VOBmerge how much space is required

[carlos28355]

i tried to use vob merge for an issue im having im running out of things to do but thats another post but i have 500gbs free space and i wanted to merge about 6gbs worth of VOB files but it told me i didnt have enough free space to do this??? how much space is required for something like that?

[guns1inger]

VOBMerge has an issue with saving to a different drive from where the original files were. I don't have it on this machine, so I can't test it, but I recall something about having to have the source and target on the same drive or you get this space problem. It is a coding bug.

[freebird73717]

found this just from looking at the comments on the vob merge tool page here on videohelp

The "insufficient disc space" alert is a quirk with the program that is remedied by making the destination folder the same as the source folder. It was baffling to me also.

As long as everything is done within the same folder, this turns out to be a wonderful little tool. I use it to merge multiple VOBs into a single file as an intermediate step in DVD-to-Divx conversions.

If using the command promt doesn't scare you then you can accomplish the same thing like so

copy /b "e:\path to dvd folder\VTS_01_1.VOB" + "e:\path to dvd folder\VTS_01_2.VOB" "e:\output folder\JOINED.VOB"

[carlos28355]

thanks for responses! ill move my files onto other hdd (=