VOB2MPG Question

[daisyd681]

I tried looking through the thread for this tool and became very confused as there were several conversations going on at once. I downloaded this tool because it seems to be exactly what I need to try to finish this month long project. After futzing with my pc, a capture device, and my old Sony hi8 I gave up and borrowed a tempermental DVDR (Panasonic E-50) I could probably have gotten better video if I played around with the capture card some more, but I probably would have also ended up divorced, so this works. I now have about 9 DVD-R (that play in both the dvd player and the pc) discs from 7 hi8 tapes that are pretty good. From here I would like to save these as backups somewhere else and create discs with chapters and a menu. Nothing fancy, maybe edit a couple of places where one disc filled in the middle of a scene and I rewound to start the next disc.
Now I have these .vob files that no program wants to work with. I want to convert them as little as possible as the video is as low a quality as I am willing to accept given I spent $500 on the camera only a few years ago.
I know that was a long lead in to my question, but I thought some background might help.
I directed VOB2MPG to the top folder in the disc drive and output to the desktop so I could see it. One click of a button and it was off and running (such a relief after all of this). My problem is that it seemed to drop 40 mins in the conversion. The disc is 1:55 and the mpg file is 1:09. I am assuming that it did not convert all of the vobs, but you know what they say about assume. Any ideas would help. TIA

[daisyd681]

Here is the log. How do I alot enough memory for it to work? I have ~60g on my HD

DeviceID: D:
FileSystem: NTFS
Size: 8.38 GB
FreeSpace: 1.15 GB

************************************************** ******************
********************* END OF SYSTEM INFORMATION ********************
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********************** Input Folder *******************
18:23:40: Volume in drive E is DVD_VIDEO_RECORDER
18:23:40: Volume Serial Number is 2405-EE17
18:23:40: Directory of E:\VIDEO_TS
18:23:40: 05/22/2008 12:31 PM <DIR> .
18:23:40: 05/22/2008 12:31 PM <DIR> ..
18:23:40: 05/22/2008 12:31 PM 12,288 VIDEO_TS.IFO
18:23:40: 05/22/2008 12:31 PM 12,288 VIDEO_TS.BUP
18:23:40: 05/22/2008 12:31 PM 36,864 VIDEO_TS.VOB
18:23:40: 05/22/2008 12:31 PM 83,968 VTS_01_0.IFO
18:23:40: 05/22/2008 12:31 PM 83,968 VTS_01_0.BUP
18:23:40: 05/22/2008 12:31 PM 1,073,170,432 VTS_01_1.VOB
18:23:40: 05/22/2008 12:31 PM 1,073,170,432 VTS_01_2.VOB
18:23:40: 05/22/2008 12:31 PM 1,073,170,432 VTS_01_3.VOB
18:23:40: 05/22/2008 12:31 PM 922,992,640 VTS_01_4.VOB
18:23:40: 9 File(s) 4,142,733,908 bytes
18:23:40: 2 Dir(s) 0 bytes free
18:23:40: Not enough storage is available to process this command.
18:23:40: E:\VIDEO_TS>
************************************************** ******************
************************ SYSTEM INFORMATION ************************
************************************************** ******************

***************************** VOB2MPG *****************************

Name: VOB2MPG
Title:
Version: 2.5.0.0
Executable: C:\Program Files\BadgerIT\VOB2MPG\VOB2MPG.exe
Executable size: 460 KB
Executable size in bytes: 471040
Executable CreationTime: 1/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
Executable LastWriteTime: 1/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
Executable LastAccessTime: 1/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
****************************** Drives *******************************

DeviceID: C:
FileSystem: NTFS
Size: 103 GB
FreeSpace: 63.2 GB

DeviceID: D:
FileSystem: NTFS
Size: 8.38 GB
FreeSpace: 1.15 GB

************************************************** ******************
********************* END OF SYSTEM INFORMATION ********************
************************************************** ******************


********************** Input Folder *******************
18:23:43: Volume in drive E is DVD_VIDEO_RECORDER
18:23:43: Volume Serial Number is 2405-EE17
18:23:43: Directory of E:\VIDEO_TS
18:23:43: 05/22/2008 12:31 PM <DIR> .
18:23:43: 05/22/2008 12:31 PM <DIR> ..
18:23:43: 05/22/2008 12:31 PM 12,288 VIDEO_TS.IFO
18:23:43: 05/22/2008 12:31 PM 12,288 VIDEO_TS.BUP
18:23:43: 05/22/2008 12:31 PM 36,864 VIDEO_TS.VOB
18:23:43: 05/22/2008 12:31 PM 83,968 VTS_01_0.IFO
18:23:43: 05/22/2008 12:31 PM 83,968 VTS_01_0.BUP
18:23:43: 05/22/2008 12:31 PM 1,073,170,432 VTS_01_1.VOB
18:23:43: 05/22/2008 12:31 PM 1,073,170,432 VTS_01_2.VOB
18:23:43: 05/22/2008 12:31 PM 1,073,170,432 VTS_01_3.VOB
18:23:43: 05/22/2008 12:31 PM 922,992,640 VTS_01_4.VOB
18:23:43: 9 File(s) 4,142,733,908 bytes
18:23:43: 2 Dir(s) 0 bytes free
18:23:43: Not enough storage is available to process this command.
18:23:43: E:\VIDEO_TS>

********************** AV Details *******************
file=E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB
FormatName=mpeg
Num_Frames=360
DurationInSecs=12
Duration=00:00:12.0
VideoCodec=mpeg2video
VideoFFSTNum=0
Width=704
Height=480
Standard=NTSC
BitRate=712811
AudioStreamCount=1
Audio1FFSTNum=1
Audio1StreamID=[0x80]
Audio1SampleRate=48000
Audio1Codec=ac3
Audio1BitRate=256
Audio1Channels=2
************************ END ************************
18:23:53: FFmpeg version HEAD, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
18:23:53: configuration: --enable-a52 --enable-gpl --enable-memalign-hack --disable-debug --enable-pthreads
18:23:53: libavutil version: 49.0.0
18:23:53: libavcodec version: 51.9.0
18:23:53: libavformat version: 50.4.0
18:23:53: built on Jun 20 2006 11:22:30, gcc: 3.4.4 (mingw special)
18:23:53: Input #0, mpeg, from 'multi:E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB*E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01 _2.VOB*E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_3.VOB*E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01 _4.VOB*':
18:23:53: Duration: 00:00:18.7, start: 0.224800, bitrate: 1765450 kb/s
18:23:53: Stream #0.0[0x1e0], 29.97 fps(r): Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 704x480, 9586 kb/s
18:23:53: Stream #0.1[0x80]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 256 kb/s
18:23:53: Assuming NTSC for target.
18:23:53: Output #0, dvd, to 'C:\Users\DaisyD\Desktop\VTS_01.mpg':
18:23:53: Stream #0.0, 29.97 fps(c): Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 704x480, q=2-31, 9586 kb/s
18:23:53: Stream #0.1: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 256 kb/s
18:23:53: Stream mapping:
18:23:53: Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
18:23:53: Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
18:35:06: [dvd @ 0069DF54]buffer underflow
18:35:06: [dvd @ 0069DF54]buffer underflow
18:35:06: [dvd @ 0069DF54]buffer underflow
18:35:06: [dvd @ 0069DF54]buffer underflow
18:35:06: [dvd @ 0069DF54]buffer underflow
18:35:06: [dvd @ 0069DF54]buffer underflow
18:35:06: [dvd @ 0069DF54]buffer underflow
18:35:06: [dvd @ 0069DF54]buffer underflow
18:35:06: [dvd @ 0069DF54]buffer underflow
18:47:51: frame=125035 q=0.0 Lsize= 2417534kB time=4169.5 bitrate=4749.9kbits/s
18:47:51: video:2233046kB audio:130361kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 2.290203%

********************** Output Folder *******************
18:47:53: Volume in drive C has no label.
18:47:53: Directory of C:\Users\DaisyD\Desktop
18:47:53: 05/29/2008 06:23 PM <DIR> .
18:47:53: 05/29/2008 06:23 PM <DIR> ..
18:47:53: 05/29/2008 04:52 PM 459,827,200 Baby Eric.mpg
18:47:53: 05/29/2008 12:58 PM 2,475,554,816 Connor's Birth.mpg
18:47:53: 12/29/2007 04:38 PM 763 Digimax Master.lnk
18:47:53: 12/29/2007 05:30 PM 2,022 HP Photosmart Essential 2.5.lnk
18:47:53: 05/12/2008 12:43 PM <DIR> Moto Q
18:47:53: 12/28/2007 08:30 PM <DIR> Movies 2005
18:47:53: 12/28/2007 07:57 PM <DIR> Movies 2006
18:47:53: 05/09/2008 06:15 PM <DIR> Movies 2007
18:47:53: 05/18/2008 10:41 AM <DIR> Movies 2008
18:47:53: 01/04/2008 11:16 AM 696 Nvu.lnk
18:47:53: 05/28/2008 06:10 PM 147,968 Silent Videos.MSWMM
18:47:53: 05/19/2008 08:21 AM 704 VirtualDub.lnk
18:47:53: 05/29/2008 06:47 PM 2,475,554,816 VTS_01.mpg
18:47:53: 8 File(s) 5,411,088,985 bytes
18:47:53: 7 Dir(s) 65,409,646,592 bytes free
18:47:53: Not enough storage is available to process this command.
18:47:53: C:\Users\DaisyD\Desktop>

[daisyd681]

I did find mention of a program called FixVTS. So far, I have not been able to get it to work. Is it because the files are on a DVD-R, or are they that bad? I tried the next disc in the batch and it came out to the same file size as the disc, so it must have something to do with the DVDR not liking the first disc I used, before I switched to better media. I'd rather not re-record it but I will if I have to. Do I need to copy the files off the DVD for FixVTS to work? If so how, Windows wants 10 hrs to do it with right click >copy.

[Jikchung]

Not sure what your problem may be with VOB2MPG, maybe ChrissyBoy has an idea.

That being said, try VideoRedo, it works great for combining and editing VOB's and I use it when I have problems with other tools. It isn't freeware but it did have a free trial period.