Toasting VOBs

[DeadLily]

I'm trying to Toast several VOB files which have alternate soundtracks and subtitles. (I've verified these exist with Mac's DVD Player). When Toast is finished with them, the subtitles and extra soundtracks are gone. How can I keep them?

[maetel99]

Use the Data tab in Toast and not the Video tab. Make sure to put all the VOB and IFO files into a folder named "VIDEO_TS" at the root level, and check the DVD-ROM button in the drawer on the left.

[DeadLily]

Already tried that, and it doesn't work. I'm trying to combine several individual episodes onto one DVD, which were ripped with MacTheRipper. If I just throw the VOBs and IFOs into a VIDEO_TS folder, the DVD player makes no sense of it. (Yes, I'm renumbering them so they don't duplicate.)

So again, the Video tab will accept a complete VIDEO_TS folder with one episode in it, or a single VOB file of one episode, and it will let me make a menu to choose them with. But the subtitles and alternate soundtracks are either being stripped out or made inaccessible in the process. How can I prevent that?

[AntnyMD]

The tool you need to effectively do what you're expecting is DVD2OneX and its Join feature.

[DeadLily]

Yep, that works. I don't get to make a menu, but it works. Thanks.

I gotta say... aside from its solid ability to burn discs, Toast and its "features" is a big disappointment. Its compressor is terrible, and it meddles with most of what you feed to it. For the price, I would expect better.

[slanko]

Hi all... this answers the question I was about to post, but here's another- Did you find you lost much quality joining the .vobs with dvd2oneX? And didn't it just make one big vob file rather than being able to select individual episodes? What we need is ifoedit for mac, except it doesn't exist... and VIDEO_TS... what does the TS stand for?!
Thanks,
Slanko.
xxx

[thoughton]

The results from dvd2oneX's join mode are the same quality as the original vobs. It makes a video_ts folder, not one large vob. No experience with ifoedit, so no comment other than to look at PGCEdit or if you have a ton of cash TFDVDedit (i think it's been renamed to MyDVDEdit). TS stands for transport stream.

[AntnyMD]

Actually in this case it stands for "title set" ... If you want to rip out individual episodes of a TV series DVD, you may need another tool for that, like yade X. Can you explain a bit more about what your final goal is?

[ffooky]

If I just throw the VOBs and IFOs into a VIDEO_TS folder, the DVD player makes no sense of it. (Yes, I'm renumbering them so they don't duplicate.)

If you want to do it that way you need to put the renamed VTS_**_*.*** files in the new VIDEO_TS folder and run tocgen <mywebpages.comcast.net/galactica/Archive.sit> on that folder to create valid VIDEO_TS.BUP and VIDEO_TS.IFO files.

How you then access the individual films on your standalone will, I believe, vary from model to model. FWIW, I use the DIGEST key on my remote.

[thoughton]

Actually in this case it stands for "title set" ...

Oops, thanks for the correction

[slanko]

My intentions are to put episodes of a TV series onto one DVD, maybe with a menu screen at the start... The files are currently AVI, but I need to convert to .vob to play it on my standalone...

[AntnyMD]

The latest version of Toast 6 should be your easiest route, provided your avi's play in QuickTime with sound. If not, download the latest DivX component and it should convert fine. You'll get a crude menu (but the background is pretty!) but the menu is generated automatically. Its easy to put the episodes in the order you wanted, and theres a little slider to pick the frame you want for menu thumbnails.

[slanko]

Yay! That worked fine. Thanks... I've been fannying around for ages and it was there all along. Good old Toast.
Now the next step is to learn to build a better menu screen... maybe an animated one. Suggestions?

[terryj]

For that slanko, You'll need to convert the AVIS into QT MOVs,
and then look at moving up to iDVD or best, move up to
DVD Studio Pro.