Joining two VOB sections from a DVD.

[jnetty99]

I have a DVD that only has one episode but for some reason it is split into two chapters. When you play back the DVD you don’t notice this. But when I ripped the DVD with DVDFab I notice there are two main chapters.

I want to rip the episode and then use handbrake to convert it but I can’t figure out how to unite both chapters so I can get one single converted file in the end.

I tried the customize and merger features in DVDfab but the resulting rip always has to separate chapters.

Any help is appreciated.

[lowellriggsiam]

If it's been ripped to iso you might try using fairusewizard.

[aedipuss]

you could use vob2mpg to join the vobs into one mpeg-2 then import that into handbrake.

[jnetty99]

Thanks for the suggestions.

Do you know if this would preserve the subtitles also?

[aedipuss]

don't know, never tried.

[lowellriggsiam]

in fairusewizard you just need to specify that you want to include the subtitles.

[jnetty99]

Would it be easier to combined the .mkv files created by handbrake?

i'm going to play with both applications recommend.

[lowellriggsiam]

If you have two mkv files why not try mkvmerge

[jnetty99]

I tried both Fairusewizard and vob2mpg and I didn't get the results I wanted. Vob2mpg creates two separate files. I want to take one vob and combine it with another vob to end up with one single file that handbrake can see as one.

But I think I will try the alternative suggestion to just merge the MKV files.

[aedipuss]

vob2mpg should create one mpeg if the vobs are in the same vts. if not put the vobs in a folder by themselves and rename them vts_01_1.vob and vts_01_2.vob then run it.

[bat999]

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