VOBs to AVI ?

[pmoscatt]

I have a DVD that I created a number of years ago and now want to convert it to AVI but not the complete DVD.

I firstly used DVD Shrink and re-Authored it to select the scenes I wanted. When creating the ISO and then only taking the VOBs I need, I ended up with 4 VOBs.

The first is the introduction and holds no audio while the remaining VOBs contain the movie detail (no chapters).

I would have expected DVD2AVI would have done the conversion for me but ended with an AVI with no audio and an associated WAV with the audio. Then some how I would have to glue them back together to give me the AVI I want with audio.

What's the best method of achieving my goal of one AVI with audio ?

Regards
Fritzables.

[guns1inger]

AutoGK or avi.net will do it for you, or you can use virtualdubmod to add the audio and video back together. Open the avi in virtualdubmod, and go Streams -> Stream List. Click on Add and select your audio. Click OK, then go File -> Save As. Make sure you are using Direct Stream Copy, and you will have a new avi, with audio, in a minute or two.

[pmoscatt]

Hey gunslinger,

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, ultimately I would like to use AutoGK but from what I understand it can only convert one VOB at a time resulting in 4 AVIs which I don't want.

If I can glue the VOBs together to give me one (with audio) this would be awesome.

Fritzables.

[guns1inger]

VOBMerge will take your VOB files and give you one continuous VOB.

[pmoscatt]

Tried this last night - it works fine but produces a VOB with no audio - unless I have cocked up

[guns1inger]

You can also rip to a single VOB with DVD decrypter. Use IFO mode, and make sure you have File Splitting set to None in preferences.

[manono]

but from what I understand it can only convert one VOB at a time resulting in 4 AVIs which I don't want.

You understand wrong. If they're consecutively numbered, point to the first and the rest get loaded also:

If you want to encode multiple input files into one resulting AVI you can do it by appropriately naming input files: *_1.vob;*_2.vob etc and selecting just the first one (Extension can be any of supported types apart from AVI).

http://www.autogk.me.uk/modules.php?name=TutorialEN

Or you can load the IFO if there's only one PGC in that VTS. Or you can decrypt in IFO Mode using DVD Decrypter.