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Originally Posted by MusicInTheStars
Okay, so I have a ton of home movies that had at one point been turned into DVD's, and then were ripped from those DVD's to an old hard drive.
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I know what you mean but you don't mean "rip", which has more specific meaning than just "copy". If it meant copy alone, you could say something like "I used my Xerox machine to rip 14 copies of a document," LOL!
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Originally Posted by MusicInTheStars
I'm not above creating new menus if I can find software to handle this. To date, the only software I've found that will allow me to turn these VOB files into a DVD is WinX DVD Author, but it compresses the video HORRIBLY. (It takes what was about 4 gb worth of video files and compresses it to just about a gigabyte.) I also have Pinnacle 14, which I thought I could use to do this, but that will not read the VOB files.
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WinX DVD Author = no.
Pinnacle: I don't understand why people use it.
You'll have to create new menus and VIDEO_TS folders for DVD.
Womble will do it, but its specs don't list VOB as an input. Probably it would accept VOB anyway.
DVDVOB2MPG is free software that will repackage VOB into an MPG container without re-encoding. But it doesn't do anything else, no menus, no DVD structure, etc. And I wasn't always pleased with the results, it's as if DVDVOB2MPG screwed up some file header information somehow on some files.
TMPGEnc Authoring Works doesn't list VOB as input by name, but you can import VOB "as-is" by specifying "all files" as the input format. Hasn't failed me so far, and is a full-fledged smart renderer (if you need to edit) and authoring/burning app. Free trial available.
VideoRedo TV Suite 5 is a similar app and has no problem importing VOB. Clean results, and can create basic menus and VIDEO_TS folders as well as burn the results. I seem to get somewhat cleaner output and playback with VideoReDo. Smartt renders too if you need it and has a free trial.
Frankly, the last time I had to do this I used the free DGIndex utility in
DGMPGdec to make pristine and copy-perfect demuxed versions of VOBs (demux means separating the VOB into an m2v elementary video stream which is MPEG video and a separate elementary AC3 audio stream). Almost any authoring program will accept those files, including TMPGEnc and VideoReDo. Pinnacle might balk at this, as it doesn't do anything really well anyway. As far as I know, demuxing properly is the most accurate way to reorganize a VOB.
PgcDemux is a similar utility but DGIndex is the popular standard. DGIndex is a standalone utlity needing no installer.