Importing DVD or VOBs into DVD Architect 3.0

[Rychezilla]

Hey fellas,

Just started using Sony DVDA 3.0 and really love it. However one feature I miss that Ulead has "import disc". I want to take a disc I made on my set-top and import into DVDA to add some cool menus and music. Is there a trustworthy way to do this. I was thinking of using Decrypter and then changing the VOB extensions to MPG. I tried it and I was able to load the files but I don't think that is a reliable way of doing it. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.[/b]

[Rychezilla]

This just sucks. I love this program but will be useless to me if I can't load vobs to it without re-encoding everything. I tried just renaming them to mpeg and it seemed to work but it imports them as separate tracks. No good either. I need them to be one movie. Crap! How can such a great program leave something like "import disc" out?

[guns1inger]

You can't just change the extension to mpeg and expect it to work. VOBs can contain more than data. Use DVD Decrypter or Vobedit or similar to demux the video and audio out of the VOBs so you can use them in DVDA. If you want to do it more easily, use TDA instead.

[Rychezilla]

Thanks guns. I normally would use TDA but I really need some of the menu features from DVDA. My friend suggested I use DVD Audio ripper and rip the audio file that way and then load into DVDA along with the video from the VOB IFO and I think it worked! I was a little worried about the audio quality but we will see. Of course now it says it will take over 11 hours to render my simple test DVD. I'm getting frustrated with this prog.

If this doesn't work I will follow your suggestion and then maybe throw my PC into the ocean.