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  1. Member
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    Hi y'all!

    Well, i've got a little problem here...
    I've downloaded a movie, and it came in a VIDEO_TS folder, with 4 VOB files in it. It has no IFO ou BUP files, so i can not burn them using Toast or some other application, as they tell me the VIDEO_TS folder is not valid.

    But, watching the files with VLC is very easy, and it even lets me choose the subtitle track i want to be displayed.

    Is there a way to convert these files into a single DVD (and keep the subtitles preferably) using ffmpegX? I tried dropping them one at a time into ffmpeX's window, but it tell me the kind of the file is 'unknown'. Can anybody help me?

    Thanks in advantage!

    Rennato
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    Well, one way to solve this is to load your VOB files into MPEG Streamclip and choose the 'save as...' option. That will give you a single file VOB. This you can then load into ffmpegX and author a DVD. However, you lose the subs. There is a solution for this, but it's a bit of work. You can extract the subs you want from your single file VOB using an application like D-Subtitler. It'll ask you to identify certain characters and you'll have to edit the file after it's done (like I said, it's a bit of work, but it works). This will give you an .srt file. Then, when authoring a DVD in ffmpegX you can load this .srt file in ffmpegX's Filters tab. If you do include subtitles, I would recommend you use the mpeg2enc engine since that gives you control over the subs' font, size and position.
    Anyway, that's how I would do it, but maybe somebody else has a better solution.
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