Combining Vobs, Slight Distortion

[Tom Saurus]

I think this is right forumn for this topic. I have my DVD's I have made over the last few years, and I wanted to extract a movie from the disc and make a mpeg2 file out of it. Now I used Womble to select the vts.vob files and the spot where each meets when I put them on the timeline to combine them, there is a slight distortion for a frame or two where the one vob ends and the next begins. I tried the vobmerge program and it just doesn't work for me. I know that Womble doesn't reencode and I have become quite proficient at using it.

Is this common for there to be a slight distortion where the two vobs meet? This even happened with a DVD I bought and decided to backup to try to perserve the original as much as possible. I appologize if this is not the right forumn. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide in regards to this issue.

The distortion seems to be that that someone took a pair of sissers and cut the picture in half and the top half is a little more to the right then the bottom half. It is only for a frame or two, but it is noticable. Is this what 32kb padding within ImagBurn is meant to protect against.

Could someone explain to me as well, how to use DVD Decrypter to make on vob file that I can just trim on the beginning or end in womble to extract the movie? Can ImagBurn do this as well, with its new Read Mode? Once again, thank you in advance for any help you can be concerning this issue. This is kind of important to me, because I really like the new Divx Author program and I try to take my older movies that are on DVD and place movies with matching themes together on one disc.

[Tom Saurus]

I think I have figured it out. I think I read something about the IFO mode once. Well anyway I went into the settings and set file splitting to none in the IFO mode and DVD Decrypter gave me one single .vob and the spots in the movie where the distortion was before, is gone. I believe it is just a matter of taking this vob and running it through Womble and making it a mpg2 file. I wouldn't be surprised if Divx Author could take this existing vob and accept it and convert it to Divx, directly.

If someone can explain this process better, it might help me and perhaps some others. Thanks in advance if you can explain this process in a more concise and detailed manner than I did.