Adding prepared DVD media to disc...

fixler wrote on 5/30/2004, 12:49 AM
Hey Guys. I wanted to know if anyone had attempted this or knew how to go about doing it.

I am looking to produce a demo disc (DVD-5) of a few pieces of work I have done over the last year. Unfortunately I don't have the original MPEG-2 or AC-3 files to do so. But I do have the files DVD Architect uses to produce a disc-prepared files...right. Eg. VIDEO_TS folder and AUDIO_TS folder.

I have worked out that I can add the VOB video file from within VIDEO_TS folder but to add the audio file is a bit different as I cant find it! There is nothing in the folder labelled AUDIO_TS and in VIDEO_TS I only have IFO files and BUP files?

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

fixler.

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bStro wrote on 5/31/2004, 12:14 AM
The VOB contains both the video and the audio, but neither Vegas nor DVDA are able to get at the audio portion. You'd have to use another tool to extract the audio or convert the VOB to another format (for example, AVI).

Rob
johnmeyer wrote on 5/31/2004, 10:11 AM
Womble's MPEG Wizard has good tools for this.
bStro wrote on 6/1/2004, 7:30 AM
For extracting the audio or for converting to AVI (or both)? Could you indicate which menu / options to use?

I've been using MPEG Wizard for some time now, but I can't find anyway to export to anything other than MPEG. If I do that, will Vegas read the audio? (Not that I want to edit MPEGs in Vegas. Anymore.)

Rob
johnmeyer wrote on 6/1/2004, 10:08 AM
johnmeyer said: Womble's MPEG Wizard has good tools for this.

Use the "Tools" option in the main menu and select "MPEG Systems Demultiplexer." I just tried this to make sure. I put a DVD that I had authored in DVDA into my DVD drive. I used the Womble demultiplexer, and opened one of the VOB files directly from the disk. Since it is my own VOB file, made in DVDA, there is no protection and it reads just fine. The demultiplexer then splits the video and audio (AC-3) file into two files. I then put these into DVDA 2.0, and it uses them just as it did the original files.

[rant: DVDA should be able to to this directly, but I am through yelling at Sony about this. There competitor (Adobe, with Encore) understands why this is so important, so maybe Sony will wake up.]

If you want to use the files in Vegas, since Vegas doesn't read AC-3 files directly (again, a strange decision by Sony -- technically difficult, but obviously not impossible since DVDA plays AC3 files just fine) you have to convert the audio back to something else. For this, you have to use something like DVD2AVI. See:

VOB files

Extracting Video from a DVD image
bStro wrote on 6/1/2004, 10:26 AM
Oh. Since you followed up to my post, I thought you meant that MPEG Wizard could do either of the things I mentioned (convert to AVI or extract audio to a Vegas-ready file).

DVD2AVI and I have not gotten along in the past, which is why I've been using FlaskMPEG to convert VOB to AVI. I just figured that, if I could get MPEG Wizard to do the same thing, all the better. Man, I love me some Womble MPEG Wizard. Clip out commercials from a one hour MPEG and have a new file in three minutes -- I ask you, how many programs can do that?

Thanks anyhow.

Rob