How do I extract from VOB

[englishmik]

I hope you experts can help me.
My son was killed in a car accident 3 years ago and I have some digital camcorder footage of him. Rather than go through the video capture route I bought a stand alone DVD recorder and just went from camcorder to DVD without marking chapters. I now have a full DVD of each tape and would like to extract from the VOB's only the footage I want to use, to be able to re-auther into a DVD for my wife for Christmas. Is there a software program that will either split or let me extract the portions I need, or do I have to monitor each tape as its being recorded and mark portions I want to use.
Any help would be greatly appreciated

[ulapines]

Take a look here:

http://www.drdsystems.com/VideoReDo/

[SaSi]

There are two routes for what you are trying to achieve.

1. extract the video from the VOB files using an editor, mark and delete what you don't want to keep, save the resulting video as AVI, re-encode and author.

2. Extract the video from the VOB files using an MPEG editor, mark and delete what you don't want to keep, save the resulting video in MPEG2 format and use that directly with a DVD authoring tool.

The first route takes more time and tools (but there are reasons for it's existence). Also, you need to be careful with codec selection and settings to avoid degrading the picture and audio quality.

In your case, a good MPEG editor would save you from several steps. I would recommend the following:
1. Use SmartRipper or DVDDecrypter in file mode to extract the VOB files from the DVDs onto a single VOB file on disk.
2. Open that with Tmpgenc MPEG editor, edit out what you don't want and save the remaining video in MPEG-2 format.
3. Use a DVD Authoring program (DVDLab would be my reccomendation but Tmpgenc DVD Author is also good and powerful) to author a DVD with appropriate menus if you want any.

[englishmik]

Thank you both for such quick replies.
I have ripped the VOB's to hard drive already using DVDDecrypter. I have not tried Tmpgenc MPGEG editor before so I will give it a try. I had also not heard of VideoReDo before so am interested to find out how that works.
As always when I need some information the Internet community helps me out.
Thank You