using AVStoDVD to make a dvd from a single VOB without transcoding

[nerys]

Ok I used to do this I learned how to do it here but 30 minutes of searching and I can not find it.

I have a 2.04gb vob file (awards ceremony from a rocketry event that I converted from the 720p mp4 to a dvd compliant VOB already.

I just want to make it a playable dvd (bup ifo etc..)

I remember using avstodvd to do this but its trying to transcode (its saying output size 4452 instead of the proper 2.04gb that the vob actually is IE its wanting to blow up the file.

how do I stop it doing that? this process should take a couple of minutes (chunk and structure) but at 4452 its going to try and transcode (ie long time and kill the quality)

no menu's no nothing. just chunk structure burn and play.

any help would be greatly appreciated!

or is there a better program to use? I want DEAD SIMPLE as possible. drop the vob have it chunk it to 1gb chunks and build the structure (bup ifo) without processing or transcoding anything so I can just burn the dvd

in avstodvd I have keep compliant video and keep compliant audio (what I thought I needed to have selected)

but it still wants to double the size of the video. Grrrr

[davexnet]

Use vob2mpg to create a mpg file from the VOB.
Feed the mpg to AVStoDVD

[nerys]

no change. it still wants to "double" the file size to fill a dvd.

[manono]

Use IFOEdit unless you want to demux and use the better Muxman. Open IFOEdit and in the bottom center hit 'Create IFOs'.

[nerys]

Could not find any vob units in the vob files ??

ok maybe my vob file is "not right" ?? its 3mb 720x576 16:9 with mp2 224kb audio.

[manono]

ok maybe my vob file is "not right" ?? its 3mb 720x576 16:9 with mp2 224kb audio.

I have a 2.04gb vob file (awards ceremony from a rocketry event that I converted from the 720p mp4 to a dvd compliant VOB already.

Make up your mind. Which is it? Maybe you just have a renamed MPG, who knows? Anyway, then demux and author, if the audio and video separately are DVD compliant.

One way is to use DGIndex. Open the VOB and then File->Save File And Demux Video. Give the audio and video to Muxman and delete the D2V file.

[nerys]

Not sure what you mean by make up my mind. make up my mind about "what" ? which "what" ?

I started with an mp4 I ran it through super and told it to make a dvd compliant vob

I am now trying to get that vob into a "usable" dvd.

I don't want to demux. I would rather re encode if need be since I have many more mp4's to process now and in the future.

I remember a program I just fed it the vob and it chunked and structured it. I just want to do that.

[manono]

Not sure what you mean by make up my mind. make up my mind about "what" ? which "what" ?

Do you really not understand? Don't the two quotations of yours make it clear? In your first post you said you had a 2GB VOB which needed IFOs. In the second quotation you suddenly write of a different VOB only 3MB in size.

Look, don't use Super for anything. It's as simple as that. Any good DVD making program will give you a fully authored DVD, not a useless VOB. Try AVSToDVD, which you should have been using on your MP4s to begin with.

And if you really got a 3MB VOB from a similarly small MP4, then how long can it take to start over with AVSToDVD to do it right?

I remember a program I just fed it the vob and it chunked and structured it. I just want to do that.

I suggested IFOEdit to you but it apparently is either too difficult for you to use, or there really is something fundamentally wrong with the VOB Super (and/or you) made. And just how much 'chunking' do you expect to be done with a 3MB VOB? Have you tried your '2.04gb vob file (awards ceremony from a rocketry event' yet?

[nerys]

I like super because it batches and it does a really clean job of it. no big deal. My settings must have been goofed OR one of the programs I tried to use must have borked the vob. I deleted it and remade it and bingo. working perfectly in avstodvd now.

that was not 3mb as in size but 3mb as in bitrate (2976) - sorry I forgot the /s ie 3mb/s since we already knew the file size of 2gb I just assumed it was understood I was talking bitrate/resolution stats with that information

the files come from my Sanyo HD1. it makes "odd" video files it seems as most authoring programs puke on the file.

I tried ifoedit I gave you its error. not sure why you feel the need to insult me ?? get up on the wrong side of the bed? or just like me can't get TO bed ?

either way either I picked a bad setting or a program messed with the file or it was just corrupt the new vob is being taken by avs just fine now no "enlargement" so it appears to be accepting the formatting without re encoding it now.