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solidox
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12. August 2010 @ 10:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have copied the VIDEO_TS folder from 2 DVDs to my computer. It contains BUP, IFO and VOB files.

I also have 3 other VOB files, just the VOB files nothing else along with them.

There are also 2 AVI files.

The total size of all these files is 3.18 GB.

I need to burn all these to a DVD, which needs to be playable on a standard DVD player.

Please guide me on how to go about this. I would like to minimize any loss of video and audio quality if possible.

Thanks,
solidox
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13. August 2010 @ 06:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If I was going to do this I would start by using VOB2MPG to convert the contents of the VIDEO_TS folders to .mpg files.
Load the .mpg files into DVD Flick.
Add the single .VOB files then the .AVI files.
Note, you can rearrange the order as you please.

Under 'Project Settings' > 'Video' > 'Advanced', check 'Copy MPEG-2 Streams'.
This ensures that the files which are DVD compliant (that is they do not need conversion from PAL/NTSC and are the correct resolution) are not re-encoded.

All this supposes that the output will fit on the selected disk size.
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The total size of all these files is 3.18 GB.
The size of the avi files will balloon when converted to DVD format - in these cases it's the running time of the source that matters - not the source file size.
If you get a warning that the output will not fit the selected disk, you can omit a file or select a DL disk as the target.
Instead of burning the disk immediately, you can save it to a folder and open it in DVD Shrink and have it transcode the files to fit a standard disk.

This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 13. August 2010 @ 06:48

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13. August 2010 @ 09:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thanks for the help attar I'll give it a go.

I tried using Windows DVD Maker (built into Windows 7),which accepted the 2 AVI files without any problem. It wouldn't accept the VOB files but I found that if I changed the extension from VOB to AVI, they would load into Windows DVD Maker.

The only problem is that Windows DVD Maker can't read the duration of the videos (only the ones I changed from VOB to AVI) properly. For example one of the videos is 25 minutes but Windows DVD Maker reads it as over 26 hours long.

Another trick I tried was converting the VOB files to AVI using VLC. I created a new profile with the following settings:

Encapsulation: AVI
Video codec: Keep original video track
Audio codec: Keep original audio track

This worked perfectly for one of the VOB files and I was able to load it into Windows DVD Maker without any problem. This method didn't work for the other VOB files.
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13. August 2010 @ 10:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
That's ok if you wish to keep everything as AVI - although I would use a quality app like Auto GK for converting the VOB files and VIDEO_TS folders - the bad part is that if you want everything to end up as DVD format, any VOB that you converted to AVI has to go back through another encoding to get there, with the inevitable quality hit.

The method I outlined only has the AVI files being converted/encoded - the VOB (and .mpg files) are DVD compliant (and as long as they are not changing from NTSC/PAL PAL/NTSC) and take no hit.
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14. August 2010 @ 08:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I recreated IFO files using IFOEdit for 2 of the VOB files.

One file showed a duration of 0 when I opened it up in Windows Media Player, although it plays perfectly.

The other file showed a duration of over 26 hours, it also plays perfectly.

I used VOB2MPG to convert these 2 files into MPG files and the resulting MPG files had the same duration problems.

How can I fix this? I want to use these files in Windows DVD Maker but it won't accept them because of the duration problem.
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14. August 2010 @ 11:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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I want to use these files in Windows DVD Maker
Not familiar with that program;there's a forum here.

http://www.windowsdvdmaker.com/forums/6/ShowForum.aspx
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