Need help in VOB merging

[majiopoppa]

Hello,


I am trying to take 15-20 theatrical trailers from DVD's, and have them burned on to a single DVD-R. I have been successfull in Ripping the trailers alone from the dvd's as VOB files, but how to merge these trailers (only can burn 9 VOB files), into one big VOB file that contains a bunch of trailers, which I can than burn using Gear Pro 6.05. I also do not need a menu, I essentially need these trailers to play one after the other continuously until the dvd finishes, at that point, I can put in another dvd filled with trailers. I have a Sony DRX-500ULX if that helps.

Note: I need to do this in a time effiecent manner, I know how to do this using my regular sonic mydvd software, but in that manner, I would have to encode convert the VOB file into an mpeg, and than just burn the trailers, and in this manner it takes a WHILE to convert the movies, and than burn. (Close to 8 hours for one full single dvd-r).

Any Help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks.

[shiny#3]

use "dvdshrink 3.05" to rip trailers from dvd...and then use the reauthor mode to combine.....refer to manuals at www.dvdshrink.org which will lead you back here to the right thread.....

[WildmanJoe]

You might wish to try vobmerge, a vob file merging program... (duh)

[majiopoppa]

sorry, I forgot to mention, I have already tried to use VOBMERGE, and VOBEDIT. And whenever I combine the videos, the 1st one works fine, but the second one, either is streached out to 10000hours or fast fowards in 2 seconds.

[setarip]

To WildmanJoe

"You might wish to try vobmerge, a vob file merging program... (duh)"


Your "duh" is inappropriate...


That would only be successful if the .VOBs were all from the same original sequence from ONE DVD (e.g. "Identity" DVD - VTS_01_1.VOB, VTS_01_2.VOB, VTS_01_2.VOB, etc.)

[setarip]

To majiopoppa

"I have been successfull in Ripping the trailers alone from the dvd's as VOB files"

Since you've already ripped the individual .VOBs, you can use "TMPGEnc DVD Author" (different than "TMPGEnc") to select (via "Add File", NOT "Add DVD video") each .VOB, in the desired sequence, as a "New track". You can then choose to have a DVD "package" created with or without a menu.



(The reason for selecting each .VOB as a "New track" is that any authoring program will be incapable of DIRECTLY joining [Same track] .VOBs that have differing video and/or audio attributes)

[Lula]

Hi setarip,

I am dealing with this same issue here. I have used DVDShrink with it's reauthor mode and trim (start and end) to make about 15 VOB's from different DVDs . Now I would like to join them into a single VOB .
I understand (as you said) that the individual VOB's will most probably have different audio and video attributes which I suppose will cause problems when joining them.
Should I use TMPGEnc DVD Author as you have advised on your last post or is there a new way of achieving my goal ?
On the second post of this thread a user mentioned using DVShrink to combine all the vob's . Is that possible ?
Thank you .

[setarip]

"Should I use TMPGEnc DVD Author as you have advised on your last post"

Yes...

[Lula]

Hi again setarip,

I have downloaded and installed TMPGEnc DVD Author.
I followed your instructions :

"Since you've already ripped the individual .VOBs, you can use "TMPGEnc DVD Author" (different than "TMPGEnc") to select (via "Add File", NOT "Add DVD video") each .VOB, in the desired sequence, as a "New track". You can then choose to have a DVD "package" created with or without a menu."

But unfortunately it did not create a unique VOB file as I expected. I think that for each "New Track" it creates a new set of VTS_01_XX.VOB ; VTS_02_XX.VOB ; .... files.

Am I missing something ?

[setarip]

YOU said, "I understand (as you said) that the individual VOB's will most probably have different audio and video attributes which I suppose will cause problems when joining them."

So why are you now surprised that each track has a different VOB I.D.?

[Lula]

I also said, on my first post on this thread :

"I am dealing with this same issue here. I have used DVDShrink with it's reauthor mode and trim (start and end) to make about 15 VOB's from different DVDs . Now I would like to join them into a single VOB . "

.... A SINGLE VOB ....

Since you, after reading my first post (I suppose), answered "YES" (I should use TMPGEnc Author) , I expected to have as a result A SINGLE VOB , as that is what I asked for.

Sorry if I am not a "Demigod of Digital Video" like yourself. I thought I could get some help here on the forum .

[ormonde]

"Now I would like to join them into a single VOB ."

I'm curious as to why you would want a "Single" VOB file. Is your overall objective to be able to watch this trailer DVD on a conventional Standalone player? "setarip" is correct in stating that if you have different audio and video attributes that you will not be successful in combining them. You will most likely have to end up "Re-encoding" them so that they all have the same framerate/bitrate and audio (e.g., Ac3, LPCM), in order to combine them all as one single VOB file. Check to see if the originals all have the same attributes. If so, you should be able to combine them using "VOBmerge" after you have encoded them and re-authored them so all the attributes match.

[Lula]

Hi ormonde,

Thank's for trying to help.

I am not an expert , so sorry if I am saying something stupid .... I am trying to reauthor ( using Ulead DVD Workshop 2 ) a DVD. This friend of mine has a lot of commercial DVD's of various singers. He wants me to make him a DVD with selected clips from various of those commercial DVD's. Of course, they have different region code ( some are region 1 and others region 4 ), different video bitrate, and different audio ( LPCM , AC3 ) .
I was able to rip individual clips from the DVD's and save as individual VOB.
I then imported those individual VOB into Ulead DVDWS. In this case, each one becomes a single TITLE. I then tell DVDWS to "once a title reaches it's end , go on and play the next title". That is done through the playlist feature of each button on the menu that I constructed.
I burned the DVD-RW and tested it on my standalone Pioneer DVD player.
When I hit the "next chapter button", as there is only 1 chapter for each title, it skips to the following title ( that is OK for me ).
When I hit the "previous chapter button" , it skips to the beggining of the same title. I have to hit this button twice (and quickly) in order to skip to the previous title. ( I don't know if it will work the same way on other players. Yet to test it).
To avoid this I would like to have a single VOB , and mark 15 chapters on it.

Hope my explanation is understandable and my goal is possible.

[ormonde]

"To avoid this I would like to have a single VOB , and mark 15 chapters on it."

If you are really set on having a single VOB, then you are going to have to re-encode all of the clips so that the framerates/bitrates are uniform. You also would have to make sure that the audio streams are uniform (all would have to be either Ac3 or LPCM). This might involve extracting the audio streams that are differing in some clips and converting them to a format that will be the same for all the clips. This will involve "De-multiplexing", then "Multiplexing" back into the video clips a converted audio stream. To do the encoding, use "TMPGEnc" or ""TMPGEnc Plus" (different than TMPGEnc DVD Author"). Use the template for DVD (NTSC or PAL) from the "Project Wizard". Then use an "Authoring" program of your choice to convert the newly created mpeg-2 files from TMPGEnc into a DVD-related file structure. Then you can effectively use "VOBMerge" to combine all of the VOB files into a single VOB file that you can author again adding your chapter points into your final DVD project.