Remember extractor?

[Man Dat Ting]

I used a small application called "extractor" the fastest vob joiner I ever found. HOwever I cannogt locate it anymore. I googled but no luck

Does anyone know where can I find it, or suggest another vob joiner?

MediaStreamClip 1.8 crashes on my Intel Mac, and 193 hungs

I am not sure which Unix component they use for this task: certainly mplayer binaries does not work properly with Intel Macs

Any hints?

[tomlee59]

D-Vision3, aside from being an excellent DVD-to-DivX/XviD converter, also has a collection of useful utilities, among which is a VOB joiner. And it's free. Give it a shot.

[ArtemisG3]

When all else fails, you could concatenate them in the Terminal

cd ~/Desktop/MOVIE/VIDEO_TS/
cat VTS_01_[1-5].VOB > joined.vob

The first line is changing to the proper directory, and the second line is joining VTS_01_1.VOB through VTS_01_5.VOB.
You will, of course need to change directory names and VOB names to make it work for you. Also, this may not work properly if there are special scenes/angles in the video.

[havema-1]

Does joining the VOBs via the cat -command introduce timecode breaks?

MPEG Streamclip is the only (decently priced ) app that I have got to properly join MPEG1/2 files. All other apps introduce timecode breaks.

VLC doesn't normally care about the timecode breaks but QT Player (and MPEG Streamclip) want them to be fixed; otherwise they don't play the whole clip. ...and many MPEGs do have those breaks, and I wonder where they were introduced