Any freeware to index an mpeg2?

[mel2000]

I copied an unencrypted vob from my DVD and renamed it with an mpg extension. I had trouble seeking with that file in both Windows Media Player and Media Player Classic. I opened and saved the mpeg2 as a copy in Avidemux, which automatically indexed the file. All went well until I found that Avidemux chopped off the last 27 minutes of audio. Is there a freeware program that could do a more competent job of indexing?

[guns1inger]

How about you do the job correctly from the start, and not just rename a VOB. Use VOB2MPG to extract the Mpeg correctly from the VOB container and place it in the Mpeg container. Renaming VOBs, while recommended by a minority, is not considered good practice, and often leads to this type of issue.

[mel2000]

Thanks for your reply. I have used VOB2MPG before without problems but this time when I got the "successful" popup (at about 24 minutes for a 4.6 GB vob file) VOB2MPG was performing a timestamp discontinuities fix, and was at 41% when it stopped processing. However, it kept displaying the movie in the preview window. When I terminated VOB2MPG in the Task Manager and played the mpg in WMP, it was clear that the indexing had not been fixed.

[usually_quiet]

Try demultiplexing the VOB with Rejig in file mode or with MPEG Streamclip, and remultplexing the resulting files as an .mpg with ImagoMPEG-Muxer.

[Edit] Also, VOB2MPG was just updated to fix an issue with SCR continuity. If you haven't already done so, get the latest version.