How-to join VOBs

[the_macman]

What would be the easiest way to join 2 or more VOBs into one prior to encoding?

Thanks in advance!

[MaDmiZe]

At first I thought well someone wants one large vob....but then you said prior to encoding ......so why do you need to join??
I take DVD2AVI and run vob's through it...it spits out two files...a wav file that is the entire soundtrack of movie and a d2v file that index the wavs sync to proper vob. In my encoder (i use TMPG) i put the d2v file as video source and the wav as audio source and encode from there....
I don't know if it makes a difference but I keep all files wav, d2v, vob, and info files in same directory.

[the_macman]

What I'm trying to do is the following:

I have a music DVD that I want to encode to VCD, but with menus, etc. and not as one single track.

I rip the individual chapters with SmartRipper, but single chapters do not represent a single clip (e.g. I have 2 VOBs that I need to join in order to get the full clip)

That's why I need to be able to join VOBs which afterwards I process through FlaskMPEG w/CCE 2.62

Makes sense?

[pacoreguenga]

Yes, it makes sense (for your special need, it does).

use DVD2AVI to join all your vobs into a single .d2v project and save it with the "demux all tracks" selected. Add every vob to your project before saving it.
Now you can load your .d2v on TMPGenc or FlaskMpeg.
As an added bonus, if you "decode all tracks" instead of demuxing them, you will have a .wav file suitable to be edited on your audio application of choice. Maybe soundforge, maybe N-track, maybe cooledit, or whatever you like. There you can split it to separate audio tracks or chapters.

[the_macman]

Thanks! Good suggestion, but I'm trying to avoid multiple steps and having to have free HD space 2x the size of the DVD.

What I'm doing at the moment is encode the multiple VOBs, then merge with TMPGenc. I was just hoping that somebody had a more elegant solution...

Tnx again!