEG2 (DVD compliant, made w/ TMPEG) now I just found out that I can't burn straight MPEG file to make a viewable DVD. I need to convert them to VOB. How do I do that?

[jdizzy40]

Here is your answer:
Converting MPEG-2 files to DVD the Easy Way.

Tools Needed: TMPGEnc
IFOEdit
DVD Shrink 2.3
NERO 6 or suitable burning app

Step One: In TMPGENC, close out the project wizard window that pops up. Next click on file>MPEGTools, select De-multiplex. Then click browse and find your MPEG file you want to convert. Double click the video stream 0x00 and save the video part of your MPEG-2 to wherever you want and name it., making sure it has an .m2v extension. The video stream will now be saved. When complete, double click the audio_stream 0x00, but when you save it, first manually change the file to a .mpa extension. The audio stream will now be saved .

Step Two: Now open up IFOEdit and click on DVD Author>Author New DVD. Add the video and audio files you created in the above steps by clicking on the square boxes to the right of the dialogue box. You should now have your Video and Audio files with file extensions of .m2v and .mpa showing in the window. Now go to the bottom and where it says “Output Stream” and click on the square box to the right. Before doing this create an VIDEO_TS folder somewhere. This is where your output stream will create its files. Click okay. Your DVD structure will be created in this folder complete with VOB files etc. If the file is the way you want it. Burn with NERO 6. If the file is too big or you want to edit commercials out go to Step 3.

Step Three: Open up DVD Shrink 2.3. Click on open files and navigate to the folder where IFOEdit put your files. Double click the top file in the folder. Your video will now be opened up in the program with a preview showing at the bottom. Click re-author. Drag as many copies of your file into the DVD window (upper left). Highlight your first copy and then click on the Start/End icon at the top of the dialogue window. Use the start/stop function to trim out commercials etc. Do this with each copy of your file until you have all the commercials cut out. Need more copies, drags from bottom right to the top left. When you are completed. Click on back-up. DVD Shrink will now output to the folder you designate. Burn these files with Nero 6.

This process has worked well resulting in no audio/video snyc issues. It takes less time than you might think to complete. Works great when wanting to put several copies of a series on one disk. Note: If your total file size is in the red in DVD Shrink after all your editing, use the compression feature to bring your DVD down to green acceptable size limit. Good luck.

[wings123]

Nice! Thanks for the help.

[BobK]

Another option would be to get TMPGEnc DVD Author (or another authoring program). Load the mpeg's into that and create a DVD image on your hard drive- then burn to disk.