HELP!!!! Problems watching/converting VOB

[BsMx]

I'm tryin' to convert few VOBs i downloaded of a concert. The thing is that the "DVD" i downloaded had 'extra features' and i deleted EVERYTHING but the concert VOBs (even the IFO and BUP files) and there are only 3 vobs left (VTS_01_1.VOB, VTS_01_2.VOB, VTS_01_3.VOB).

When I try to open them in MPEG Streamclip it said 'this video has streamcode breaks' (or something like that) and the files opens but there's no video, only audio. I used the 'timecode breaks fix' and everything OK, but still no image, so I tried to demux them but the M2V file is blank, a horrible black screen and of course the audio worked well. Tried to convert them to DV with MPEG Streamclip and Export2DV (MPEG2Works) and NOTHING, the same black screen.

VLC and Quicktime can't open the video, they show a black screen but the audio goes fine.

My question is: Do I have to download AGAIN the other files previously deleted to make this 3 VOB work?? or is there anything else I can do.

My problem is that I have to convert this stuff from PAL to NTSC to burn them and you know the rest, but i just CAN'T. every single program I have doesn't accept them.

Experts please HELP ME!!!

[albloom]

What version of MPEG2Works are you using? V4 converts
PAL to NTSC quite well (so I'm told).

[qshartle]

Isnt "DOWNLOADING" considered warez? I would mod your post before the mods get you.

Q

[AntnyMD]

MPEG Streamclip cant read the video properly most likely because of a damaged MPEG header. Before you redownload your concert, search the net for a Java program called NullPacketStripper. It will let you open the first vob, and will ask for the subsequent ones if you tick ON the option to do that. Shave off 500 milliseconds of the first vob and save the files as one large mpeg. Try opening that in Streamclip and see if it works. Its worth a try.

I get this a lot when I suck digital cable out of the box and into my Mac and thats how I fix it.

Needless to say, dont steal copyrighted material for which you have been granted no usage rights.

[terryj]

Ant,
what are you using to suck Digital Cable down?
I'm using my Canopus ADVC-100 as a go between
the cable box and my mac.
Is there something more straight through?

[AntnyMD]

Ant,
what are you using to suck Digital Cable down?
I'm using my Canopus ADVC-100 as a go between
the cable box and my mac.
Is there something more straight through?

I have a Firewire cable attached to my Mac and my cable settop box, a Motorola 6412 (http://broadband.motorola.com/dvr/dct6412.asp) from Comcast. In the latest Firewire SDK at Apple (http://developer.apple.com/sdk/#FireWireX), theres a capture app called AVSBrowser which draws in the MPEG transport streams from the box. From there, you can open them in MPEG Streamclip for editing (and for files with damaged headers, shave off a bit of the beginning with NullPacketStripper). VLC will of course play them with very minimal trouble. You can also transfer high definition programming, even if you don't have a high definition television monitor on which to watch the programs.

I do, so after I use NullPacketStripper to get rid of the null packets that pad transport streams, I edit them in MPEGStreamclip, and play them back through my JVC D-VHS and out to the HDTV, using another app from SDK20 called VirtualDVHS2.

The process is MUCH simpler now that it was in the previous SDK, #19.

[BsMx]

MPEG Streamclip cant read the video properly most likely because of a damaged MPEG header. Before you redownload your concert, search the net for a Java program called NullPacketStripper. It will let you open the first vob, and will ask for the subsequent ones if you tick ON the option to do that. Shave off 500 milliseconds of the first vob and save the files as one large mpeg. Try opening that in Streamclip and see if it works. Its worth a try.

I get this a lot when I suck digital cable out of the box and into my Mac and thats how I fix it.

Needless to say, dont steal copyrighted material for which you have been granted no usage rights.

thanks for your help, I'll try that

and of course i don't steal this concert was never released on DVD and this is a TV-Rip but authored to be a DVD.. you know what I mean

thanks to all !!

[Frobozz]

I have a Firewire cable attached to my Mac and my cable settop box, a Motorola 6412 (http://broadband.motorola.com/dvr/dct6412.asp) from Comcast. In the latest Firewire SDK at Apple (http://developer.apple.com/sdk/#FireWireX), theres a capture app called AVSBrowser which draws in the MPEG transport streams from the box. From there, you can open them in MPEG Streamclip for editing (and for files with damaged headers, shave off a bit of the beginning with NullPacketStripper). VLC will of course play them with very minimal trouble. You can also transfer high definition programming, even if you don't have a high definition television monitor on which to watch the programs.

Just to add a little to this, I've opened the TS stream from the AVSBrowser capture in MPEG Streamclip, chosen Export to MPEG (which saves an HD MPEG), dragged this to Toast 7 and had Toast make a 16:9 DVD with the 5.1 sound track from the HD cablecast.

[BsMx]

HI:

well, I wish AntnyMD could explain a bit better how NullPacketStripper works, cause I tried to use it as he said, shaving 500 miliseconds in the beginning, then choosed the "process file" or something like that and the app freezes and leaves me with a 32MB MPG file (unwatchable of course).

I tried MPEGITOR and it plays the video good (is the first app I can see the vid in) but when I export the vid to VOB the problem stays the same!

I'm downloading the other files needed to complete the full ''dvd'' cause I don't know what else to do

Any other options PLEASE???!!

[AntnyMD]

well, I wish AntnyMD could explain a bit better how NullPacketStripper works, cause I tried to use it as he said, shaving 500 miliseconds in the beginning, then choosed the "process file" or something like that and the app freezes and leaves me with a 32MB MPG file (unwatchable of course).

It sounds like you used NullPacketStripper exactly as I would have, and it didnt work. You know, sometimes you just come across some MPEG files that are just never gonna work, and you have to let them go. Its hard, I know, but it happens. I had my own example recently when I came across an 11 year old VHS of "Vanishing Son II" recorded at an amazingly-bad EP speed on cheap tape, and when I finally got the movie digitized, discovered that after 30 minutes, the movie went horribly out of sync .. to the point where station breaks were airing a full minute ahead of the audio ... It was an embarassing failure, and I'm destroying the DVD tomorrow.

[maetel99]

You might want to try extracting from the DVD files using Cinematize. It's a lot more solid than MPEG StreamClip. You will need to have the IFO file as well as the VOB files, but otherwise it should work fine.

[BsMx]

You might want to try extracting from the DVD files using Cinematize. It's a lot more solid than MPEG StreamClip. You will need to have the IFO file as well as the VOB files, but otherwise it should work fine.

I'll try that, I have the whole DVD now and it plays fine on "DVD Player" when I choose "open VIDEO_TS folder"... so, i guess ithere miht be a solution, if not, i'll have to do the same as Antny

thanks y'all, I'll keep you informed of the process!

[BsMx]

well, I really have to THANK you all for all your help and support

Cinematize saved my life (hehe) it also converted it directly to NTSC so I didn't have to do so much things

thanks!!!

[BernieR]

Ant,
what are you using to suck Digital Cable down?
I'm using my Canopus ADVC-100 as a go between
the cable box and my mac.
Is there something more straight through?

I have a Firewire cable attached to my Mac and my cable settop box, a Motorola 6412 (http://broadband.motorola.com/dvr/dct6412.asp) from Comcast. In the latest Firewire SDK at Apple (http://developer.apple.com/sdk/#FireWireX), theres a capture app called AVSBrowser which draws in the MPEG transport streams from the box. From there, you can open them in MPEG Streamclip for editing (and for files with damaged headers, shave off a bit of the beginning with NullPacketStripper). VLC will of course play them with very minimal trouble. You can also transfer high definition programming, even if you don't have a high definition television monitor on which to watch the programs.

I do, so after I use NullPacketStripper to get rid of the null packets that pad transport streams, I edit them in MPEGStreamclip, and play them back through my JVC D-VHS and out to the HDTV, using another app from SDK20 called VirtualDVHS2.

The process is MUCH simpler now that it was in the previous SDK, #19.

Hello,
in your process mentioned above does the stream stay in the digital domain until it exits the JVC player as component to the TV ?

Bernie

[AntnyMD]

Hello,
in your process mentioned above does the stream stay in the digital domain until it exits the JVC player as component to the TV ?

Bernie

Yes