Hey guys, can anyone reccomend a good free or cheap program to convert VOB files to regular AVI? I have this Cartoon me and a friend made on his Mac, but he doesn't have internet access so he can't email it to me. Plus the finished project ended up being like 500 megs, so he burned it to DVD with Imovie. Anyway I take it home and rip it with DVD Decrypter, which is fine, and tried converting it to avi with the RAD video tools. Problem is it makes an avi without any sound. So what I need is something that lets me convert a vob file to avi with sound. I've tried flaskmpeg, and avi.NET but niether of those can open the file for some reason. Anyone have any advice, or can point me to a site with some tutorials (other than doom9, which I've been pouring over for the last two days)? Any help would be appreciated.
VirtualDub, an MP3 codec, and Xvid might be what you need. http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/virtualdub/VirtualDub-1.6.11.zip VirtualDub http://download.divxmovies.com/XviD-1.0.3-20122004.exe Xvid (Windows Binaries, Mac ones there too) http://crustyquinns.com/tech/LAME_ACM_3.96.1.zip LAME http://www.crustyquinns.com/tech/xvid.html < A nice guide on how to use this all, it worked great for me when I ripped movies from PSX games, they had the same sound bug. Hope this helps.
Thanks for the lead, but Virtual dub doesn't read Vob files. Dammit why does this crap have to be so complicated.
http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/stable/VirtualDub-MPEG2.zip Hey, would this work? It say's it supports MPEG2, which I'm guessing VOB falls under. It's a VirtualDub Mod.
Hey guys, found a program called gui4ffmpeg, worked like a charm. Thanks for all your help though. I'll post a link to the video when I get it up.
The term AVI is a bit ambiguous. It is like the RIFF format that wav files are stored in. In general, that means that it can hold uncompressed data, or identify in the file header of a specific codec. That said, you will obviously have to use some sort of compression. When you have a 1GB VOB file, throwing it into an uncompressed AVI would take hundereds of gigs. As long as you are using a modern version of windows (98+), getting a DirectShow based application will be all you really need. Windows comes with DirectShow filters to play DVDs in media player, as well as there being several comercial/free ones out there. I know this isnt a useful post, so I will go and...
No problem, thanks for the info. BTW you can find gui4ffmpeg here: http://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1271288#1271288 Very hassle free and worked the first time like a charm. The video I made is posted in the Thomas with a T thread elsewhere in the off topic forum. Thanks guys.
