Audio glitches when joining files - why?

[Glorfindel]

I have a one-hour wedding video that I want to get from DV tape onto DVD.

To save time, I decided to encode the video using a standalone DVD recorder at its maximum quality setting, then copy the resultant VOB files over to my PC so that I could create proper menus, add some Easter eggs and then author a professional-looking disc.

The problem I've got is that rather than record the video as one single file, the DVD recorder has broken it up into five files. When you play the disc back in a DVD player you don't notice any joins, but when you copy the individual VOBs over to a PC, there are very short audio glitches at the end of each of them.

It seems to be impossible to rejoin them in the PC (I've been using Womble MPEG-VCR) without there being a glitch at the edit point. A lot of the breaks between files are during speech, and so whole words are being lost and replaced with a digital audio "splat" kind of noise.

Does anyone have any idea how it's possible to get round this? As I say, if you play the disc back in a DVD player the joins are seamless, but I need to get all the VOBs off and rejoin them inside my PC, and if you do that the joins are suddenly very noticeable indeed.

[Epicurus8a]

Try this, it always works for me: Use DVD Decrypter (IFO MODE/no file splitting), then you'll endup with one large VOB. The VOB should work well in WOMBLE MPEG VIDEO WIZARD.

FYI: DVD Decrypter can also Demux the audio and video streams for you. And If you need an MPEG2 file, re-mux it with TMPGEnc.

DVD Decrypter can be very handy. Study the guides carefully.

Good Luck and Happy New Year!

[Glorfindel]

Epicurus - you are a total star! Works like a charm. Many thanks!

[yg1968]

I seem to be suggesting this for every post but VideoRedo is another option. It can join VOB or mpeg files into one mpeg file. It has a sync option which ensures that the joined mpeg is not out of sync. I have had more luck with this program than other programs.