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travalon

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20. October 2005 @ 00:04

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Hello all,
New to this authoring thing and just got spanked by dvd lab. I started with 6 VOB. files properly numbered Vts_01_1 through Vts_01_6.
Read the manual 5 or 6 times and can now make killer menues with working links and the whole 9 yards. My problem is when I go to compile, lab only uses the first Vob and breaks it into 9 new Vob's equaling .99 gb together. The overall movie should be around 6 gigs b4 shrinking. I have searched and searched as well as tried diff. settings. But nothing seems to work. In shore I cant get dvd lab to join more than one vob file into a movie and don't know why. Any help would cure my recently aquired obsesive compulsive behavior, ANd would be much appreciated.

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vurbal

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22. October 2005 @ 09:53

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When you imported the VOBs did you tell DVD-Lab to Demux them or to use them without demuxing?

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travalon

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22. October 2005 @ 11:36

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I've tried both. it wouldn't Demux them. it says "can't open the file xxx/xxx/xxx/vts_01_1. I havent tried joining without demuxing. I just discovered that option. I'll let you know how it turns out.

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vurbal

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22. October 2005 @ 13:35

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If that doesn't work you might want to try demuxing with DGIndex and using those files as assets in DVD-Lab.

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travalon

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22. October 2005 @ 18:36

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Well it sort of worked. It didn't join them in numerical order. I've done it twice now and got 2 diff compilations. Trying a 3rd time with newly imported files as I'm typing this.

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travalon

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28. October 2005 @ 12:00

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Didn't work. I guess because they all have their own time code that starts with 00:00:00 it confuses the proggy. It just sort of meshes them all together using the first parts of each clip first then the second then the third etc... Any way to lose/edit the time code?

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vurbal

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29. October 2005 @ 04:57

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If the VOB files are actually separate titlesets that you've just renamed to make 1 big titleset I'd recommend using an MPEG editor to join them instead. You can get a free trial of Womble MPEG-VCR, Womble Video Wizard, or VideoReDo - any of which should be able to do this for you. There's also a free MPEG editor called Cutterman, but it requires that you demux the files first, and if this is a 1-time thing you may just want to use a trial version of one of the commercial programs.

Once you've joined the VOB files with one of those programs save the output as elementary streams (separate video and audio files) and use those as assets in DVD-Lab. You could save them as a single MPEG file, but DVD-Lab is a lot more reliable if you start with elementary streams instead of a muxed file.

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travalon

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29. October 2005 @ 09:39

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Is there a free/shareware demuxin' proggy out there? It is a one time thing till the next time. Appreciate the help.

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