Making a DVD with VOB and Mpeg files?

[bigscaryrobot]

Hey all,

I just got a DVD burner so im new to this. I wanted to make a DVD with no menus. I just want it to start when I put it in. This is going to be a trailer disc. What I do is I master .mov movie trailers and cnovert to DVD with tmpge. I also have some VOB sound trailers (THX, DTS, etc) that I want to add. At the end of the process I want to have a DVD that will play movie trailers and then a sound trailer. How can i do this with the different files? Can I burn a DVD with mpeg and vob files? Any help would be great!

Thanks
-BSR

[reboot]

DVDLab Pro will do it.

[underwurlde]

Yo!

VOB files are just containers for MPEGI / MPEGII video streams and audio streams such as AC3 / MPEG LayerIII

DVDs require (at the very least) a VOB file & extract these streams and play them...

Read Reboot most excellent guide on how to then author a DVD as he suggests.

Andy

[bigscaryrobot]

Thanks guys. When I rip the VOB files, will it keep it's sound and anamorphic properties when I reburn?

-BSR

[reboot]

Yes, you're not encoding anything, just getting the mpeg out of it's "carrying case" (the .vobs).
FYI, DVDLab can import .vobs, and join them as one continuous movie.

[bigscaryrobot]

Thanks reboot. I'll follow your guide. I'll probably get lost and burn down my house though

-BSR

[reboot]

Before you set anything afire, post questions here.
I check in about every hour or so during the day.

[nerys]

what about the other way. my PVR recoprded )PC based pvr) recorded some mpeg2 files and to MALE vpb's out of these I also need all the suport files (bup ifo etc..) so that DVD Shrink will see it properly so O can shrink it (its 16gig (super bowl)

I usually only play with mpeg1 but for this I wanted to dabble with mpeg2 since I wanted to make a dvd video not just a dvd's with mpg's on it and figured go higher quality from the get go

Chris Taylor
http://www.zodiacreview.com/

[reboot]

WTF are "MALE vpb's" ?
Load your mpegs into dvdlab, compile, shrink, burn.

[lechtin]

I don't usually go for wizard-based, all-in-one solutions, but to create a simple DVD with no menus out of anything, WinAVI converter is hard to beat. I can dump a list of mpeg, divx, avi files and get a ready-to-burn VIDEO_TS folder. It's even faster at encoding from divx to VOB than Mainconcept is at encoding divx to MPEG2. I'm just not sure about importing VOBs, but I think it would do it.

[reboot]

Yes, WinAVI will import .vob's.
It may be faster, but it's not better

[nerys]

alas tmpgenc dvd author appears to have a 9gig limit it will not make a dvd larger than that so I will have to chunk the file into smaller parts and then vob it and then recombine and shrink it (will never use dvd standard record quality again

all I wanted was something to make vobs so I could shrink and edit with dvd shrink.

I will looking into the winavi program.

I was hopeful for dvd lab since it will let me make OUT of spec dvd's but it does not support mpg1

DOLT that should have been MAKE Vob's (sloppy fingers

Chris Taylor
http://www.zodiacreview.com/

[reboot]

Yes, dvdlab will import mpeg-1 files, and let you reauthor them. It will put up a warning, but this can be ignored, and should still play on most players.
DVDLab will also take files larger than 9 gig, and output the structure to use shrink.

[nerys]

oooooohhhhhh gonna have to try this this must be new a year ago there was no mpg1 support

Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/

[reboot]

Let me clarify, DVDLab Pro will accept mpeg-1. I haven't used standard version in over a year.

[nerys]

dvd lab does but I get the imjplication that it wants to transcode the audio. I will look into pro.

Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/

[reboot]

Audio has to be transcoded, no matter what you use (pretty much).
Just rip audio from the file, transcode to AC3 in ffmpeggui and import that to dvdlab, or let dvdlab transcode.
Either way will work, but AC3 is much smaller, leaving more room for video.

[nerys]

No it does not "have" to be transcoded the software just insists on it grrrr

then its just not worth my time sadly. I have WAY to many gigs of mpg1's to bother transcoding (would LITERALLY take thousands upon thousands upond thousands of hours) and then I would have to maintain TWO copies one as mpg1 (source) and one transcoded in case I have to burn again. no thanks.

why will none of these program LET me do it without transcoding I am almost CERTAIN dvd players would play such a disc just fine. I would at least like the oppurtunity to find out

heck JUST the video from our trip to cancun totals nearly 20gig

if people want to see my video on dvd they will just have to get a dvd player that can handle mpg on dvd ie as files.

Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/