How do I use my DVDs as archive?

[EricB]

After reading guides and experimenting, I still don't know how to do what I think should be a simple process.

I want to take VOBs from several different DVDs (all family video) and author them into a new DVD without re-encoding. Most all the guides are aimed at some re-encoding to change size etc.

I have tried Ifoedit but can't figure out how to create the new IFO, BUP, etc files required.

I would be happy with just restoring the mpeg2 files from the VOBs and be able to author again with those.

Any help would be appreciated.

[EnemyWithin]

Use SmartRipper (Stream Processing) to demux the video and sound from the vobs. Then you can re-author a new DVD with the combined files.