Super Guide

[Abond]

With dvdauthor as authoring engine you may use ready muxed material also, if it is compatible with dvdauthor (contains navigation packs and continuous time code!). That applies e.g. also to VOB files, if these contain only one film (title), thus if a constant timecode is present. If the (single!) film is distributed on several VOB files, these can simply be "copied together" into a large one from the command line (and thereby renamed in mpg). Example:

copy /b VTS_01_1.VOB + VTS_01_2.VOB + VTS_01_3.VOB NewFilm.mpg

The rename to mpg is always necessary, since in GFD only files with the extensions mpv, m2v, m1v and mpg are shown in the source window.

Thi is from the GFD guide:
http://download.videohelp.com/gfd/Help/RawMaterial.html

[Abond]

With dvdauthor as authoring engine you may use ready muxed material also, if it is compatible with dvdauthor (contains navigation packs and continuous time code!). That applies e.g. also to VOB files, if these contain only one film (title), thus if a constant timecode is present. If the (single!) film is distributed on several VOB files, these can simply be "copied together" into a large one from the command line (and thereby renamed in mpg). Example:

copy /b VTS_01_1.VOB + VTS_01_2.VOB + VTS_01_3.VOB NewFilm.mpg

The rename to mpg is always necessary, since in GFD only files with the extensions mpv, m2v, m1v and mpg are shown in the source window.

This is from the GFD guide:
http://download.videohelp.com/gfd/Help/RawMaterial.html

[theewizard]

he didn't start out with vobs

his files would NOT work that way

and neither have my mpeg files

(contains navigation packs and continuous time code!).

when was the last time you took an AVI and a mpeg file and had these conditions met? be real !!

just because the manual states something will work under a given set of condtions, doesn't mean the 'real' world normal conditions are the same

[Abond]

and neither have my mpeg files

(contains navigation packs and continuous time code!).

Interesting though. Are you sure they don't contain it? I am asking because every of my multiplexed mpeg files I load in GFD contains navigation packs.