Can I create a DVD-R from 30 VOBs?

[johnells]

I have downloaded VOB's from the internet and now I would like to make a DVD-R of the collection. The total size of the VOB's is about 1 GB. I am basically familiar with IFOEDIT and how to recreate the IFO and BUP files. However, my VOB's are 30 seconds long and I would like to put about 30 of them onto a single DVD-R as different titles. Can I do it? How do I merge the VIDEO_TS.IFO files so I only have one?

For those that are interested some of the VOB's are PAL and some are NTSC, some are widescreen and some are 4:3. Some have DTS and some have Dolby AC-3. It should be a fun project!

John

[Octagon]

Actually the vobs must be the correct size and shape as DVDS. I have Vob music vids and they must be reencoded. You can merge all the vobs together using VOBEDIT. Go to doom9.org and Dl it. After merging all the Vobs together. Make new IFO with ifoedit and burn. Look for vobedit, the maker of Ifoedit made it. Go to his website.

[Niceone]

yes you can put all these files to dvd-r, unfortunately dvd authoring tools available to us only allow all widescreen 16:9 or all fullscreen 4:3 media files per dvd-r, the same applys to pal/ntsc, therefore you will havbe to decide what to go for and reencode the others (pretty simple with dvd2avi and cce) . However you cannot simply merge video_ts files, you need a complete authoring package, where the mpeg streams are dragged into, then making a simple menu is easy.

Id suggest somthing like dvdit PE or if your feeling brave Scenerist (its manual sucks)

goodluck!

[buckonine]

what i would suggest, and i'm hoping here that all the video streams are the same format (ie: PAL or NTSC) take each vob and make a different CVC2AVI project out of it. do not forget to to IVTC if needed. otherwise you'll get some God awful asynch problems. encode each with CCE then do your pulldown on your resulting *.MPV's. bring each of your video and audio files into scenarist, and make sure to name them so you know what is what. scenarist does a good job of dealing with different aspect ratios in the same project, at least it has for me. the only thing you might have to do is out the aspect ratios in their own VTS instead of all in one. then once you have everything set up in track editor move to scenario editor and create different PGC's for each video stream. you will need a menu or you will have to jump to the title with your remote manually. this will put them all together though. the scenarist manual is pretty complete but it assumes previous understanding of almost every part of dvd authoring. once you have done some work with this you will better understand the manual as well