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I found several VOB to AVI conversion programs thru a google search. Haven't tried any before, however.
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Fanedit said:Anybody have any experience with this or any suggestions? Thanks.
Captain Khajiit said:Yes. You might demux the DVD with PGCDemux -- see the FAQ of my guide -- and then remux the video and audio to something that your player might recognize e.g. to a .ts with tsmuxer. Be aware that if your player supports only FAT32, there is a 4GB limit, so you might have to split the output.
wabid said:Does your DVD player play mpeg2 files? Instead of demuxing and remuxing, you can do everything at once with http://www.videohelp.com/tools/VOBMerge
The PGCDemux/ImagoMPEG route is unnecessarily complicated. There is no reason to demux before you mux. It just adds an extra step and makes the process take twice as long.
However, as Captain Khajiit brought up, if you are using fat32 you might have problems. Oddly enough my bluray player ONLY supports ntfs, not fat32. But if your DVD player only supports fat32, I would go with his other suggestion and just burn the discs.
copy /b VTS_02_0.VOB + VTS_02_1.VOB + VTS_02_1.VOB
wabid said:VOBMerge works just fine for stitching split files together and renaming vobs to mpeg. Yes I said renaming, because in truth VOB is a subset of MPG. You can just rename VOB files to MPG and they will work just fine.
wabid said:The PGCDemux/ImagoMPEG route is unnecessarily complicated. There is no reason to demux before you mux. It just adds an extra step and makes the process take twice as long.
ThrowgnCpr said:Not completely true, but pretty close. They are both mpg stream containers. VOB caries some different information in the headers. In many instances, you can probably get away with simply remaining the extension, but I would probably demux and remux into the container the correct way.
If you are looking for a one-click solution, there are still other options. VOB2MPG does both steps (demux and remux) with one click. Note, I had issues with the newer version (3.0 on). It was buggy, but the older version (2.5) was stable, albeit somewhat slower. This is freeware, and the link above takes you to the download page at videohelp.
Captain Khajiit said:The reason I suggested demuxing the DVD was so that he could use tsmuxer to give him a .ts, which is very well supported by media players of all descriptions: I've come across those that won't play an .mpg. Moreover, most of the DVD/BD players I've come across have been FAT32, and I thought it likely that (had he chosen to do this) the .ts would exceed 4GB and require splitting, which tsmuxer could also have done.
It is interesting that your BD player supports NTFS though. I wish all of them did.
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