MPEG Mediator: VOB limitations
 

I tried to give MPEG Mediator 1.4. Right away I had a problem.
See, I Smartripped a DVD to separate chapter VOBs and I got 37 VOBs out of that. I did that so I can create 2 D2Vs, chapters 1 - 19 and the other 20 - 37. Mediator can't select ALL of them for me to get the full movie wav file.

Is MPEG Mediator so limited :?: Also do I have select the each vob in sequence? I didn't try to see what would happen if I selected 1,5,3,7 and I didn't see any auto sort.

Re: VOB limit
 

Select them individually by holding down "CTRL" + click. Also, to select all, you select them in "reverse" order an then it sorts them in ascending order.

-kwag

kwag,

That's the first thing I did but the selection doesn't hold. When I press "open", the vobs get deselected.

The problem is indeed some limitation of MPEG Mediator. The list of files that can be imported as a single stream is limited to 16. My assumption when coding this was that every vob of a movie (except the last of course) would be 1 gig in size. So 16 files in this case would mean a *very* long movie. Obviously I was wrong....



mediator



PS and OT: MPEG Mediator is going to Sourceforge in the near future, so it will be easier for other people to join the development.

Hello mediator,

Yeeah :lol: sourceforge.net. That's great :D , so many people can get their teeth into the code. Count me on :wink:

-kwag

Hey Kwag,

Kwag wrote:
Sometimes Mpeg Mediator extracts the wav out of sync. Maybe some
answers could be found when digging into the code. :)

-black prince

I gave up on Mediator 1.4 but went back to check it out though. I previously said that Mediator couldn't select all my 37 VOBs and that's still true if i selected them all at one time. After playing with it for about 5 minutes, I got the work around. Mediator can only open up 9 VOBs at a time, just like DVD2AVI.

When Smartripper extracted to separate VOBs, it puts the chapter number at the end of the file name by default, eg. vob_1, vob_2, vob_3. Anyway, to make it easier for me, I went and renamed the VOBs 1-9 as vob_01, vob_02,vob_03,... Doing that way, it'll be easier to select them in Mediator. I just don't like having to select a bunch of VOBs in reverse order. By doing this, all the VOBs are numerically in sequence.

As I said earlier, I can only select 9 VOBs max so the pattern of opening is...

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19
20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29
30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37

Whew...all that work just for that project.