How to convert multiple VOBs into avi with autogk?

[lascetic]

I am trying to convert a DVD into avi, by using dvdshrink and autogk. I load the ISO file to dvdshrink and for the Main Movie I get "Title 2" and three more "Title 2(continued)". I double click all four of them and load them to the DVD structure and back them up (with the "split vob files into 1gb size chunks" unticked). The result is a folder with the following files:






Now, I cannot load the video_ts.ifo to autogk because it says "vob files are not found". When I load the VTS_01_0.IFO, it only converts the first vob file. My question is, which file should I load to autogk in order to get a single (or two maximum) avi file(s)? I have used this method only once before this project, but there was only one main movie title and only one vob created by dvdshrink, which I loaded to autogk.

[manono]

Renumber the VOBs consecutively so that you have VTS_01_1.VOB, VTS_01_2.VOB, VTS_01_3.VOB, VTS_01_4.VOB, and then load the first VOB into AutoGK. The rest will follow.

However, because I don't use DVDShrink I don't quite understand what you did and if that was the original DVD structure. I've never in my life seen a single movie (if that's what it is) divided over 4 VTSs. Is that the way it looked in the hard drive before running it through DVDShrink (is that what was inside the ISO you made)? If so, why did you screw it up so much that you had to come here to ask for help? Next time just use DVD Decrypter in File Mode or DVDFab HD Decrypter to put the DVD on the hard drive (and not in ISO format) and then load the IFO or the first VOB into AutoGK. You don't need to use DVDShrink at all.

[yoda313]

I have used this method only once before this project, but there was only one main movie title and only one vob created by dvdshrink, which I loaded to autogk.

Thats because you had dvdshrink set to "do not split vob into 1gb chunks" or unchecked "split vob into 1gb chunks", can't remember the particular verbage.

Either way you can tell dvdshrink to give you one giant vob instead of split vob files. Is that were you looking to do in this case? If so its in the properties menu, preferences I think is what its called. Then deselect the split option.

But since I don't use autogk I can't help you there but I do use dvdshrink unlike manono. So follow manono's advice on autogk.

Edit - ignore this - I see you mentioned the split option in your first post - sorry didn't read closely enough -

[Tedbundy]

I use these programs and have been doing this same thing for a few days now.

I'm not sure why you made a ISO first. Could you explain?

Here's the steps I use.

Open DVDshrink>open disc> Click re-author>under compression settings, use the option that says no compression>Drag main movie(normally title 1) to the left under dvd structure>Then you just simply use the back up option and find where you want to save the movie.

After it's done, open autogk - click input file and that's where you open the VTS_01_1.VOB file. enter a destination. Use the settings you would like, add job, start, go watch tv for awhile and check on it later

[lascetic]

Sorry about the confusion. I only have the ISO file, not actual DVD. My mistake, I didn't mention. So that's what I loaded to dvdshrink hoping to get only one main movie title. As I said I had done that before with another movie and it worked. I don't know why this one came split.

Renumber the VOBs consecutively so that you have VTS_01_1.VOB, VTS_01_2.VOB, VTS_01_3.VOB, VTS_01_4.VOB, and then load the first VOB into AutoGK. The rest will follow.

So, I leave them as they are on the image on my first post and load the first vob?

Open DVDshrink>open disc> Click re-author>under compression settings, use the option that says no compression>Drag main movie(normally title 1) to the left under dvd structure>Then you just simply use the back up option and find where you want to save the movie.

So, no compression is better than auto?

Thanks all of you guys. You saved me from a lot of reading and waiting! It will probably take at least 2-3 (it's a long movie) to convert, so I may have to come back tomorrow. I'm also waiting for the confirmation of the above questions before I start.

[manono]

So, I leave them as they are on the image on my first post and load the first vob?

No, that's not what I said at all:

Renumber the VOBs consecutively so that you have VTS_01_1.VOB, VTS_01_2.VOB, VTS_01_3.VOB, VTS_01_4.VOB...

Maybe move just the VOBs to a separate folder. The VTS_01_1.VOB keeps the same name. The VTS_02_1.VOB gets renamed as VTS_01_2.VOB, the VTS_03_1.VOB as VTS_01_3.VOB, and the VTS_04_1.VOB as VTS_01_4.VOB. Probably just as it was in the ISO before you f***ed it up in DVDShrink.

Or mount the ISO and get the source files from that, again skipping DVDShrink.

[lascetic]

So, I leave them as they are on the image on my first post and load the first vob?

No, that's not what I said at all:

Renumber the VOBs consecutively so that you have VTS_01_1.VOB, VTS_01_2.VOB, VTS_01_3.VOB, VTS_01_4.VOB...

Maybe move just the VOBs to a separate folder. The VTS_01_1.VOB keeps the same name. The VTS_02_1.VOB gets renamed as VTS_01_2.VOB, the VTS_03_1.VOB as VTS_01_3.VOB, and the VTS_04_1.VOB as VTS_01_4.VOB. Probably just as it was in the ISO before you f***ed it up in DVDShrink.

Or mount the ISO and get the source files from that, again skipping DVDShrink.

Ok, I think I got it now. I unzipped the ISO and you are right. The numbering is different:


The VTS_01_1.VOB is the company's logo video and the VTS_02_1.VOB (until 5) is the movie. So, I just have to load VTS_02.1.VOB to autogk and I will get the whole movie in one avi file, right?

[manono]

Yep. Or the IFO if there are subtitles you want.

[Tedbundy]

So, no compression is better than auto?

Since you can't keep all of the menus in a AVI then there's no point in leaving DVDshrink to compress the video. autogk will compress it again and cause it to look like crap.

If you don't care about how big the file comes out then tick the box that reads "target quality in percentage" and leave it at 75%

[hello_hello]

So, no compression is better than auto?

You don't want DVDShrink to re-encode anything because you'll be re-encoding with AutoGK.
My method for using DVDShrink to re-author before encoding is to go into it's options and set the Target DVD size to something large. I think it's set to DVD5 by default. I usually select "custom" and then specify something ridiculously large such as 50000MB. That way there's no need to remember to change compression settings when re-authoring, because DVDShrink won't try to re-encode anything anyway..... as long as the total size stays under 50000MB.

The reason I set it so large is occasionally I'll use DVDShrink to re-author several episodic DVDs. Rather than open and re-author them individually I drag the titles from the first DVD to the left pane, use the DVD browser to open the second DVD and drag it's titles across etc..... then after using the backup function the single output folder contains all the episodes from each DVD. In order to re-author several discs that way the Target DVD size does need to be set to something large.

[Tedbundy]

So, no compression is better than auto?

You don't want DVDShrink to re-encode anything because you'll be re-encoding with AutoGK.
My method for using DVDShrink to re-author before encoding is to go into it's options and set the Target DVD size to something large. I think it's set to DVD5 by default. I usually select "custom" and then specify something ridiculously large such as 50000MB. That way there's no need to remember to change compression settings when re-authoring, because DVDShrink won't try to re-encode anything anyway..... as long as the total size stays under 50000MB.

The reason I set it so large is occasionally I'll use DVDShrink to re-author several episodic DVDs. Rather than open and re-author them individually I drag the titles from the first DVD to the left pane, use the DVD browser to open the second DVD and drag it's titles across etc..... then after using the backup function the single output folder contains all the episodes from each DVD. In order to re-author several discs that way the Target DVD size does need to be set to something large.

That's actually clever. I never thought about that - I sometimes forget to change compression settings and end up having to re-rip.

Anyways, I have a question that I'll pm you with before I decide to make a new thread about ripping episodic dvds @hello

[lascetic]

Brilliant, it worked. It took 7 hours coz the movie is 3 and a half. But at the end I got a single avi 1.36gb. I think the title of this thread should be How to convert ISO to a single avi file using Auto Gordian Knot.

1. Load the first VOB of the main movie to autogk
2. Choose output location and desired size
3. Add job (you can add multiple jobs if you want to convert more than one movies)
4. Click start
5. Wait for autogk to complete the conversion
6. Done

Thanks a lot guys for your help.

[hello_hello]

If the DVD is prepared for encoding correctly you should be able to open the ifo files with AutoGK. I'm not really sure what was happening in your case but a correctly "re-authored for encoding" DVD should look something like this if it's just a movie:

VTS_01_0.IFO
VTS_01_1.VOB
VTS_01_2.VOB
VTS_01_3.VOB
VTS_01_4.VOB

There'll be a few other files too but you can either open the VTS_01_0.IFO file or the first vob file in the sequence and AutoGK will encode the whole lot as a single movie. If you tell DVDShrink not to split vob files into 1GB chunks you'll have just one large vob file instead, but it doesn't matter either way.
If you drag multiple titles across in DVDShrink as you would if the DVD contained multiple episodes, the structure would be the same as above, only you'd have an IFO file and a set of vob files per episode.

When you tried re-authoring the ISO with DVDShrink and then re-encoding it with AutoGK, from your description it sounds like they were both doing exactly what they were supposed to do, so either there's something unusual about the DVD structure from the IFO file or you weren't using DVDShrink to re-author it correctly. In fact it would appear the contents of the ISO file were already re-authored correctly for encoding, so I'm not sure exactly why you had the problem you did. How were you "loading the titles into the DVD structure" when you originally opened the ISO file with DVDShrink?

[lascetic]

If you tell DVDShrink not to split vob files into 1GB chunks you'll have just one large vob file instead, but it doesn't matter either way.

Well, that was what initially confused me, cause when I loaded the ISO to dvdshrink the main movie was in four parts:



At that point I was not sure if dragging only the first "Title2" was enough, so I dragged all four and I suppose that is why I ended up with the weird structure. For some reason I believed that dvdshrink was needed to attach the vobs into one. Then with the help of the people on this thread, I realized I don't even need to use dvdshrink, cause autogk does this job by loading just the first vob file of the main movie.

However, for future reference, when there is an actual dvd that comes with more than one title under the main movie, what do I do to get a single vob with dvdshrink?

[hello_hello]

If your pic is of the right pane after using the re-author button then I'm not sure I've ever seen a DVD which looks like that before. Normally there's more than one title, but each episode or the movie will be just a single title for each. Given you were opening an ISO rather than a disc, I'd guess there was something unusual about the way the DVD structure was changed when that ISO was created.

Often you'll have a DVD which is made up of a large set of vob files and DVDShrink's re-author function will let you extract just a single title and then save that as a new set of vob files but it can't join multiple titles together. As I said though, if that's DVDShrink's right pane I'm not sure I've ever seen a DVD with a movie title which has been split like that.

[lascetic]

If your pic is of the right pane after using the re-author button then I'm not sure I've ever seen a DVD which looks like that before. Normally there's more than one title, but each episode or the movie will be just a single title for each. Given you were opening an ISO rather than a disc, I'd guess there was something unusual about the way the DVD structure was changed when that ISO was created.

Often you'll have a DVD which is made up of a large set of vob files and DVDShrink's re-author function will let you extract just a single title and then save that as a new set of vob files but it can't join multiple titles together. As I said though, if that's DVDShrink's right pane I'm not sure I've ever seen a DVD with a movie title which has been split like that.

Yes, it is the right pane after using the re-author button. As I mentioned on my first post, I have used dvdshrink only once before with another movie and the main movie was just one vob. That is why I got confused with this one and ended up here. I haven't created the ISO myself so I don't know if there is something with the structure or maybe just because it's a very long movie (almost 3 and a half hours). Never mind though, since autogk does the job. Thanks a lot.

[Tedbundy]

I've never seen anything like this either. Do you mind me asking what movie it was?

[lascetic]

I've never seen anything like this either. Do you mind me asking what movie it was?

http://www.amazon.de/DVD-SCHWEDISCH-Wallander-M%C3%B6rdare-Ansikte/dp/B006HI7KCA/ref=s...1293572&sr=1-1