DVD content is in 78 vob files!

[Deaks]

I have a non-commercial educational DVD that I want to extract to mpeg1 files so that tutors can use clips in powerpoint etc... The programme on the DVD runs for 50min and is in 78 vob files that are all out of sequence! ie. VTS_01_0.VOB is the first clip, followed by VTS_27_0.VOB, then VTS_13_0.VOB etc...

Is there any way I can tell in what order they should be played so I can put them back together and render an mpeg1?

Deaks.

[mats.hogberg]

Depends on how it's done - is it just one title, rip with DVDDecrypter in IFO mode, and set VOB splitting to none, and you should be fine.

/Mats

[Deaks]

No luck. DVDDecrypter also shows 78 titles so just rips them seperately too.

[hotwings]

huh, that's a tough one if the title sets are split even in ifo mode.

I suppose there is an easier and much less tedious answer out there, so at the risk of looking foolish:

if it were me and I really had to get this done I would play the video in powerdvd or another equivalent that gave me information on the title set like duration, using the next button to skip to the next title and making a note of it's duration (i assume the video let's you skip from title set to title set like chapter skips).

Using this information I would try to match it up with the likely titles in decrypter's ifo mode and rip each one and confer as I go along, renaming the vobs in a chronological order. Finally I would put the vobs together with some kind of vob joiner so that i could encode with my program of choice. (I usually use dvdremake pro to join movies with split title sets together into one vts, but I wouldn't recommend that for anyone who isn't familiar with or does not own the program)

all of this sounds very tedious and it probably is, so I would ignore this advice unless I couldn't find another way or really had to get this done.

[mats.hogberg]

No, I see no other way than the long and hard...

/Mats

[ebenton]

You might try fixvts and see what happens.

[Jeremiah58]

It can be done with Womble MPEG Video Wizard.
You can open vobs, preview, and add one by one in proper order to a timeline.