VOB to MPEG Convertion

[yogiman_uk]

Hi Everyone

For those who have missed the previous post about converting .VOB to MPEG without loosing so much quality, I have put together a Blog! to aid in explaining how to, and what does and does not work.

These files are great played back through MP and any of my streaming media boxes. The quality is good, dolby 5.1 or DTS audio is retained and it's quick. Note it does not work on all movies. However so far it works on a lot more movies than those it doesn't.

Check out the site at: http://vob2mpeg.blogspot.com/

Hope you don't mind me posting this here, I want to help MP users, but I don't want to swamp the MP forum with off topic posts

Cheers


Yogiman!

[macd]

I don't get it ...
Vob = Mpg
Just rename .vob to .mpg

[yogiman_uk]

Originally Posted by macd

I don't get it ...
Vob = Mpg
Just rename .vob to .mpg

Nothing to get really, visit the link. You compress the original DVD to 1 large .vob thus you have a continuous film and not 1GB chunks, then you rename it to filmname.mpg, the quality is good dependant on compression and the file size is about half that of the original DVD on maximum compression using DVDShrink. It's quick and dirty but if you look at the site you will see it works on a lot of films! it also doesn't work on quite a few but I am working on a way around that!

Cheers


Yogiman!

[yogiman_uk]

You may find this information useful, taken from wikipedia:-

"A VOB file (DVD-Video Object or Versioned Object Base) is a container format contained in DVD-Video media. It contains the actual Video, Audio, Subtitle (VobSubs) and Menu contents in stream form.

VOB files are encoded very much like standard MPEG-2 files. If the extension is changed from .vob to .mpg or .mpeg, the file is still readable and continues to hold all information, although most MPEG-2-capable players don't support subtitle tracks."

Original Article:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vob