Merge / Join Vobs

[jjulio1]

Does any of you know a soft that can join / merge vobs, but also can show us the lenth of each vob in frames or time, because I would like to mark a chapter between each match.

[jimmalenko]

http://members.dodo.net.au/~jimmalenko/test.htm guides you through joining VOBs. Each VOB you merged will be marked as a new chapter point in the new set of files, so all you'd have to do is use something like ChapterXtractor to output the chapter points to a text file. This output is the frame number of each chapter.

[mats.hogberg]

Forgive me, but I've never found a reason to join VOB files - why would you like to do that?

/Mats

[jimmalenko]

Forgive me, but I've never found a reason to join VOB files - why would you like to do that?

/Mats

One example:
It makes a process such as making a DVD-10 into a DVD-9 easy. Say you've got VTS_01_0.IFO, BUP & VOBs on both sides of the flipper disc, and you want to put the whole movie onto a DVD-9 because a) you can't be fooked getting up to flip it over, and b) DL media is a bit more affordable these days. So you join the VOBs using this method (which then makes the whole movie one title and not two) and retains all chapter points for a completely seamless play through the join and a movie-only, play-on-insert backup ready to burn. Pretty slick

[mats.hogberg]

Ah - thank's! I'll keep this in mind for the day I get a D/L burner! (not that I got any flippers, but who knows!)

/Mats

[jimmalenko]

That's only one example that sticks readily in my mind - There's probably a number of other situations, such as making "Best Of" film clip music DVDs ...... or making "sampler" DVDs for display purposes or something ...... (both of which you could probably do in any authoring software you choose, mind you) but if you just want a quick, each-VOB-is-a-chapter, no menus solution, it's a free way of doing it.

[jjulio1]

After we do so, does any of you know if while we import a vob from dvd-lab, it can come with chapter marks?

[jjulio1]

I did try, and it didn't work. As jimmalenko said above, I guess we should use ChapterXtractor to then after import the chapters marks / points from (with) the dvd-lab (p.e.), because only import a chaptered vob file, isn't enough.

[jjulio1]

For sure, the chapters are never in the vob files, but in the ifo ones, and I am afraid that the dvd-lab can't work / handle with these ifo ones. :d

[jjulio1]

This doesn't start / appears in my computer, jimmalenko

[jjulio1]

It worked now. It was because I haven't renamed the files correted.

[jimmalenko]

It worked now. It was because I haven't renamed the files correted.

Funny how following the guide to the letter makes it work

[jjulio1]

Thanks a lot. I guess all will work now.

[Caple]

Can I use this guide to join VOB files from a standalone DVD recorder?
I have just the VOB files, no IFO file or anything else.
Example: a show recorded on a standlone recorder and I have two VOB files from the same song. I want to join them like it was never separated, so it does not "jump" on the merged point.
Is it possible when having just the VOB files?

[jjulio1]

Too bad, too bad, too bad. I guess that merge / join mpeg or vobs uselly makes us loose sincronization. audio x video.

[jjulio1]

I am sorry everybody, but I am thinking now that the problem is with the dvd-lab, The demux of it. I think it does something with our audio that does this sincronization problem.

[jimmalenko]

Is it possible when having just the VOB files?

That's exactly the point of this guide


@jjulio1:
I haven't had any synch problems when using this method, but I use TMPGEnc DVD Author so maybe that's why.

EDIT:

BTW, you know about the button, don't you ?

[jjulio1]

See my friends, I don't understand much about those headers. The original vob was made by the tmpgenc dvd.