VOB2MPG Tool

[ChrissyBoy]

Use IE but to avoid any firewall/router issue make sure that the following is set:

[201flyer]

Thanks! That was the answer. The file is uploading now.....calculation says 4 hrs+ to upload. My cable service stinks on upload!

The file I'm uploading is about 5 min in length, but when I open it in VideoReDo it shows just slightly over 1 min, and playback freezes at 1 min. This file was originally captured by my Toshiba RD-XS32, then captured directly from the DVD by your program VOB2MPG tool, and then cut with "makesample."

[201flyer]

So after 3 hrs, I lost the connection. So I'll try again. I was only able to transfer 50mb.... Is something wrong?

[201flyer]

I decided to split up the file...so I'm sending 21 parts. At least if I disconnect again I won't have to start from the beginning. I used HJSPLIT.

[201flyer]

Man, I'm stumped. I cannot complete even 1 file that is only 10.4MB. It gets to 10.1 and just hangs.

Any ideas what might be going wrong here? I'm going through a linksys router, but no software firewall.

[ChrissyBoy]

use smartftp. If the connection drops it will resume your uploads.

[201flyer]

Thanks for the smartftp program advice. It worked quite well. All 21 parts are uploaded....awaiting your investigation.

[ChrissyBoy]

Ok. Thanks.

[ChrissyBoy]

I have tried your sample with my ptsfix build and it seems to work.

You can give it a try:

http://www.svcd2dvd.com/releases/VOB2MPG_PTSFIX.zip

Just put the two files in the same folder.

On this build, after the VOB2MPG bit you can then optionally apply the PTS fix to all the mpgs created. It is very rough at the moment, in that there is no progress. If it works for you i will smarten it up somewhat. FYI: The fixing should take around the same time as the first vob2mpg bit.

[201flyer]

Hello!

Tried....and it workes! Thanks for all of your hard efforts.

I do have a question, though. Do you think it would ever be possible to do this in 1 step and not have to write two files? Am I right in guessing that the whole file has to be extracted from the VOB before a time code fix is possible?

I did an experiment with Mpeg-Vcr. It will directly extract an mpeg2 file from a vob on a DVD. It is painfully slow (20 min to extract a 1,482MB file), but using the same vob that gives your program a time code problem, there isn't a problem with the file directly written this program. The downside for me is that it is only a single vob file, and not all vobs combined into 1 mpeg file from a particular VTS set.

My whole goal here is to be able to "quickly" edit out commercials and re-write a dvd using TMPGEnc DVD Author. Right now there are just too many steps to pretend that it is close to "quick!" Seems either the extraction from the DVD is too slow (Mpeg-Vcr), or the extraction has to move in 2 steps, extract, then rewrite with the correct time code. I think if you can find the answer for a 1 step process there would be more than a few people interested!

Thanks again !!!

[ChrissyBoy]

Well that is good news.

I can get you a new build where you have to click just the one button to give you the illusion that it is one step, but you are correct - it is two.

[201flyer]

Ha, ha, I like that "illusion." Especially if it could do it faster than Mpeg-Vcr, and even more importantly if it would combine all of the vobs in a vts (which Mpeg-Vcr can't do)! I shall be waiting....

So I take it that this tool would only output 1 file, but it would need the disc space to write two files, the first of which would be deleted after fixing the time code? I can imagine having an option box on the tool where one could select "rapid" mode, or "full processing mode" for files that one knows in advance would be troublesome re time code. Even better would be a tool which fixed the time code after each vts set was written. That way a DVD with multiple vts sets actually wouln't take 8+ GB of disc space to process. Or perhaps there could be an option to process one vts set at a time, rather than everything on the dvd.

Well I hope you have time to do this. I would be more than happy to donate towards such a finished project!

[ChrissyBoy]

I suspect it would do all of the above.

Leave it with me.

[nbarzgar]

Hey chrissyboy,

great tool, just tried it, thanks a lot!!

[crowmaine]

.... after fixing the time code? ...

Sorry to be a late comer to the party, but use VideoReDo's "QuickStream Fix" Tool. It will correct your timings. It seems that some DVD recorders 'jump' around a lot while recording. These timings are not corrected when the disc is 'finalized'.

You can use VRD's "Batch" function to do multiple vts's to mpg's and apply Ad-Detective (to the output to produce .VPrj files). After the batch is set up, you can save the script and run them later! No more CPU idle time while you are away!

If you get creative, check out VideoReDo's "COM Interface". It will allow you to build a script file to keep you form overworking your mouse finger.
Which leads me into my question for Chrissyboy...

Chrissyboy,
This program is great!

My request is to add a COM interface so it can be scripted with VideoReDo or other apps. Thanks!

And thanks again for your wonderful app! What a time saver! Keep coding!

[jetli68]

i just use dvdycrypter to ripp the vobs into one sngle file then use a converting tool to convert vob file to mpg

[sunmanking]

man,

your tool _rules_!!! it's just what i was looking for. what 208KB can do!!!

thanks!

sunmanking

[figgehedberg]

Previous subject in Newbie section. Got recommended to post these querie here.

Hi!

I'm completely new to this forum and could use some help. I've been searching and searching for the last few weeks for a simple program that can convert my own recorded DVD's to a format that I can do some simple editing with. Since I'm quite familliar with both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements the idea of a similarly simplified video editing program (Premiere Elements) was quite appealing. But after contacting Adobe on the matter of the possibility for Premiere Elements converting vob files to any other format I was refered to....yours truely VideoHelp.com.

Scanning through topics and posts the last week in this forum I finally found a program (VOB2MPG) that seemed to do exactly (or part of) what I needed. With a simple conversion I should now be able to work in Windows Movie Maker 2/Vegas 4.0...but no.
As soon as the files are finished converting I try and run them in WMP10 but get a error message saying "Cannot allocate memory because no size has been set" and then "Runtime Error! R6025 pure virtual function call".
I've searched for any solution to the problem but not been able to find any...what do I do?

I have already tried several other conversion programs (freeware) such as AutoGordianKnot.2.20, DVDx, avi.NET v1.4, ReJig, dvd connexit, Virtual Dub Mod.....they are too complicated for me (mind you, as previously noted, I'm a complete newbie in this matter).....

VOB2MPG would be perfect if I could get it the converted files to work, but how????

Any sort of help would be very much appreciated...

Fred

[ChrissyBoy]

Try running the resultant mpeg through VideoReDo's QuickStream Fix.

[nrmf]

anything new on this tool.

thank you for your time and work.

[smik]

I am confused with this program - first of all, I do not get separate mpgs for each vob file, I get one 3.9gb mpg which contains the entire film, runtime 1 hour 42 minutes, named vts_01.mpg.

Secondly, any PC media player displays the vts_01.mpg perfectly, but that's about it. If I try to convert the vts_01.mpg to vcd or svcd in Tmgpenc, all Tmpgenc sees is about 2 minutes of video and that is all it encodes. If I open the file in Avicodec or Mediainfo, it shows 143mbs of video and 3gbs of audio.

Not to be redundant, but since the entire film in that file plays in WMP and MPC, then how do I convert it to a standard compliant mpg if all the converter can see is only 2 minutes of the film?

Is there a simple program that will extract the mpg from the vob files and give me a useful file to work with? Searching for anything that will convert vob to mpg or at least something useable always brings me back to vob2mpg, which is why I am posting this question here. Thanks for any helpful replies.

[ChrissyBoy]

am confused with this program - first of all, I do not get separate mpgs for each vob file, I get one 3.9gb mpg which contains the entire film, runtime 1 hour 42 minutes, named vts_01.mpg.

You get an mpeg per TitleSet. (i.e per vobset not per vob)

Is there a simple program that will extract the mpg from the vob files and give me a useful file to work with? Searching for anything that will convert vob to mpg or at least something useable always brings me back to vob2mpg, which is why I am posting this question here. Thanks for any helpful replies.

Well have you tried VideoReDo's Quickstream fix on the mpeg from VOB2MPG or have you tried the "PTSFIX version" (https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1237140#1237140)?

[ChaunceyK]

Hiya CB,

Just discovered your tool, and it looks like it could be the goose that lays the golden egg for my needs! Well, one of my many needs. Anyway...

I immediately grabbed a dvd & started converting. Nice & fast, 20 minutes is all it took to convert my vob's into 4 mpegs. But I can't do anything with them. Can't watch them with Media Player, can't edit them with TMPGenc Plus or TMPGenc DVD Author (my tools of choice). Have you heard of these problems, any settings maybe that I can change?

[Jikchung]

tool=TMPGEnc_DVD_Author]TMPGenc DVD Author[/url] (my tools of choice). Have you heard of these problems, any settings maybe that I can change?

Have you read this thread, including the post above yours? I believe some of that's been covered here.

[ChaunceyK]

Hmmm...after re-reading it all again, I came to the conclusion why I thought the resulting mpegs would be usable for my TMPG programs...

"These can be used in SVCD2DVD"

...I mistook this to mean that SVCD2DVD was *a* program to do something with them, not *THE* program to do something with them. Oops.

As for VideoReDo Plus, I've just requested a Trial Key, so when I get it, I'll try it.

[ChrissyBoy]

The point here is that several programs can take the output from VOB2MPG as is (SVCD2DVD is just one of them) some can't. It is to do with the timestamps in the mpeg. VideoReDo will fix these for you and so will the PTSFIX version of the tool mentioned earlier.

[smik]

Well have you tried VideoReDo's Quickstream fix on the mpeg from VOB2MPG or have you tried the "PTSFIX version" (https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1237140#1237140)?

Well, all I can say is "duh". I did read the entire thread and did not equate the editing problem with mine. Now I tried the ptsfix and I stand corrected, I got exactly what I wanted, thank you ChrissyBoy!!

[phoenixpharms]

Hi, I am a complete newbie. I asked a duplication company to put video on dvd so it could be edited, but they didn't. So I went on line and searched till I found this program. I've now created a mpg file, but it isn't showing the different clips, it plays too fast, how or where do I go from here to create clips? I have roxio and windows movie maker, that's it for programs, can't buy new software.

[tropicub]

Howdy! I am new to this forum. I downloaded and tried VOB2MPG, and I love it! However, I am now running into a problem. When I attempt to convert files, the program now says, "0 VOB sets, 0 minutes" and does not convert anything. If I click the "start" button a second time, the program freezes. I have tried rebooting, but no change. I tried removing the program and doing a fresh download, but no change.

Does anyone have any ideas? I searched the archive for this forum/topic, but did not find a similar problem described. Thanks!

Tropicub in Texas

[ChrissyBoy]

Can you show the contents of your VIDEO_TS folder you are trying to process?