Programs??

[downer]

Are there any authoring programs that open up VOB files directly so you don't have to reencode the file to an m2v and such first?

Thanks.

[BJ_M]

a vob file IS a mpeg file already -- you don't have to re-encode it but you may have to de-multiplex it ..

[downer]

Thats what I was wondering if there were any authoring programs that let you open up the vob files without having to de-multiplex.

I am using SpruceUP and that won't let you open the VOB files.

I tried to de-multiplex in Tmpgenc, and the audio got all out of sync. So if I could just add the VOB file (s) to the authoring program directly it would be a lot less painful.

[joepic]

Thats what I was wondering if there were any authoring programs that let you open up the vob files without having to de-multiplex.

I am using SpruceUP and that won't let you open the VOB files.

I tried to de-multiplex in Tmpgenc, and the audio got all out of sync. So if I could just add the VOB file (s) to the authoring program directly it would be a lot less painful.

Not sure what you are trying to accomplish here?

To play a .VOB file use PowerDVD. You will need to associate the .VOB extension with PowerDVD.

IfoEdit will allow you to create the .IFO files from .VOB files. If you put these files into a VIDEO_TS directory you can make a DVD.

[downer]

I am trying to add a menu, and change/add chapters to an existing DVD that I have. I already ripped it, and I don't want to have to reencode the file if at possible.

I was hoping there was an easy way to do this but I have been looking and can't find anything on how to do this. Maybe I am looking in the wrong spots, but I swear i have checked out all the guides/forums from VCDhelp and Doom9.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.

[donpedro]

If you wan't to add menu and play with chapters, you will need to demux or somehow extract MPEG file (and sound) from VOB. Then you can re-author it.

[downer]

Ok, that is what I was wondering. I just didn't know if there were any programs that would let you do that with the VOB files.

What about this:
I rip the DVD and get the VOB files use IFOedit and make IFO files, etc. Then I reencode the file to make it a .m2v file and sound file.
I then use an author program like SpruceUp and make menu and chapters the way i want them. Instead of burning it, I just make the title set (files in the VIDEO_TS folder). Now this would be the reencoded file.

Is there anyway to add just the chapters and menu from this newly created re-encoded file, to the old VOB and IFO files that was just a rip from the DVD?? Kind of like a copy and paste sorta deal, or maybe IFOedit will let you copy from one IFO file to another, etc..

This probably sounds confusing but if anyone has any other suggestions it would be much appreciated. Also what programs to people use to demux other than TMPGenc?? any really reliable ones that won't put the audio and video out of sync??

Thanks again..

[BJ_M]

how you do this (it is not hard) depends on which authoring app you have .. if you dont have one , you will need one OR use ifoedit i believe (im no expert in ifoedit) if you still have the vobs ..

if you dont have a authoring app yet -- check out the list in authoring guides on the left which will also walk you through adding chapters ..

make sure you use an author app that doesnt re-encode your material ..

[downer]

Well the thing is, I am using SpruceUP. I have made a menu and can add chapters. The thing is importing the file to SpruceUp. It won't take the VOB's (I know I would have to demux). But when I demuxed with TMPGenc to a file it would take, it was kinda of a pain because you have to merge the VOB files and make them one file, and then get the audio. When I did that the audio was way out of sync.

I then reencoded by using DVD2AVI to create a project and extracting the sound. After the 24 hours it took to reencode it worked but the quality seemed to not be the same so I am trying to avoid that.

Maybe another authoring program will be better, I will look at some different ones. Thanks.

[donpedro]

Forget about all that you did before. Tell me what do you want to do ? What is your goal ? Original one ....

[downer]

My original goal is this:
I have a DVD-R that someone had made for me and it is a concert. They did a bad job setting up the chapters (I want one chapter for every song which would be about 20 and there are only 11 chapters now split up in increments) and didn't have a good menu either just some crappy one.

So basically I want to move around the chapters and add about 9 more. And also create a menu (which i have done). And incorporate this all back onto DVD-R. I don't really want to re-encode the file because of loss of quality and time.

What do you think?

Thanks again...

[donpedro]

Now it's more clear. SpruceUp should be fine.

Now... Since I never done that, sombody else might have better solution for you but here is my sugestion.

1. Extracting mpeg files from VOB (de-multiplex) is not re-encoding. So do not re-encode with DVD2AVI.

2. I don't know how to de-mux, so I am not sure if you need to or how to join VOBs.

3. Try to get some info from here, but ignore everything from step 1 to 6 and look at the end for help with SpruceUp.

[downer]

Thanks alot. Unfortunately I can work in SpruceUp just fine its getting the files de-muxed and merged and then getting everything to sync up.

Thanks again, I appreciate it.