Is there any way to convert a VOB to 1 avi?

[Dragonsf]

I own a DVD with more than 2 audio tracks.One is English 5.1, the other is German 2.0.What I tried to do is:

1. Extract the audio out of vob -> en and de ac3 files
2. Get the de 2CH and replace the center and LFE track in en ac3
3. Remix all new tracks to new ac3.
4. Extract avi from VOB
5. Recompress avi to m2v (as the video was 6GB I had to reduce the size)
6. Author new DVD with new m2v and new ac3.
7. Burn the DVD.

I used DVDDecrypter for 1, BeSweet for 2, SoftEncode for 3.

For 4 I only found DVD2avi, but this SW produced 13 avi (2GB each).I had to join them with VDup.

And here is my question:Is there any SW, which will make me one (1) avi with the correct size?Compression should be DV.

For 5 i used CCE, 6 done with ifoedit and 7 with ImgTools.

I did it not only to get a better Audio sound but also as proof of feasibilty.

[nufan292]

Try using smartripper instead of dvddecrypter, and demux the audio and video, should get ac3 and m2v (or some video file) and use dvd2avi and then use avisynth with cce. I'm not an expert at this, but I hope this help, if there is anything wrong with it, I'm sure someone will correct me. Best of luck.

[Dragonsf]

I tried smartripper, but smartripper could only rip one vob by one.I got 6 m2v this way, which is not better than 13 avis.
I once tried avisynth, but CCE didn't like it, i.e. doesn't want to convert avisnyth 'sign post'.

[northcat_8]

Try using cladXP. Then DVD2AVI, then TMPGenc. Make sure you have the vfapi codec installed.

[Dragonsf]

That's not the point.tmpgenc would work directly with DVD2AVI (as it can open frameserved avis).Looks like there is no easy way to get one big avi out of the DVD.Thanks anyway.

[nufan292]

One of the vob tools software could combine vobs to make one large one, I'm sorry that I don't know the name of the software. You might be able to find it in the tools section of this site, or maybe in doom9.org's download section. Sorry the first suggestion I made did not work out for you.

[Dragonsf]

I found something called vobedit at doom9.Is that the SW?I'll give it a try!

[jarvis1781]

the easiest way to get one big avi file is to use a program called FlaskMPEG

it will convert the entire dvd to avi for you

[VidHack]

DUDE, dont kill yourself, use DVD2SVCD in DVD mode to do all of the Video transcoding/AC3 ripping for you, then take the AC3 files and demux the tracks(Using BeSweet to split into WAVs), then reAuthor it however you want, man, 13 avi''s, you've got to learn how to frameserve properly.

VidHack

[Dragonsf]

vobedit does the trick:convert all the vobs to one m2v.
OK, I'm willing to learn the trick:tell me how to frameserve to cce?
I can frameserve to tmpgenc, no problem there.

[SaSi]

I tried smartripper, but smartripper could only rip one vob by one.I got 6 m2v this way, which is not better than 13 avis.
I once tried avisynth, but CCE didn't like it, i.e. doesn't want to convert avisnyth 'sign post'.

You can use smartripper to rip all the VOBs into a single m2v or vob. Just go to settings and select single file and put 9000 as the file limit.

[SaSi]

the easiest way to get one big avi file is to use a program called FlaskMPEG

it will convert the entire dvd to avi for you

I used to do this. Encode the complete movie in DivX or huffyuv and then open it with VirtualDUB (if I needed to do anything on it) and then to Tmpgenc.

However, this process is slow. FlaskMPEG will not do better than 19~20 fps on a P4/2.67 machine and VirtualDUB will not do better than 30fps or so.

The fastest way to re-encode the original movie is to use smartripper to extract it to a single VOB or m2v (see my previous response) and then open it with MainConcept. Doing only video stream compression, Mainconcept does almost 42fps and an average movie (90~110 min) finishes in an hour.

[DJRumpy]

Extract the VOB's using a ripper of your choice. Doesn't matter which. Open VOB's in DVD2AVI (freeware..tools section). If your not familiar with DVD2AVI, read the guides. You should know what FIELD OPERATION setting to use (Force Film, or None). Set your Audio to:

AUDIO | DOLBY DIGITAL | DEMUX
AUDIO | TRACK NUMBER | {track you want demuxed..usually 1}
AUDIO | CHANNEL FORMAT | AUTO SELECT

Select FILE | SAVE PROJECT. Save with any filename, and a D2V extension (i.e. project.D2V ). This step takes about 5 minutes give or take. You will get a D2V file, and your demuxed AC3 audio.

Either convert this D2V file using VFAPI Converter (find it in the tools section..takes about a minute), or MPEG2DEC, and AVISynth (fastest). MPEG2DEC, and AVISynth are also found in the TOOLS section. Drop the VFAPI pseudo file, or AVISynth AVS script into encoder of choice.

[bek]

I'm really new to dvd authoring, but I'd definitely go Smartripper if you need to combine all vobs into one. Makes it REALLY easy... just select the max filesize and you end up with 1 vob instead of 16 (the one I'm doing right now).

-Brian

[DJRumpy]

That may not be a good option. Dragonsf hasn't filled out the hardware profile, but if he/she is on Fat32, they could easily hit the 4GB file size limit. It's also a waste of time, and disk space, creating a 1 new VOB from multiple smaller VOB's, unless it is small enough to fit on a single DVD-R (unlikely these days, but it could happen). If it is too large (likely), you would still end up re-encoding to reduce the output to fit on a single layer DVD-R.

DVD2AVI automatically combines your VOB's into a single stream, and produces an AVI, or a Project File, which can be read by any encoder.

[bek]

Thanks for straightening me out, DJR. I am still learning.

Since we're on the topic, do you happen to know how I can remove the chapter stops from a VOB? Somebody recorded a nice video for me, but the chapter stops are every 3 minutes, and I'd like to put them in custom places.

A guide or instructions would be accepted graciously.

Thanks,
Brian

[DJRumpy]

It would depend on how it was encoded. It sounds like your video actually stops every 3 minutes? It it did, I would suspect they used a bunch of small clips, rather than using one big clip. If that's the case, you would need to rip the video, and either attempt to join the MPEG's, or just frameserve them using AVISynth. With AVISynth, you can seemlessly splice video material.

First things first though. Does it actually stop every 3 minutes? Also, what format is it in (DVD, VCD, CVD/SVCD)?

[bek]

No, doesn't stop. It's already in the DVD format, with AC3 sound. Someone used a tabletop DVD Recorder to record it.

When I load the VOB into my authoring software, it sees that there are 16 chapters in title 1, and 5 chapters in title 2.

I'd like to get rid of those chapter stops entirely, and put them in logical places. What software would I use for my first step? It looks as if my authoring software (Movie Factory 2) won't allow me to do that.

[DJRumpy]

I would hope that your authoring software allows you to remove chapter points. If it doesn't, you can try a more manual method to strip out the info.

Just rip the VOB's. Get FileMerger from doom9 (www.doom9.org) from the VOB Tools section ( Download | VOB Tools ). Use it to join all of your VOB's into one big VOB. Use TMPGenc to demux into seperate m2v, and AC3/MP2 file ( FILE | MPEG TOOLS | DEMULTIPLEX ).

Open the M2V, and audio file in any authoring program, and put the chapter points where you want them. Burn and serve...

[bek]

This is freaky, but it looks like Movie Factory 2 saw each chapter as a separate clip. It saved each of them out as separate MPG files. Is there a tool I can use to combine these separate MPGs into one file?

[DJRumpy]

The same tool I just mentioned above should work. I don't they they host it here. See my above post.