.mpg files and burning them to dvd question.

[stainedbeautie]

I want to burn some files to dvd, but the first time I burnt a dvd, I got the VIDEO_TS folder. Can you burn in a way where it will only show the .mpg when inserted into the computer and not the Video_TS folder? Or is this the only way for the dvd to play in your standalone dvd player? The reason I am asking this is because I don't want to keep the original .mpg on my hard drive once they have been burned, and I'm not to familiar with how to remove a seperate video from a video_ts folder once it has burned. If anyone can point me to a tutorial or program that explains this, that would be great.

If any of this is not clear, let me know. thanks.

[thecoalman]

the vob files are really just mpeg's with a different extension. They may be other technical differences I'm not aware of..... If it's a personal DVD you can usually just rip the vob to HDD and rename it with a .mpg extension.

In any event if renaming doesn't work you can use DVD Decrypter to rip it.

You can just burn to a data DVD as mpg. You'll need a DVD player that supports mpg playback, additionally you won't have any menus.

[lordsmurf]

the vob files are really just mpeg's with a different extension. They may be other technical differences I'm not aware of.

VOB files are more than just audio and video. They include navigation data and subtitles. You cannot just rename them MPEG. Maybe get lucky a few times, and it'll be okay, but generally not the way to work. Demux them properly.

[stainedbeautie]

so can I just extract the vob file from the dvd if i ever need seperatly? It really doesn't have to be .mpg for me.

[thecoalman]

Apparently no, my work with Vob's is limited hence my disclaimer above. According to the info LS provided (and now I know why first play worked all the time ) you can't. Thew VOB file contains additional data, it's just as easy to use DVD Decrypter and do it right.

There's probably 30 if not more tutorials on how to do this using DVD Decrypter and other applications. There's even different methods according to what you want to do with the resultant file. A lot of authoring apps will even allow you to import the entire DVD directly into them for reauthoring....

Look under the Guides section to the left.

To answer your original question, yes once authored you can delete the file on your machine. It can be extracted from the disc.

[stainedbeautie]

Apparently no, my work with Vob's is limited hence my disclaimer above. According to the info LS provided (and now I know why first play worked all the time ) you can't. Thew VOB file contains additional data, it's just as easy to use DVD Decrypter and do it right.

There's probably 30 if not more tutorials on how to do this using DVD Decrypter and other applications. There's even different methods according to what you want to do with the resultant file. A lot of authoring apps will even allow you to import the entire DVD directly into them for reauthoring....

Look under the Guides section to the left.

To answer your original question, yes once authored you can delete the file on your machine. It can be extracted from the disc.

thanks for that more complete description on how to do it

[Guest34343]

so can I just extract the vob file from the dvd if i ever need seperatly? It really doesn't have to be .mpg for me.

If the VOB is not encrypted, you can just copy it to your hard drive. Then you can use tools like DGMPGDec to process it. You can even use DGMPGDec on it without copying it to your hard drive!

There's no need for DVD Decrypter if the VOB is not encrypted.

[stainedbeautie]

so can I just extract the vob file from the dvd if i ever need seperatly? It really doesn't have to be .mpg for me.

If the VOB is not encrypted, you can just copy it to your hard drive. Then you can use tools like DGMPGDec to process it. You can even use DGMPGDec on it without copying it to your hard drive!

There's no need for DVD Decrypter if the VOB is not encrypted.

tried that program, but when I try and open up the myvob.avs file in VirtualDub it won't let me, the .txt is still at the end of the text document (myvob.avs.txt is what it says). I know that's not right, how do I get ris of the .txt extension so I can open it?

We'll make a script file called myvob.avs using a text editor. Later in this document I'll show you how to configure DGIndex to make the script automatically, but for now, you need to know the old-fashioned way. So put this text into a new text file you make called 'myvob.avs':

LoadPlugin("...\DGDecode.dll")
MPEG2Source("myvob.d2v")

Replace the path '...' in the first line with the path to the location where you placed DGDecode.dll.

Finally, use VirtualDub to open the 'myvob.avs' script file just as if it was an AVI file. That's it! You have your video and can navigate randomly on the VirtualDub timeline.

[borax]

Just use the windows explorer (or any other file manager) and rename the file myvob.avs.txt to myvob.avs

One more remark: To 'keep' the mpeg as 'original' as possible, it is the best to author each one into an own titleset (VTS) on the DVD.

[mats.hogberg]

If you have the space, you could author as Video DVD (with VIDEO_TS folder and related stuff) and add the mpg as data files.

/Mats

[stainedbeautie]

thanks guys I figured out how to do it.