Cutting .vob file in .vob format only

[rahul.never2far]

I recently got myself a DVD of 9 music videos of Eminem...... And I wanna share one of the music videos with my friend on net.... the problem is he wants that in .vob format but the all music videos r in single play.... I mean all the videos play continuesly.... so I need to cut that video out of the DVD in .vob format only.... can anybody help???


PS: I've tried searching within the forum but was unable to find any solution...

[manono]

Hi-

The chances are good that each music video is its own chapter. Most are like that. If so, stick the DVD in your DVD-ROM, open DVDDecrypter, set it for IFO Mode (at the top, Mode->IFO), and select the chapter you want.

There are many VOB cutters. If the DVD is on the hard drive, or in the DVD-ROM if there's no copy protection in it, I like to use MPEG2Cut. Open a VOB and use the [ and ] buttons to isolate the part you want. Then File->Save Selection. But I could name half a dozen tools that can do the same thing.

[redwudz]

In a DVD, the music videos may be on more than one VOB. A VOB is a split of a whole MPEG file at one gigabyte intervals. Unless each video is on a separate VOB, you would have a problem. You could extract the whole DVD to one large MPEG with VOB2MPG. Then use a MPEG editor to cut out the wanted video section. Then re-author the MPEG to a new DVD with VOBs. Not a lot of freeware MPEG editors. Maybe Cuttermaran.

See 'WHAT IS' DVD for the DVD format and specification to the upper left on this page. BTW, why does he need a VOB format? Many DVD players will play MPEGs. But if not, you will need to re-author it back to a DVD. You could use the freeware GUI for dvdauthor to author back to DVD format.

EDIT: manono has the easier method using DVDDecrypter.

[rahul.never2far]

I used MPEG2Cut and everything was fine except some horizontals lines were coming in the some scenes in the encoded video.... I've used TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress before and faced the same problem....

[manono]

I used MPEG2Cut and everything was fine except some horizontals lines were coming in the some scenes in the encoded video.... I've used TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress before and faced the same problem....

What problem? That's the way it is in the VOB. It's called interlacing and it was encoded like that. That's the way your friend wants it, so what's to worry?

If I had to guess, I'd say he wants the VOB untouched by you so you can't screw it up.

[rahul.never2far]

What problem? That's the way it is in the VOB. It's called interlacing and it was encoded like that. That's the way your friend wants it, so what's to worry?

I mean those lines r visible at some parts when I play the encoded video the video I encoded..... but video plays fine when I play the original .vob file...

If I had to guess, I'd say he wants the VOB untouched by you so you can't screw it up.

Thats what i was asking before... the original .vob is 2.10 GB (0.99 GB + 0.99 GB +108 MB) and he just wants I video out of it instead of the whole DVD...

[manono]

I mean those lines r visible at some parts when I play the encoded video the video I encoded..... but video plays fine when I play the original .vob file...

Oh, so the interlacing only showed up after you reencoded it, but not when cut straight from the source VOB? That's not how I read what you wrote before.

Well, I don't know how you encoded it to create the interlacing. I'd have to see a sample (10 seconds of a section with movement) of both the source video and the reencoded video. Even then I wouldn't be much help, except for telling you where you went wrong. But I don't use TMPGEnc, so I can't tell you the settings to change. But others around here can, I'm sure.

[mats.hogberg]

Thing is, many (all?) players deinterlace .VOBs at playback, but don't deinterlace .MPGs That's why so many see interlace artefacts after demuxing the mpg out of a VOB, and think something's been reencoded or damaged, while in fact they're looking at the same thing, just played back differently.

/Mats

[rahul.never2far]

Thanks for info guys....


I've told my friend that its not possible to cut .vob files and save them in .vob only..... then he agreed the have the file in .mpeg format..... size doesn't matter but quality should be same as .vob file.... so any file splitter u guys know???

[manono]

I've told my friend that its not possible to cut .vob files and save them in .vob only.....

And why did you lie to the guy? What you said is nonsense.

However, if it makes you feel any better, get VOB2MPEG. It'll show exactly the same thing as does the VOB you cut.

[olyteddy]

Re-Author mode of DVD Shrink sounds like what you want to use. Load the ripped disk, select the section you want to keep, save it and you're done.

[rahul.never2far]

Re-Author mode of DVD Shrink sounds like what you want to use. Load the ripped disk, select the section you want to keep, save it and you're done.

Thanks a lot!!!! That really helped!!! I really appreciate ur help and thanks everyone for giving me ur time