VOB Files

[johnnymoses]

I hope this is the appropriate forum for this question.

If I want to author a DVD using VOB files can it be done. Is there a program that will import separate VOB files from various discs & allow you to create a menu etc. much like what you would do with mpegs?

I use Video Studio 7.01 to create DVD's of Mpegs. However, now that I have created many dvd's of home movies I'd like to be able to select parts of a number of DVD's and put them on 1 DVD with menus.

Thanks,
Johnny

[Tommyknocker]

There are two programs I know of will open VOBs. TMPGEnc can open some, but not all VOBs. Virtual Dub mod can open all of them, and you can frameserve them to TMPGEnc. Once you get them into into TMPGEnc, the rest, as they say, is easy.

[jaxxboss]

Im pretty sure dvd author can use vobs too. As a matter of fact, Im almost positive Ive done it before.

[Gazorgan]

If you have the VOB's, then you can strip out the streams (M2V and AC3) then drop those into an Authoring app, like TMPG Author.

[video-phile]

DVD-lab accepts vobs. Tmpgenc DVD author also accepts vobs (not all). Ulead DVD Moviefactory accepts DVDs.
In my opinion DVD-lab will do the authoring without the need of reencoding, provided your vobs are not multi-audio or multi-subbed.
Refer also to https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=186727.

[johnnymoses]

Thanks for all of the comments. I guess I need to do some research since I was hoping for a simple solution. I thought there might be a program that would just handle the vobs directly.

In Video Studio 7.01 I was able to import the vob (after I renamed it .mpg) but it had no sound. Then I ran the vob through Virual Dub Mod and stripped out the Wav file from the AC3 stream. Then added the Wav file to the product in VS 7.01.

This is fine but in this manner the whole thing will have to be reprocessed and therefore diminish quality. I'd like to be able to not lose quality.

I did have a question about Virtual Dub Mod. Tommyknocker wrote of Frameserving from Virtual Dub Mod into TMPGEnc. Can you point me to a tutorial that would assist in doing that. I tried to use frameserve but never produced anything.

Thanks again for all the help.
Johnny

[Tommyknocker]

Click here.

[mats.hogberg]

This is fine but in this manner the whole thing will have to be reprocessed and therefore diminish quality. I'd like to be able to not lose quality.

No, that's actually not so. DVD-lab takes VOBs, but just as a nice gesture - it demuxes it to elementary streams so the end result is the same as if you've demuxed them yourself before loading them in DVD-lab.
But, there's no decoding/encoding involved in the process - thus no decrease in quality.
So, if you have a VOB, just demux the tracks (A/V) you want to keep, and then use them as A/V source in your authoring app par preferance.

/Mats