Extracting video segments from ISO

[vikasa]

Windows 10

I have a dozen or so ISO images (created from DVD of home videos using ImgBurn). I would like to create multiple M4V files from each image by actually viewing the ISO and deciding where to start & stop each file. Right now I am using VLC to view the ISO in one window, forward and rewind as necessary, note the time in the VLC slider, copy it into the Start/End time in Handbrake, click Add To Queue, and so on. Very error-prone, time consuming.

Is there a tool out there that combines both these functions i.e. WYSIWYG encoding so I can drag a slider while viewing the ISO and chop the ISO into multiple M4V files? e.g. 00:00:00 to 00:02:34 seconds goes to File1.m4v, 00:02:35 to 00:05:33 goes to File2.m4v and so on.

Help? Thanks

[videobruger]

First use VOB2MPG to create a MPG file

Then Video To Video. Tools -> Split Video. Mark clip. Add segment. Repeat for all. OK. Choose "Direct Stream Copy". Choose container at right side (m4v). Ok. Convert.

EDIT VOB2MPG requires .Net Framework 2.0/3.0/3.5. In Windows 10 (Your computor spec says Windows server 2003) you may need to installl this. Else use MakeMKV to make a MKV file.

[vikasa]

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for! Coming to think of it, my DVD ISO images were created by combining AVI and/or MJPEG files from the mini DV camcorder tapes so there was already some encoding/loss in that conversion, I don't want any more loss of quality/resolution by using Handbrake to encode them to another format. What I really need is the "Direct Stream Copy" as you suggested to just extract them from their VOB container into another container like MKV. And it is much much faster to boot! Please correct me if I am wrong.

Video To Video is a nice tool but the "Tools/Split Video" feature's video player could use a few more keyboard shortcut functions like skip forward/backward by, say 10, seconds so I can locate my start and end points easily. It does have a button to advance (but not go back) a single frame but that's too granular, using seconds would have been a better choice IMHO

You are right, Windows 10 didn't have .NET framework and it was a pain to install so I ended up using MakeMKV to get a single MKV file (all my DVDs have just 1 title) from my ISO file. This was super fast so I am guessing it also used the "direct stream" option instead of re-encoding them.

Thanks again, this was extremely helpful.

[hello_hello]

Just so you know, an ISO file is pretty much a zip file for disc images. A little more to it, but pretty much a zip file for discs. Most compression programs can open and "unzip" them. 7zip, WinRAR, UltimateZip, etc etc. All could extract the DVD files (vob files) from within.

[vikasa]

Yup, I was aware of that, thanks.