joining vob files

[rallynavvie]

I'm trying to find a program that joins VOB files. Here's why:

When I started this project I used SmartRipper to rip the episodes from the DVD and they came off in single VOB files. I then used DVD2AVI to extract the audio track I wanted to AC3 and used TMPGEnc to reencode to MPEG2 for my own DVD compilation. When I did this from a single VOB file I used the VOB as video source for TMPGEnc and the AC3 file as audio source and the resulting MPEGs were gorgeous.

Later in the DVD set the episodes came off as 2 VOBs instead of just the one (i.e. episodex_1.vob, episodex_2.vob). I used DVD2AVI to again extract the audio track I wanted. But now the AC3 file I extract spans both VOBs (or at least AFAIK) and I can't use both VOBs as video source in TMPGEnc. Big deal, I'll use the d2v file DVD2AVI creates as the video source as that uses both VOBs as source, right? Well it worked but the resulting MPEG2 looks terrible compared to the ones I did running right from the VOB. It looks almost like interlacing on the video file, lots of horizontal lines when there is movement in the segment. I tried several different TMPGEnc settings to see if it would help (3:2 pulldown, 2-pass VBR, motion search quality).

My solutions now are to join the 2 VOBs into a single one so that I may work from it as I did the earlier episodes or find what I'm doing wrong with DVD2AVI that creates such a wretched d2v file for me to work with. I downloaded VobEdit but its join function outputs as many VOBs as I input (I assume it's meant to join them in preparation for DVD folders?). Otherwise is there a video setting I'm supposed to use in DVD2AVI for this? Source and final format are both NTSC DVD.

~Garrett

[jfebus]

Hi Garrett,

To join VOBS these are the step I am following ( there must be a faster way but this is all I know! )

1) place all the vob in a directory
2) run ifoedit - create ifo files
3) run dvd2one

and you will get a burnable directory with vobs.

Regards,

[rallynavvie]

I'm actually using DVDDecrypter to rip with and it has the option to join VOBs as it rips. I'm sure there's a setting for that in SmartRipper too but I'm too lazy to look