Re: Reassemble VOB, IFO & BUP files into an AVI and/or burn to DVD-r? - no audio

On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 02:20:30 GMT, in 'rec.video.desktop',
in article <Re: Reassemble VOB, IFO & BUP files into an AVI and/or
burn to DVD-r? - no audio>,
VideoNewbee <newbee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 19:19:29 -0500, "Ken Maltby"
<kmaltby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"VideoNewbee" <newbee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pjbka2ph5a936oidi4ijirc5ku80dunrqh@xxxxxxxxxx
I've downloaded the contents of a DVD - VOB, IFO and BUP files - to my
hd (WinXP). Now what? I'm used to one large AVI file that plays in
Windows Media Player. Two questions:

1) How can I reassemble these files into an AVI file, for viewing on
computer? (most AVI movie files are about 700MB. Hopefully the 3.78GB
VOB's can reduce to about 700MB)

2) How can I burn these files onto a DVD-r?

My video software tools are limited: Sonic My DVD, TMPGenc 3.0 XPress,
Windows Movie Maker.

Am fairly new to video files, and am looking for specific
software/procedural suggestions. Thanks very much.


Ok, you have what you need. Use the "Source Wizard" in
TMPGenc 3.0 XPress and check "Add source from a DVD-Video".
Make a VIDEO_TS folder and put the IFO, BUP and VOB files into
it. Then you can find that folder after you click the "Next..." button.

You can now select a title to encode to a smaller .avi file. You
will probably only have the one title but if there are more than one
select the one with the language and material you want.

On the next window you can have the encoder "Import chapters
as key frame", if you want. (Usually a good idea.) Since you
already have the title on your hard drive there is no need to check
the "Copy selected titles to the hard disk drive" box.

Once you have your title in the "Set Source" tab's window, you
can apply any "Cut-edit..." or "Filters..." you want, or not.

Now on to the "Set Output" tab. You haven't made any custom
templates, so select the "AVI Output" Standard template.

Read the information that pops up and then click on the "Select"
button. This is where you can set the compression formats for
the output file. The default for both video and audio output is
"Uncompressed", and the whole point of this is to compress the
file.

( You might want to add some codec to your system, for the
file sizes you seem to be looking for you might want to get the
free XviD codec or the DivX codec. If you have a reasonably
powerful system you might get the free x264 codec as well.
You might want to consider "VLC" and "Media Player Classic"
for playback, while you are downloading.)

For now try this;
Video output: "Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V2" with
Settings; "Compression Control" = 75
"Data Rate (Kilobits per Second)" = 1045

Audio output: "Windows Media Audio V2, 64 kbps, 32 kHz,
stereo" (selecting from the "Settings" button's pages.)

Now all that is left is to go to the "Encode" tab.

Setup where you want the .avi file to be made. (It is a good practice
to have the output of a process go to a different drive from the one
the files that input to the process are on.)
You might also want to go to the "Encoder setting" Tab and set the
"Task priority".

Click "Start Output" and you will have your smaller .avi that will
play on your media player. Now this is going to take longer to
encode than it takes to play the movie, so be prepared to wait.

That takes care of making your one long AVI.

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To author a new DVD:

You could use your "Sonic My DVD", but I feel that suggesting
that is a form of torture not allowed under the Geneva Convention.

You would be much better off trying "TMPGEnc DVD Author"
and using its "Add DVD video..." button. (It works much the same
as the "Source Wizard" described above.) You should be able to
find a trial download of TDA.

Luck;
Ken

P.S. Ignore PT & Dicky, they believe all AVI is DV-AVI and
comes over firewire from their camcorders. To them MPEG is
that "lossey" format that ruins video.


Thanks to everyone for your suggestions, and especially Ken - your
directions were perfect.

TMPGenc3.0 Xpress created an AVI, and the video looks excellent, but
there is no audio.

The first sign of this problem was right after Media Import Selection,
when TMPGenc3.0 Xpress said:

The selected DVD contains an audio track which cannot be decoded.
The decodable audio format are as below.
MPEG-Audio, Linear PCM
Other formats are not recognized.

Audio codecs listed by TMPGenc are:

CCITT A-Law
CCITT u-Law
DSP Group Truespeech (TM)
GSM 6.10
IMA ADPCM
Microsoft ADPCM
Microsoft G.723.1
MPEG Layer-3

Is it possible for me to add audio codecs that would allow the audio
decoding? If so, where would I find them?


I've been too busy lately to follow this thread closely, but it sounds
to me as though what you may need is simply an ACM (Audio Compression
Manager) compatible Dolby Digital AC-3 decoding codec such as this
free one:

http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/AC3ACM/

Follow the simple installation instructions in the ReadMe.txt file
included within the downloaded .zip archive.

I can't guarantee that installing this codec will solve the problem,
but I think that it's worth a try and I'd love to know about the
results whether it works or not.


You mentioned XviD codec, the DivX codec, and the x264 codec (yes, my
system is a powerful Dell 8400 Dimension XP 3.4 GHz, 2 GB RAM). I've
already added XviD and DivX, so the codecs listed by TMPGenc are:

DivX 6.2.5 Codec (2 Logical CPU's)
Indeo video 5.10
Intel Indeo Video 4.5
Microsoft Video 1
XviD MPEG-4 Codec
Uncompressed RGB

Actually I'm very close to achieving my objective. I just need to find
a way to decode the audio.

All suggestions will be appreciated.

--
Frank, Independent Consultant, New York, NY
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