How to make DVD from VOB files?

[ktnwin]

I have searched for the GUIDE on this but there is none.

There was a guide about making a DVD from VOB trailers and I have used it quite succesfully. The only issue is the resulting DVD does not really work the way WE all expect it to work.
Here are details:

1) I got a number of VOBs, let say 10 , each is a song with multiple audio stream (2 or 3)

2) I use the method for making DVD from VOB trailers and I got a DVD with 10 chapters, each with their respective audio streams, none of them is lost.

3) When playing on a stand alone DVD player, I can select different AUDIO as expected. To select a chapter, I must press the numeric key, for example 5 to play chapter 5. This is also expected . I cannot use the NEXT or PREV keys to go to the next chapter or previous chapter. These keys always bring me back to chapter 1 which is annoying.

I have tried a few other software (PS8, neoDVD) but these only support one audio stream, i.e. they only keep the first audio stream.

Does anyone of you know a way to do this (tools and procedure) ?
thanks

[US Guy]

Sounds like you wish to make Karaoke DVD. I am not familiar with this. But if you do a serious search again, I am sure you will find what you are looking for.

[Baldrick]

You could demux(split to audio and video) the vobs with PgcDemux and reauthor with dvd-lab pro, dvdauthorgui, gui for dvdauthor, ulead dvd workshop or dvdstyler. They all support multiple audio streams.

[wulf109]

Did you rename the 10 files and then merge them with VOBEDIT. After VOBEDIT created the vob files then run IFOEDIT to create the reqired if files?

[guns1inger]

You don't have 10 chapters, you have 10 titles. This is why next and previous don't work as you expect them to. Baldrick is right. Demux and author properly, instead of trying to make a frankenstein disk out of other peoples parts.

[ktnwin]

As I mentioned, I have use the VobEdit method to join the VOBs, this gives a playable DVD disc with 10 titles (I though they were chapters, now I remembered).

I use VobEdit to demux these VOB files into one M2V and two AC3 streams for each VOB file. Then I reauthor all these with ReelDVD.

The issue is: if these 10 VOBs came from the same DVD discs, then everything works as I planned.
However, for any VOB that came from a different DVD disc, ReelDVD reject the AC3 files as the sampling rate is not the same as the first AC3 file imported into ReelDVD.

Certainly, I can convert AC3 to WAV, then let ReelDVD converts them to AC3 with the sampling rate I specified. But I am trying to avoid that steps (converting AC3 to WAV then back to AC3).

Why do I do all this: I like to put my collection of karaoke songs (from various DVD discs) on one DVD. And my resulting DVD will have audio1: music only, audio2: musc+vocal. Note on the original DVDs, some discs have audio1: music only, and some discs have audio1: music + vocal.

[wulf109]

If you merged the 10 movies with VOBEDIT you have vob files only,no ifo files. IFOEDIT will create the ifo from the vob files that VOBEDIT created. There's no need to re-author. The files IFOEDIT creates can be burned and played. Remember there is a very specific renaming required for VOBEDIT to work.

[ktnwin]

Oh, the VobEdit / IFOEdit method is what I have been using for at least a year and result in playable DVD discs. However, it has the issues I mentioned in my very first post (PREV / NEXT keys do not work).

The reason for this thread is to explore a different way to make such a DVD that can be navigated with PREV/NEXT keys as well as numeric keys.

So far, I can summarize the new method to be:
1) demux each VOB file to M2V and AC3 (2 AC3 per VOB) - this is the easiest step.
2) re-author these M2V & AC3 using another authoring software (ReelDVD for example). This consists of dragging and dropping objects to the project space.
3) if ReelDVD rejects an AC3 file (meaning not same sampling rate as the very first AC3 file it accepted), then convert AC3 -> WAV and import the WAV into ReelDVD (which automatically convert to AC3 with correct sampling rate). [this is an extra step with my new method, ReelDVD expects all AC3 in the same disc to have same sampling rate]


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[ktnwin]

I also forgot to ask. With the VobEdit/IFOEdit method, is there any way to use IFOEdit to change the navigation control to PREV/NEXT keys work ?

I would this is the simplest method.

Can someone offer an advise here ?

[aguillon]

The way you are authoring your files, the 10 clips end up as separate titles. By default, the PREV/NEXT keys take you to the previous/next chapter, not to the prev/next title.

2 solutions: either you merge all your titles into one and put chapter points at the beginning of each song, or change the default PREV/NEXT definitions within your DVD. If you use DVD Lab Pro for instance, you can redefine the navigation keys to do just that. Take note, however, that you will lose the ability to navigate chapters if you do so. I guess you don t really care since these are short clips anyway and you probably do not wish to set chapter points.