anyone ever heard of VOBTool?

[johnsees]

I've found a lot of mentions on the internet of a program called VOBTool that could extract VOB files from VRO files on RAM disks. Unfortunately, all of them were years old, and the links don't work any more.

VOBTool apparently morphed into VCDGear, and one forum user said (a couple years ago!) that he used VCDGear to extract VOBs from a RAM disk, but I found VCDGear, and all I can get it to do is create mpg files, not vob files.

Does anyone know where to get VOBTool, or know how to use VCDGear to create VOBs? I've been looking for about 4 hours now, and I'm starting to feel like I'm looking for unicorns or leprechauns or something: a lot of people talk about 'em, but I sure can't find 'em!

Thanks a lot.

[gll99]

I have never written a dvd-ram but the first google thread that came up is an older one on doom9

http://forum.doom9.org/archive/index.php/t-15908.html

Further down the page there is a link to a Japanese site

I don't read Japanese either but it had a direct download link to a program vro2vob.

This is a link to the file to save you searching the site
http://www2.mnx.jp/~dle871/vro151.lzh

It's an lzh extension which can be opened with winrar.

I looked at the small program and it's in Japanese but seems easy to understand. Cut and paste the text in an online translator if needed.

I can't say it works but the user who commented on the doom9 site which I linked to above said it worked for him. There are lots of other comments in this Doom9 thread.

It's not exactly what you asked for but I hope it helps.

btw) You've already got the hard part done. MPG files can easily be reauthored into vob files using any number of DVD authoring programs

[redwudz]

VOBBlanker may be what you are looking for. This thread may give you some ideas or info: https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=269373

[gll99]

My next site on the list led to a French site with a link to an English copy of vobtool 0.06 by Dracore. If this is the program you wanted. I opened it and it doesn't even have a search option for vro only vob as input.

Here is the direct link to the zip file anyway.

http://perso.orange.fr/horizonpc/Telecharger/Vobtool006.zip

and this is the site I found it on

http://perso.orange.fr/horizonpc/Preparation/PREPARATION.html

I opened the progs to make sure my virus scanner didn't kick in so they appear clean but as usual run your own scanners when you download any files.

[johnsees]

I have never written a dvd-ram but the first google thread that came up is an older one on doom9

http://forum.doom9.org/archive/index.php/t-15908.html

Further down the page there is a link to a Japanese site

I don't read Japanese either but it had a direct download link to a program vro2vob.

This is a link to the file to save you searching the site
http://www2.mnx.jp/~dle871/vro151.lzh

It's an lzh extension which can be opened with winrar.

I looked at the small program and it's in Japanese but seems easy to understand. Cut and paste the text in an online translator if needed.

I can't say it works but the user who commented on the doom9 site which I linked to above said it worked for him. There are lots of other comments in this Doom9 thread.

It's not exactly what you asked for but I hope it helps.

btw) You've already got the hard part done. MPG files can easily be reauthored into vob files using any number of DVD authoring programs

Actually, that doom9 forum is where I started! I have the Japanese file, but couldn't get it to do anything (I'm pretty new at this stuff.) I didn't try a translator; I'll give that a shot.

Thanks for all the research, even if most of it was duplicate!

[paulkiernan]

After many months I've finally managed to convert VRO (from my Panasonic Es10) to DVD. Furthermore, I've done it using free software, very quickly and without any loss of quality (the last 2 because it is not decompressed/recompressed which a lot of DVD authors do!).

I use free tools MPEG-Streamclip and Ifoedit (both available from this site). Using Streamclip you can edit out commercials, etc., then demux to m2v and ac3 files. Now open Ifoedit and select "Author New DVD", select your two files, and press OK. When completed you can change your aspect ratio to 16:9 if necessary and then burn your DVD.

The results so far have been very good (no audio sync problems, no pixel blocking).

[johnsees]

Thanks, Paul!
I have a question: On the download page, it says the file is 960K, but my download says it's only 379K. I can't run it to try it until I download a newer QuickTime (a major undertaking with my dial-up connection), so I don't know if it works yet. Can you tell me how large your file is? Maybe the MAC version is 960K?

Thanks again.
John

[paulkiernan]

Hi,

My Streamclip executable is 782kB, the total download with documentation is about 1MB - however the quicktime alternative which I had to download to make it all work is a fairly whopping 12.2 MB!

While I haven't tried it (yet!), I believe any tool that will demux your VRO file into separate video and audio files will work. so maybe if you use Ifoedit to do this (maybe after renaming VRO to VOB or mpeg, I'm just guessing now!), it might then be possible to mux them back into DVD format using Ifoedit as I described. It's probably worth trying! Good luck!

[johnsees]

Well, Paul, it works!!!!
Man, I've spent a lot of time looking for a way to do this (for free!), and your way, with Streamclip and Ifoedit, works like a champ!
I admit, I still have a lot of questions about how all this works, but the fact remains, I started out with a DVD-RAM (with VRO file) from my Panasonic E55, and ended up with a DVD+RW (with VOB) and it plays just fine on the Panasonic. Really cool!
If I had a Christmas card list, you'd be on it!

Thanks again.

Thanks to everybody else for their suggestions, too. It's been an education!

[john-q-public]

After many months I've finally managed to convert VRO (from my Panasonic Es10) to DVD....

I hate to resurrect such an old post, but I wanted to thank you for the VRO convert method you posted. I found this thread while doing a Google search for a simple solution, and this is definitely it.

Anyway, thanks again.

John Q. Public

[aryanfor]

I hate to resurrect such an old post, but I wanted to thank you for the VRO convert method you posted. I found this thread while doing a Google search for a simple solution, and this is definitely it.

Anyway, thanks again.

My feelings exactly. but what amazes me that even after 2 years there is no other tool which can do the work of 'vobtool by dracore'

[svaya]

For whom it may concer: for conversions from VRO directly to AVI, you can use the quick solution: AutoGK.