Video Conversion program needed

[RBCC]

I have several vobs , would like to figure out what they were originally. And then convert them back to their original format. Is there a program that can tell me what they are originally and then do the conversion? John

[Kerry56]

Vob files are found in dvd-video. This may have been the original format for this particular video.

If they were converted into dvd-video from something else, you won't be able to find out what that original format was. And converting will lose a bit of the existing visual quality of your video.

Vob files by themselves aren't particularly useful...they will play on a computer using something like MPC-HC or VLC. You don't have the ifo and bup files that go with them?

What do you want to accomplish when working with these vob files? It is easy enough to re-author them to dvd-video, or merge them and convert to something else, like H264.

[redwudz]

No program I am aware of. You can open one in MediaInfo and it may tell you more about the VOBS themselves.
If you re-encode them once again, even to a possible original format, the quality will suffer.
If they are just VOBs with no VIDEO_TS folder or any IFOs or BUPS, you could rename the extension .mpg instead of .VOB.


Or maybe one method to convert the VOBs back to a DVD, if they are all from one source and you don't want to lose quality:
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/194163-SPLIT-A-LARGE-VOB-FILE-INTO-1GB-CHUNKS-AND-AUTHOR


Other members probably have suggestions, also.

[sanlyn]

VOB files from standard DVD are MPEG2. Change the filename from to .mpg or .mpeg. Or use an authoring program to build a new DVD compilation, assuming the vob's have similar and compatible characteristics. Do NOT re-encode MPEG2 just for the hell of it. Video encoding is lossy.

[RBCC]

I am actually trying to seperate the mpegs from the vobs and create my own disk. Can I do this? Can I make one big vob then seperate the video into mpegs then burn to disk. John

[manono]

I am actually trying to seperate the mpegs from the vobs and create my own disk. Can I do this? Can I make one big vob then seperate the video into mpegs then burn to disk. John

You can convert all the VOBs at once to a single MPG using VOB2MPG.

[RBCC]

Is there a program that can take an iso and can give me files when winrar says no archives found? John

[El Heggunte]

Is there a program that can take an iso and can give me files when winrar says no archives found?

Isobuster, Daemon Tools Lite, --- OR an up-to-date build of WinRAR, I presume